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。在所有职业层面上，对生物信息学培训的需求越来越大，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“鱼的机械接受动力学建模”。在游泳过程中，即使水流过身体，鱼也能感觉到机械振动。游泳运动和机械刺激都会对身体表面的机械感觉结构产生力。通过结合实验和计算方法，这项工作研究了这些力是如何随着刺激和游泳运动而变化的。

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 "Modeling the dynamics of mechanoreception in fish." Fish can perceive mechanical vibrations even when water flows over the body during swimming. Both the swimming motion and mechanical stimuli generate forces on mechanosensory structures on the surface of the body. By integrating experimental and computational approaches, this work examines how these forces vary with stimuli and with the swimming motion.