Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in BIological Informatics for FY 2006

2006财年生物信息学博士后研究奖学金

• 批准号: 0532935
• 负责人: Ellen Damschen
• 金额: $ 12万
• 依托单位: Damschen Ellen I
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Fellowship Award
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-11-01 至 2007-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0532935&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Postdoctoral; Research; Fellowship; BIological; Informatics

This action funds an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biological Informatics for FY 2006. The fellowship supports research and training at the postdoctoral level at the intersection of biology and the informational, computational, mathematical, and statistical sciences. The goal of the fellowship is to provide training to a young scientist in preparation for a career in biological informatics in which research and education will be integrated. There is an increasing need for training in biological informatics at all occupational levels, and it is expected that Fellows trained through these fellowships will play important roles in training the future workforce.The research and training plan for this fellowship is entitled "Impacts of kelp forest patchiness on species diversity and implications for reserve design." Understanding the impact of spatial habitat structure on species distributions and diversity is a central question for understanding mechanisms of diversity and proposing conservation strategies in both terrestrial and marine systems. This research uses tools from terrestrial landscape ecology to determine how habitat shape and connectivity affect species diversity and composition in kelp forests, if life history traits can predict organism response, and if there are generalities between marine and terrestrial community responses.This postdoctoral fellowship experience will allow the Fellow to learn the latest bioinformatics tools and further her training in spatial statistics and computational biology. In addition, the fellowship will provide experience for communicating the findings with policy makers and the general public.

这项行动资助了 2006 财年 NSF 生物信息学博士后研究奖学金。该奖学金支持生物学与信息、计算、数学和统计科学交叉领域的博士后水平的研究和培训。该奖学金的目标是为年轻科学家提供培训，为将研究和教育融为一体的生物信息学职业做好准备。所有职业级别对生物信息学培训的需求日益增加，预计通过这些奖学金培训的研究员将在培训未来的劳动力方面发挥重要作用。该奖学金的研究和培训计划的标题是“海带森林斑块性对物种多样性的影响以及对保护区设计的影响”。 了解空间栖息地结构对物种分布和多样性的影响是理解陆地和海洋系统多样性机制和提出保护策略的核心问题。 这项研究使用陆地景观生态学的工具来确定栖息地的形状和连通性如何影响海带森林中的物种多样性和组成，生活史特征是否可以预测生物体反应，以及海洋和陆地群落反应之间是否存在共性。这次博士后研究金经历将使研究员能够学习最新的生物信息学工具，并进一步接受空间统计和计算生物学方面的培训。 此外，该奖学金还将提供与政策制定者和公众交流研究结果的经验。