Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biological Informatics for FY 2005

这项行动为2005财政年度的NSF生物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水平的研究和培训。该研究金的目标是向一名青年科学家提供培训，为从事研究和教育相结合的生物信息学职业做准备。在所有职业级别上对生物信息学培训的需求日益增加，预计通过这些研究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，该研究金的研究和培训计划题为“探索北美东部林地蝾螈景观变化与遗传多样性之间的关系。“这项研究调查了Plethodon属林地蝾螈遗传变异和物种多样性的地理模式。它整合了自然历史收集，人口遗传学和环境数据，从数百个人口使用地理信息系统（GIS），并探讨景观生态学的影响程度遗传分化和物种形成的空间格局。这项研究建立在研究员在分子生物遗传学方面的研究生培训基础上，也使他能够获得空间生态分析和博物馆信息学方面的新分析技能。这些领域的整合加强了自然历史博物馆藏品与进化生态学新兴技术之间的联系，并为他在生物多样性信息学方面的学术研究计划做好了准备。

This action funds an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biological Informatics for FY 2005. 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 "Exploring the relationship between landscape variation and genetic diversity in eastern North American woodland salamanders." This research investigates geographic patterns of genetic variation and species diversity in woodland salamanders of the genus Plethodon. It integrates natural-history collection, population-genetic, and environmental data from hundreds of populations using geographic information systems (GIS), and explores the extent to which landscape ecology has influenced spatial patterns of genetic divergence and speciation in the group. The research builds upon the Fellow's graduate training in molecular phylogenetics and also permits him to gain new analytical skills in spatial ecological analyses and museum-based informatics. Integration of these fields strengthens the link between natural-history museum collections and emerging technologies in evolutionary ecology and prepares him for an academic research program in biodiversity informatics.