Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Informatics for FY 2003

该行动为2003财政年度NSF跨学科信息学博士后研究奖学金提供资金。该奖学金支持生物学与信息、计算、数学和统计科学交叉领域的博士后研究和培训。该研究金的目标是向青年科学家提供培训，为从事生物信息学方面的研究和教育相结合的职业做准备。这些奖学金为生物学和信息学的跨学科研究和教育活动提供了机会，以广泛的近期博士获得者。越来越需要在所有职业级别上进行生物信息学培训，预期通过这些研究金培训的研究员将在培训未来工作人员方面发挥重要作用。这项研究和培训计划的题目是“共同进化的案例研究：用统计系统发育学检验逃逸和辐射假说”。统计系统发育学和计算生物学正被用于检验植物及其昆虫食草动物的逃逸和辐射假说。正在从三个模式植物-昆虫系统中生成系统发育树，以测试这一物种多样化假设的普遍性；目前正在开发一种检测适应性辐射的方法。

This action funds an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Informatics for fiscal year 2003. 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. These fellowships provide opportunities for interdisciplinary research and educational activities in biology and informatics to a wide range of recent doctoral recipients. 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 is entitled "Case studies in coevolution: testing the escape and radiate hypothesis using statistical phylogenetics." Statistical phylogenetics and computational biology are being used to test the escape and radiate hypothesis for plants and their insect herbivores. Phylogenetic trees from three model plant-insect systems are being generated to test the generality of this hypothesis for species diversification; and a test is being developed to examine adaptive radiations.