International Research Fellow Awards Program: Molecular andGenomic Evolution of Obligately Parthenogenetic Aphids

9600300 Normark国际研究员奖励计划使美国科学家和工程师能够在国外进行三到二十四个月的研究。该计划的奖励为联合研究提供了机会，并利用独特或互补的设施、专业知识和国外的实验条件。该奖项将支持本杰明·诺马克博士与罗杰·l·布莱克曼博士在英国伦敦自然历史博物馆进行为期12个月的博士后研究访问。诺马克博士和布莱克曼博士将开展一项研究计划，研究专一性孤雌蚜虫的分子和基因组进化，重点研究特拉米尼部落。这项工作将建立在Normark博士正在进行的蚜虫部落Tramini的分子进化研究和Blackman博士正在进行的对Tramini和其他蚜虫的细胞遗传学研究的基础上。一个中心目标将是综合分子生物学和细胞遗传学技术，以在没有性的情况下对蚜虫基因组进化的综合观点取得进展。他们将重点研究特拉马穴居人复合体及其所属的特拉马部落。＊＊＊

9600300 Normark The International Research Fellow Awards Program enables U.S. scientists and engineers to conduct three to twentyfour months of research abroad. The program's awards provide opportunities for joint research, and the use of unique or complementary facilities, expertise and experimental conditions abroad. This award will support a twelve-month postdoctoral research visit by Dr. Benjamin Normark to work with Dr. Roger L. Blackman at the Natural History Museum in London, England. Dr. Normark and Dr. Blackman will conduct a program of research into the molecular and genomic evolution of obligately parthenogenetica aphids, focusing on the tribe Tramini. This work will build on Dr. Normark's ongoing research into the molecular evolution of the aphid tribe Tramini and on Dr. Blackman's ongoing cytogenetic research into Tramini and other aphids. A central goal will be to synthesize molecular-biological and cytogenetic techniques to progress towards an integrated view of the evolution of aphid genomes in the absence of sexuality. They will focus on the Trama troglodytes complex and on the tribe Tramini of which it is part. ***