NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology FY 2021: Assessing the effects of complex developmental environments on fitness across lifespans

该行动资助了2021财年的NSF生物学博士后研究奖学金，即调查基因组，环境和表型之间相互作用的生命规则的综合研究。该研究金支持研究员的研究和培训，以创新的方式为生活规则领域做出贡献。该奖学金将支持综合生物学以及本科课程中基于学科的教育研究工作。通过该奖学金进行的生物学研究将研究环境在塑造生物体发展中的作用。通过研究先天与后天的后天一半，这项研究将阐明环境的复杂性，不断变化的方面如何塑造生物体的进化适应性。这项研究的教育方面将致力于提高科罗拉多大学博尔德分校本科STEM课程的公平性和有效性。这两个研究目标将产生学术著作，将代表各自领域的新贡献。生物生物学研究的两个首要目标是：（1）使用建模方法分析现有的经验数据来评估湿度和温度对健身的长期影响;（2）对湿度和温度对表型，行为和健身的相互作用进行进一步的实证研究。棕色变色蜥蜴（Anolis sagrei）将作为这项研究的一个很好的系统，这项工作将填补对这种重要模式生物的理解的一个重大空白。此外，该奖学金将允许研究员通过整合新技术来建立他们作为实地生态学家的现有技能，这些新技术将使研究真正融入自然。研究员还将通过检查高等教育的教学实践来提高他们作为教育工作者的技能。这项研究将提供数据，可以塑造未来的教学技术，将关闭性能差距边缘化的学生groups.This奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过评估使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准的支持。

This action funds an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology for FY 2021, Integrative Research Investigating the Rules of Life Governing Interactions Between Genomes, Environment and Phenotypes. The fellowship supports research and training of the fellow that will contribute to the area of Rules of Life in innovative ways. This fellowship will support work in integrative organismal biology as well as discipline-based education research in undergraduate courses. The biological research conducted through this fellowship will examine the role of the environment in shaping the development of organisms. By examining the nurture half of nature versus nurture, this research will illuminate how complex, ever-changing aspects of the environment shape an organism’s evolutionary fitness. The educational aspect of this research will be directed at improving equity and efficacy in undergraduate STEM courses at University of Colorado Boulder. Both of these research aims will produce scholarly works that will represent novel contributions to the respective fields. The two overarching goals of the organismal biology research are: (1) to assess the long-term effects of moisture and temperature individually on fitness using a modeling approach to analyze existing empirical data and (2) conduct further empirical studies on the interactive effects of moisture and temperature on phenotypes, behaviors, and fitness. The brown anole lizard (Anolis sagrei) will serve as an excellent system for this research, and this work will fill a significant gap in the understanding of this important model organism. Additionally, this fellowship will allow the fellow to build on their existing skill set as a field ecologist by incorporating new techniques that will make the research truly integrative in nature. The fellow will also improve their skills as an educator by examining teaching practices in higher education. This research will provide data that can shape future instructional techniques that will close performance gaps for marginalized student groups.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.