DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Predation Behavior of Bacteriovorax and Bacteriophages Against Vibrio spp. - Linking Predatory Traits with Systematics of the Bacterial Predator

论文研究：噬菌体和噬菌体对弧菌的捕食行为。

• 批准号: 1110620
• 负责人: Henry Williams
• 金额: $ 1.4万
• 依托单位: Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-07-01 至 2013-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1110620&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: DISSERTATION; RESEARCH; Predation; Behavior; Bacteriovorax

Bacteriovorax are unique predatory bacteria with potential roles and benefits as antibacterial agents to mitigate certain bacterial diseases in plants and animals, controlling bacterial populations and recycling nutrients in the environment. These bacteria may also be an important unexploited source of new novel therapeutic compounds. To realize the full potential of Bacteriovorax, it is necessary to better understand their genome structure and to bring order to the system of classifying and naming them. The purpose of this study is to use whole-genomic sequences to identify the best-performing genes in order to advance the classification and systematics of Bacteriovorax bacteria. The construction of a more accurate phylogenetic tree of Bacteriovorax will provide a framework to define novel isolates in future studies.This information and resulting classification scheme will be disseminated to the scientific community through publications, sequence databases and a website. Florida A&M is a historically black college and university with few applicants submitting DDIG proposals. The student Co-PI will share her experiences in planning and writing the proposal through presentations to inspire others and thus potentially increasing future numbers of proposals from minority students.

细菌是独特的掠食性细菌，具有潜在的作用和益处，作为抗菌剂减轻植物和动物中某些细菌疾病的抗菌剂，控制细菌种群并在环境中回收营养。这些细菌也可能是新的新型治疗化合物的重要来源。为了实现细菌的全部潜力，有必要更好地理解其基因组结构，并将秩序带入分类和命名的系统。这项研究的目的是使用全基因组序列来鉴定表现最佳的基因，以推动细菌细菌的分类和系统。在未来的研究中，建造更准确的细菌系统发育树将提供一个框架来定义新型隔离株。此信息和结果的分类方案将通过出版物，序列数据库和网站将科学界传播到科学界。佛罗里达州A＆M是一所历史悠久的黑人学院和大学，很少有申请人提交DDIG提案。学生竞技表演将通过演讲来激发他人，从而分享她在计划和编写提案方面的经验，从而有可能增加少数族裔学生的未来建议。