Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Microbial Biology for FY2001

这一行动为2001财政年度NSF微生物生物学博士后奖学金提供资金。 该研究金支持关于原生动物、微藻、真菌、古菌、细菌和病毒物种的基础生物学的培训和研究，这些物种通常不被视为模式生物。此外，它为最近的博士生提供了机会，以获得微生物生物学方面的额外培训，在既定科学家的赞助下获得研究经验，并拓宽他/她的科学视野，超越本科和研究生培训期间的研究经验。这些奖学金还旨在帮助新科学家指导他们的研究工作，跨越传统学科，并利用独特的研究资源，地点和设施，包括外国地点。研究和培训计划的题目是“能源、环境变化和动态约束对实验微生物食物网结构的影响”。“一个基于实验室的微生物系统，由细菌，自养藻类，异养原生动物和轮虫组成，正在被用来确定环境变化和能量对食物网新兴结构的影响。 不同的复杂性的网络实验扰动和网络结构的变化进行了比较，以评估扰动和稳定性的复杂性如何相互作用，以产生社区组织的稳定措施。

This action funds an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Microbial Biology for FY2001. The fellowship supports training and research on the basic biology of protozoan, microalgal, fungal, archaeal, bacterial and viral species that are not generally considered to be model organisms. Further, it provides opportunities for a recent doctoral recipients to obtain additional training in microbial biology, to gain research experience under the sponsorship of established scientists, and to broaden his/her scientific horizons beyond the research experiences during the undergraduate and graduate training. These fellowships are further designed to assist new scientists to direct their research efforts across traditional disciplinary lines and to avail themselves of unique research resources, sites, and facilities, including foreign locations. The research and training plan is entitled "Effects of energy, environmental variation, and dynamic constraints on the structure of experimental microbial food webs." A lab-based microbial system, comprised of bacteria, autotrophic algae, heterotrophic protozoa, and rotifers, is being used to determine the effects of environmental variability and energy on the emergent structure of food webs. Webs of varying complexity are experimentally perturbed and changes in web structure are compared to stability measures to assess how perturbations and stability-complexity interact to generate community organization.