DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Predation Behavior of Bacteriovorax and Bacteriophages Against Vibrio spp. - Linking Predatory Traits with Systematics of the Bacterial Predator

论文研究：噬菌体和噬菌体对弧菌的捕食行为。

基本信息

批准号：
1110620
负责人：
Henry Williams
金额：
$ 1.4万
依托单位：
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2011
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2011-07-01 至 2013-06-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1110620&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
DISSERTATION RESEARCH Predation Behavior Bacteriovorax

项目摘要

Bacteriovorax are unique predatory bacteria with potential roles and benefits as antibacterial agents to mitigate certain bacterial diseases in plants and animals, controlling bacterial populations and recycling nutrients in the environment. These bacteria may also be an important unexploited source of new novel therapeutic compounds. To realize the full potential of Bacteriovorax, it is necessary to better understand their genome structure and to bring order to the system of classifying and naming them. The purpose of this study is to use whole-genomic sequences to identify the best-performing genes in order to advance the classification and systematics of Bacteriovorax bacteria. The construction of a more accurate phylogenetic tree of Bacteriovorax will provide a framework to define novel isolates in future studies.This information and resulting classification scheme will be disseminated to the scientific community through publications, sequence databases and a website. Florida A&M is a historically black college and university with few applicants submitting DDIG proposals. The student Co-PI will share her experiences in planning and writing the proposal through presentations to inspire others and thus potentially increasing future numbers of proposals from minority students.

食细菌菌是一种独特的捕食性细菌，具有作为抗菌剂的潜在作用和益处，可减轻动植物中的某些细菌性疾病、控制细菌种群并回收环境中的营养物质。这些细菌也可能是未开发的新型治疗化合物的重要来源。为了充分发挥噬菌菌的潜力，有必要更好地了解它们的基因组结构，并对其分类和命名系统进行排序。本研究的目的是利用全基因组序列来鉴定表现最好的基因，以推进食细菌菌的分类和系统学。构建更准确的噬菌菌系统发育树将为未来研究中定义新分离株提供一个框架。该信息和由此产生的分类方案将通过出版物、序列数据库和网站传播给科学界。佛罗里达农工大学是一所历史悠久的黑人学院和大学，很少有申请者提交 DDIG 提案。学生 Co-PI 将通过演示分享她规划和撰写提案的经验，以激励其他人，从而有可能增加未来少数族裔学生提案的数量。