NSF-CGP Science and Engineering Fellows Program: Teleost Cardiac Peptides

9503764该奖项支持纽约州立大学布法罗分校生物科学系Christopher Loretz博士与东京大学海洋研究所的Tetsuya Hirano博士和Yoshio Takei博士的合作。项目资金将使洛雷茨博士能够在日本海洋研究所呆上四个月，研究一种激素家族--利钠肽--的结构/活性和进化关系。这项提议汇集了两个国家在鱼类内分泌学和生理学领域工作的研究科学家。该项目提供了一个独特的机会，将Loretz博士的电生理学专业知识与平野博士和武井博士在鉴定鱼的钠尿肽(S)方面的生化和内分泌学专业知识结合在一起。这位美国科学家将有机会熟悉海洋研究所的研究技术、数据、设备和设施，同时为整个研究工作做出贡献。因此，这项建议实现了该计划通过国际合作交流和转让科学知识的目标。***

9503764 Loretz This award supports the collaboration of Dr. Christopher Loretz, Department of Biological Sciences, the State University of New York at Buffalo and Drs. Tetsuya Hirano and Yoshio Takei at the Ocean Research Institute of the University of Tokyo. Project funding will enable Dr. Loretz to spend four months in Japan, resident at the Ocean Research Institute, in order to study the structure/activity and evolutionary relationships of a hormone family, the natriuretic peptides. This proposal brings together research scientists from two countries working in the area of fish endocrinology and physiology. The project provides a unique opportunity to bring together the electrophysiological expertise of Dr. Loretz with the biochemical and endocrinological expertise of Drs. Hirano and Takei on the characterization of natriuretic peptides(s) from a fish, the euryhaline goby Gillichthys mirabilis. The U. S. scientist will have the opportunity to become familiar with research techniques, data, equipment, and facilities at the Ocean Research Institute while contributing to the overall research effort. Therefore, this proposal fulfills the objectives of the Program in its exchange and transfer of scientific knowledge through an international collaboration. ***