CAREER:Quantification of Horizontal Gene Transfer as Adaptive Response to Containment Stress in Subsurface Microbial Communities-Development of an Experiential Environ. Eng. Course

9702361 Smets这是一个奖项，为研究提供支持，适当利用自然衰减，以开发基于生物的技术，从受这些物质污染的土壤中去除有害物质。 该研究是基于一个假设，即水平传播的遗传物质的交换和重排是土壤中现有微生物群落短期适应的主要贡献者，并且在压力存在下的转移过程的表征可以提供可应用于土壤去污系统的工程设计的见解。 该奖项还为继续这位调查员作为教育工作者的早期发展提供了支持。 他的教育计划涉及解决工程专业对工程师的需求，这些工程师将重要的知识技术基础与综合和跨学科整合的能力结合起来。 该奖项的提案是根据NSF 96-115“教师早期职业发展（CAREER）计划”提交的。“关于微生物群落如何适应污染物压力的定量知识可以帮助系统和程序的工程设计，以利用自然存在的生物群落从土壤和受污染的含水层中去除污染物的能力。 ***

9702361 Smets This is an award to provide support for research on appropriate use of natural attenuation to develop biologically-based technologies for removal of hazardous substances from soil that is contaminated with these substances. The research is based on a hypothesis that the exchange and rearrangement of horizontally transmissible genetic material is a major contributor to the short-term adaptation of existing microbial communities in soil and that characterization of the transfer process in the presence of stress can provide insights that can be applied to engineering design of systems for decontamination of soil. This award also provides support for the continuation of this investigator's early development as an educator. His education plan involves addressing the engineering profession's demands for engineers who couple a significant technical base of knowledge with an ability for synthesis and cross-disciplinary integration. The proposal leading to this award was submitted in response to NSF 96-115, "Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program." Quantitative knowledge of how microbial communities adapt to contaminant stress can assist in the engineering design of systems and procedures to exploit the capability of naturally occurring communities of organisms to removal of contaminants from soil and contaminated aquifers. ***