Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Microbial Biology for FY 2003

该行动资助了2003财年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们的科学视野。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题目是“antlion及其细菌共生体之间关系的表征”。日本蚂蚁的细菌共生体产生一种杀虫的GroEL同系物。本研究是鉴定产生GroEL同源物的北美蚁群的共生体，并在显微镜下鉴定蚁群的共生组织。其他研究将破译共生体及其GroEL同源物在其昆虫宿主的健康和行为中的作用。

This action funds an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Microbial Biology for FY2003. 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 recent doctoral recipients to obtain additional training in microbial biology, to gain research experience under the sponsorship of established scientists, and to broaden their 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 "Characterization of the relationship between antlions and their bacterial symbionts." A bacterial symbiont of the Japanese antlion Myrmeleon bore produces an insecticidal homologue of GroEL. This research is identifying symbionts of North American antlion species that produce a GroEL homologue and microscopically identifying antlion symbiotic tissues. Other studies will decipher the role of symbionts and their GroEL homologues in the health and behavior of their insect hosts.