Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biological Informatic FY 2006

2006财年生物信息学博士后研究奖学金

• 批准号: 0630709
• 负责人: Sadie Ryan
• 金额: $ 12万
• 依托单位: Ryan, Sadie J
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Fellowship Award
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-10-01 至 2009-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0630709&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Postdoctoral; Research; Fellowship; Biological; Informatic

Project Title: "Modeling the human-wildlife interface: primate ecology and the disease spillover boundary" This project is awarded under the Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biological Informatics Program for 2006. The goal of this project is to develop a spatially explicit, agent-based framework of interactions between human mediated landscape change and primate social ecology. This will provide a means to assess impacts on primate population from nutritional stress induced by social disruption and susceptibility to disease, especially novel pathogens. The model framework will establish a tool to assess the human-wildlife interface in systems where the large scale impacts of interaction between the landscape and individual behaviors of humans and wildlife may be poorly understood. This project will make use of a very well studied taxon, primates, and a data rich study system in and around Kibale National Park, Uganda. The agent-based framework will allow for interactions of different agents in the model at different scales, both temporal and spatial. The PI will carry out the work at Stanford University under the advice of James Jones. The PI's background in ecology and GIS-based analyses will be expanded to agent-based computational frameworks, and will contribute to a academic career goal supporting a computational approach to conservation ecology and mathematical biology. Understanding spatial dynamics of complex ecosystems in which humans are actors is fundamental to that goal. This training will reinforce the links between quantitative ecology and empirical data manipulation which can be used to answer important questions in conservation ecology.

项目名称：“人类-野生动物界面建模：灵长类动物生态学和疾病溢出边界”，是2006年中国生物信息学博士后研究资助项目。该项目的目标是建立一个空间明确的、基于主体的框架，研究人类介导的景观变化与灵长类动物社会生态之间的相互作用。这将提供一种方法来评估由社会分裂和对疾病，特别是新型病原体的易感性引起的营养压力对灵长类动物种群的影响。该模型框架将建立一种工具，在景观和人类与野生动物个体行为之间相互作用的大规模影响可能知之甚少的系统中，评估人类与野生动物的界面。该项目将利用乌干达Kibale国家公园及其周边地区一个研究得非常充分的分类群、灵长类动物和一个数据丰富的研究系统。基于代理的框架将允许模型中不同代理在不同尺度（时间和空间）上的交互。PI将在詹姆斯·琼斯的建议下在斯坦福大学开展这项工作。PI在生态学和基于gis的分析方面的背景将扩展到基于代理的计算框架，并将有助于支持保护生态学和数学生物学的计算方法的学术职业目标。理解以人类为主体的复杂生态系统的空间动态是实现这一目标的基础。这一培训将加强定量生态学和经验数据操作之间的联系，可用于回答保护生态学中的重要问题。