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: 0532847
• 负责人: Ethan White
• 金额: $ 12万
• 依托单位: White Ethan P
• 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=0532847&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 "Describing and understanding geographic patterns of the distribution of body sizes of individuals in ecological communities." The research is quantifying the patterns of, and processes underlying, continental-scale variability in community body size patterns. It integrates data on the distribution of body sizes of individuals (or size-spectrum) from three continental scale datasets with a suite ofenvironmental and ecological variables in order to describe and understand the form of the distribution.The training goals include learning to develop a research program that applies quantitative methods to understand ecological systems in a manner that is both rigorous and accessible to a broad scientific audience. Specific skills to be gained include sophisticated GIS and statistical modeling, probability density estimation, and computational simulation and randomization techniques.

本行动资助2006年度美国国家科学基金会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研究和培训。该研究金的目标是向青年科学家提供培训，为从事生物信息学方面的研究和教育相结合的职业做准备。越来越需要在所有职业级别上进行生物信息学培训，预期通过这些研究金培训的研究员将在培训未来工作人员方面发挥重要作用。这项研究和培训计划的题目是“描述和理解生态群落中个体体型分布的地理模式”。该研究正在量化群落大小模式的大陆尺度变异性的模式和潜在过程。它将来自三个大陆尺度数据集的个体体型分布（或体型谱）数据与一套环境和生态变量相结合，以描述和理解分布的形式。培训目标包括学习制定一项研究计划，该计划应用定量方法以一种既严格又易于广泛科学受众接受的方式来理解生态系统。具体技能包括复杂的地理信息系统和统计建模，概率密度估计，计算模拟和随机化技术。