Research Training Group in the Analysis of Biological Diversification

这笔奖金将设立一个生物多样化分析研究训练组。教职员包括分子与细胞生物学、生态学与进化生物学、地质学等系的成员。奖学金将为本科生、研究生和博士后学员提供津贴，并将支付部分学员的研究费用。此外，经费将用于购买专门的研究设备供受训者使用，并将其他研究和学术机构的调查人员带到校园参加讨论会。大学的资源将增加NSF在这些类别中提供的资金。分子生物学家、发育生物学家和种群生物学家，以及系统学家、生态学家和古生物学家，已经发展出研究生物多样性的独特方法。由于学生的传统训练方式，这些方法之间的联系尚未得到详细探讨。虽然他们的个人研究兴趣与上面的列表一样多样化，但教师们成立了这个小组，目的是利用系统发育学，这可以被视为多样化的历史，作为整合这些不同观点的一种方法。

This award will establish a Research Training Group in the Analysis of Biological Diversification. The faculty group includes members of the Departments of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Geology. The funds awarded will provide stipends for undergraduate, graduate and post-doctoral trainees, and will defray part of the cost of trainee's research. In addition, funds will be used to purchase specialized research equipment to be used by trainees and to bring investigators from other research and academic institutions to the campus for seminars. University resources will augment the funds provided by NSF in most of these categories. Molecular, developmental, and population biologists, as well as systematists, ecologists and paleontologists, have developed distinctive approaches to the study of biological diversity. Owing to the way in which students have been trained traditionally, the connections among these approaches have not been explored in detail. While their individual research interests are as diverse as the list above, the faculty have formed this group with the aim of using phylogeny, which can be viewed as the history of diversification, as an approach to the integration of these disparate perspectives.