Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biological Informatics for FY 2002

这一行动为NSF 2002财年生物信息学博士后研究奖学金提供了资金。该奖学金支持生物学与信息科学、计算科学、数学科学和统计科学交叉的博士后水平的研究和培训。该研究金的目标是为一名青年科学家提供培训，为从事生物信息学的职业做准备，在生物信息学中将把研究和教育结合起来。各个职业层次对生物信息学的培训需求越来越大，预计通过这些奖学金培训的研究员将在培训未来的劳动力方面发挥重要作用。该奖学金的研究和培训计划题为“利用对现代和化石红毒蛇的形态系统地理分析来恢复环境变化对脊椎动物区系的影响”。形态计量学分析和稳健统计被用来确定最近的和化石的红毒蛇动物群对环境转变的系统地理反应。这项研究考察了化石可以通过骨学变异识别的系统水平，爬行动物如何随着时间的推移对环境变化做出反应，以及化石可以在多大程度上预测动物对人为环境变化的反应。

This action funds an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biological Informatics for FY2002. The fellowship supports research and training at the postdoctoral level at the intersection of biology and the informational, computational, mathematical, and statistical sciences. The goal of the fellowship is to provide training to a young scientist in preparation for a career in biological informatics in which research and education will be integrated. There is an increasing need for training in biological informatics at all occupational levels, and it is expected that Fellows trained through these fellowships will play important roles in training the future workforce.The research and training plan for this fellowship is entitled "Recovering the influences of environmental change on vertebrate faunas using a morphological phylogeographic analysis of recent and fossil erycine snakes." Morphometric analysis and robust statistics are being used to determine phylogeographic responses of recent and fossil erycine snake faunas to environmental transitions. This research examines the systematic levels at which fossils can be recognized by osteological variability, how reptiles respond to environmental changes through time, and the extent that fossils can predict faunal responses to anthropogenic environmental modifications.