Genotype-Environment variation in heavy metal tolerance

描述：我的职业目标是成为进化生态学的领导者，成为一流研究型大学的教员。为了实现这一目标，我设想以我在实地生态研究方面的背景为基础，将其与追求详细的机械和基于遗传网络的方法相结合。NRSA奖学金可以为我提供机会，通过为一种新兴的生态模式生物体开发遗传和基因组工具来提高我的生态技能。作为一名NRSA博士后研究员，并最终成为一名独立研究员，我想了解不同的基因型对重金属毒性的敏感性是如何变化的。重金属毒性具有明确的医学意义，但对于了解追踪土壤化学的植物多样性和物种形成模式也很重要，对污染土壤中的农业生产也越来越重要。我认为这是一个具有巨大研究潜力和重要性的领域。

DESCRIPTION: My career goal is to be a leader in evolutionary ecology as a faculty member at a first-tier research university. To reach this goal, I envision building upon my background in field-based ecological research by pairing it with the pursuit of detailed mechanistic and genetic-network based approaches. The NRSA fellowship could provide me with the opportunity to build upon my ecological skills by developing genetic and genomic tools for an emerging ecological model organism. As a NRSA postdoctoral fellow and eventually as an independent researcher, I want to understand how genotypes vary in their sensitivity to heavy metal toxicity. Heavy metal toxicity has clear medical implications, but is also important for understanding patterns of plant diversity and speciation that track soil chemistry, and is increasingly important for agricultural production in polluted soils. I see this as an area with great research potential and importance.