NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology FY 2014

2014 财年 NSF 生物学博士后奖学金

• 批准号: 1402287
• 负责人: Leone Brown
• 金额: $ 13.8万
• 依托单位: Brown Leone M
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Fellowship Award
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-03-01 至 2017-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1402287&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Postdoctoral; Fellowship; Biology; FY

NSF Postdoctoral Fellowships in Biology combine research and training components to prepare young scientists for careers in emerging areas where biology intersects with other scientific disciplines, in this case mathematics and physical sciences. Fellows are expected to be leaders of the nation's scientific workforce of the future. This fellowship to Leone M. Brown supports a research and training plan to investigate how long distance migration influences animal immunity and infectious disease dynamics. The host institution is the University of Georgia and the sponsoring scientists are Dr. Sonia Altizer and Dr. Richard Hall. Training objectives include epidemiological mathematical modeling, data management, and laboratory skills to determine animal infection status and immune function. The Fellow plans workshops to train professionals and students in statistical analysis of ecological data and educational outreach to predominantly low-income K-12 schools to communicate how concepts in mathematics can address real-life problems in ecology, conservation biology and public health. This fellowship is funded jointly by the Office of International and Integrative Activities and the Directorate for Biological Sciences.Animal migrations can alter infectious disease dynamics through effects on host immunity and exposure to pathogens. Human activities transform landscapes and create barriers to animal migration, causing some animals to migrate shorter distances or form sedentary populations. Because migratory animals can transport pathogens that infect humans, understanding interactions between migration and infection dynamics, and how pathogens respond to the loss of migration, can help forecast changes in disease risk for humans and wildlife. This project focuses on host characteristics and pathogen dynamics in Tyrannid flycatchers, a diverse group of birds with migratory and sedentary populations across the Americas. Field data on infection prevalence and immune function are being combined with statistical and mathematical models to estimate pathogen transmission and host survival across the annual cycle. This research promises to improve understanding of the role of animal migration in infectious disease spread, with broad relevance to other migratory species.

NSF生物学博士后研究金联合收割机结合研究和培训组件，为年轻科学家在生物学与其他科学学科交叉的新兴领域的职业生涯做好准备，在这种情况下，数学和物理科学。这些研究员有望成为国家未来科学工作者的领导者。这个奖学金给了Leone M.布朗支持一项研究和培训计划，以调查长距离迁移如何影响动物免疫力和传染病动态。主办机构是格鲁吉亚大学，赞助科学家是Sonia Altizer博士和Richard Hall博士。 培训目标包括流行病学数学建模，数据管理和实验室技能，以确定动物感染状态和免疫功能。该研究员计划举办讲习班，培训专业人员和学生进行生态数据的统计分析，并向主要是低收入的K-12学校进行教育宣传，以传达数学概念如何解决生态学，保护生物学和公共卫生中的现实问题。 该研究金由国际和综合活动办公室和生物科学理事会共同资助。动物迁徙可以通过影响宿主免疫力和接触病原体来改变传染病动态。人类活动改变了景观，并为动物迁徙制造了障碍，导致一些动物迁移较短的距离或形成定居种群。由于迁徙动物可以传播感染人类的病原体，因此了解迁徙和感染动态之间的相互作用，以及病原体对迁徙损失的反应，可以帮助预测人类和野生动物疾病风险的变化。该项目的重点是在Tyrannid flyccatchers，一个不同的鸟类群体的迁移和定居人口在美洲的主机特性和病原体动态。关于感染流行率和免疫功能的实地数据正在与统计和数学模型相结合，以估计整个年度周期的病原体传播和宿主存活率。这项研究有望提高对动物迁徙在传染病传播中的作用的理解，并与其他迁徙物种具有广泛的相关性。