Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biological Informatics for FY 2006

本行动资助2006年度美国国家科学基金会生物信息学博士后研究奖学金。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。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“群居昆虫社会特征的进化遗传学”。群居昆虫是社会进化的模式系统，但它们的全部社会复杂性尚未纳入遗传模型。本项目利用蜜蜂系统，整合广泛的遗传和行为数据，开发新的进化遗传模型，研究社会特征的遗传结构在进化中的重要性。培训目标是学习新的方法：研究性状的分子遗传基础，开发分析和模拟进化遗传模型，并整合可用于模型遗传系统（如蜜蜂）的基因组和基因表达数据。这次培训将帮助研究员实现他的职业目标，即利用群居昆虫来研究社会进化。

This action funds an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biological Informatics for FY 2006. 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 "The evolutionary genetics of social traits in social insects." Social insects are model systems for social evolution, but their full social complexity has not been incorporated into genetic models. This project uses a honeybee system, integrating extensive genetic and behavior data and developing new evolutionary genetic models, to study the evolutionary importance of the genetic architecture underlying social traits.The training goals are to learn new approaches to: study the molecular genetic basis of traits, develop analytic and simulation evolutionary genetic models, and integrate genomic and gene expression data available for model genetic systems such as the honeybee. This training will help the Fellow achieve his career goals of using social insects to study social evolution.