Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biological Informatics for FY 2006

这一行动为NSF 2006财年生物信息学博士后研究奖学金提供了资金。该奖学金支持生物学与信息科学、计算科学、数学科学和统计科学交叉的博士后水平的研究和培训。该研究金的目标是为一名青年科学家提供培训，为从事生物信息学的职业做准备，在生物信息学中将把研究和教育结合起来。对所有职业级别的生物信息学培训的需求日益增加，预计通过这些研究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名为“群居昆虫社会特征的进化遗传学”。群居昆虫是社会进化的模型系统，但它们的全部群居复杂性还没有被纳入遗传模型。该项目使用蜜蜂系统，集成了大量的遗传和行为数据，并开发了新的进化遗传模型，以研究社会变迁背后的遗传结构的进化重要性。培训目标是学习新的方法：研究特征的分子遗传学基础，开发分析和模拟进化遗传模型，并集成可用于蜜蜂等模型遗传系统的基因组和基因表达数据。这次培训将帮助这位研究员实现他的职业目标，即利用群居昆虫来研究社会进化。

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 "The evolutionary genetics of social traits in social insects." Social insects are model systems for social evolution, but their full social complexity has not been incorporated into genetic models. This project uses a honeybee system, integrating extensive genetic and behavior data and developing new evolutionary genetic models, to study the evolutionary importance of the genetic architecture underlying social traits.The training goals are to learn new approaches to: study the molecular genetic basis of traits, develop analytic and simulation evolutionary genetic models, and integrate genomic and gene expression data available for model genetic systems such as the honeybee. This training will help the Fellow achieve his career goals of using social insects to study social evolution.