Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Microbial Biology for FY2001

本行动资助2001年度美国国家科学基金会微生物生物学博士后奖学金。该奖学金支持一般不被认为是模式生物的原生动物、微藻、真菌、古细菌、细菌和病毒物种的基本生物学培训和研究。此外，它为最近的博士学位获得者提供了在微生物生物学方面获得额外培训的机会，在知名科学家的赞助下获得研究经验，并在本科和研究生培训期间拓宽他/她的科学视野。这些研究金的进一步目的是帮助新科学家指导他们的研究工作跨越传统的学科界线，并利用独特的研究资源、地点和设施，包括国外的地点。这项研究和培训计划的标题是“开发基因表达工具，以识别海洋蓝藻自然种群的生理状态。”微生物促进其生存和确定其在生态系统中的作用的重要生理活动在很大程度上是未知的。本研究的重点是采用新的基因表达技术（DNA微阵列、原位RT-PCR和蛋白质组学）来鉴定丰富的、具有全球意义的海洋蓝藻原绿球藻的环境意义生理活动。

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 "Developing gene expression tools to identify the physiological states of natural populations of a marine cyanobacterium." The important physiological activities of microorganisms that facilitate their survival and define their roles within an ecosystem are largely unknown. This research focuses on adapting new gene expression technologies (DNA microarrays, in situ RT-PCR, and proteomics) to identify the environmentally-significant physiological activities of the highly-abundant, globally-significant marine cyanobacterium, Prochlorococcus spp.