Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Microbial Biology for FY 2004

这一行动为2004财政年度的NSF微生物生物学博士后奖学金提供资金。 该研究金支持关于原生动物、微藻、真菌、古菌、细菌和病毒物种的基础生物学的培训和研究，这些物种通常不被视为模式生物。此外，它为最近的博士生获得微生物生物学的额外培训提供了机会，在既定科学家的赞助下获得研究经验，并拓宽他们的科学视野，超越本科和研究生培训期间的研究经验。 这些研究金的目的还在于协助新科学家指导其研究工作，使其跨越传统学科，利用独特的研究资源、地点和设施，包括国外的地点，研究和培训计划的标题是“利用分子工具评估河口的固氮作用。“这项研究旨在了解固氮细菌如何对增加的氮负荷作出反应。 它探讨了在微生物水平上对氮处理的基本控制。 一套分子工具，包括克隆文库的构建，DGGE和RT-PCR正在被用来解决与固氮细菌在温带盐沼和海草床的氮循环中发挥的作用有关的问题。

This action funds an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Microbial biology for FY2004. The fellowship supports training and research on the basic biology of protozoan, microalgal, fungal, archaeal, bacterial and viral species that are not generally considered to be model organisms. Further, it provides opportunities for recent doctoral recipients to obtain additional training in microbial biology, to gain research experience under the sponsorship of established scientists, and to broaden their scientific horizons beyond the research experiences during the undergraduate and graduate training. These fellowships are further designed to assist new scientists to direct their research efforts across traditional disciplinary lines and to avail themselves of unique research resources, sites, and facilities, including foreign locations.The research and training plan is entitled "Assessing nitrogen fixation in estuaries using molecular tools." This research seeks to understand how nitrogen-fixing bacteria respond to increasing nitrogen loads. It explores the fundamental controls on nitrogen processing at the microbial level. A suite of molecular tools including construction of clone libraries, DGGE, and RT-PCR are being used to address questions that relate to the role nitrogen fixing bacteria play in the nitrogen cycling of temperate salt marshes and sea grass beds.