NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology FY 2014

2014 财年 NSF 生物学博士后奖学金

• 批准号: 1402287
• 负责人: Leone Brown
• 金额: $ 13.8万
• 依托单位: Brown Leone M
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Fellowship Award
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-03-01 至 2017-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1402287&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Postdoctoral; Fellowship; Biology; FY

NSF Postdoctoral Fellowships in Biology combine research and training components to prepare young scientists for careers in emerging areas where biology intersects with other scientific disciplines, in this case mathematics and physical sciences. Fellows are expected to be leaders of the nation's scientific workforce of the future. This fellowship to Leone M. Brown supports a research and training plan to investigate how long distance migration influences animal immunity and infectious disease dynamics. The host institution is the University of Georgia and the sponsoring scientists are Dr. Sonia Altizer and Dr. Richard Hall. Training objectives include epidemiological mathematical modeling, data management, and laboratory skills to determine animal infection status and immune function. The Fellow plans workshops to train professionals and students in statistical analysis of ecological data and educational outreach to predominantly low-income K-12 schools to communicate how concepts in mathematics can address real-life problems in ecology, conservation biology and public health. This fellowship is funded jointly by the Office of International and Integrative Activities and the Directorate for Biological Sciences.Animal migrations can alter infectious disease dynamics through effects on host immunity and exposure to pathogens. Human activities transform landscapes and create barriers to animal migration, causing some animals to migrate shorter distances or form sedentary populations. Because migratory animals can transport pathogens that infect humans, understanding interactions between migration and infection dynamics, and how pathogens respond to the loss of migration, can help forecast changes in disease risk for humans and wildlife. This project focuses on host characteristics and pathogen dynamics in Tyrannid flycatchers, a diverse group of birds with migratory and sedentary populations across the Americas. Field data on infection prevalence and immune function are being combined with statistical and mathematical models to estimate pathogen transmission and host survival across the annual cycle. This research promises to improve understanding of the role of animal migration in infectious disease spread, with broad relevance to other migratory species.

NSF生物学的博士后研究金结合了研究和培训组成部分，以准备年轻科学家在新兴地区的职业准备，在这种新兴地区，生物学与其他科学学科相交的新兴地区，在这种情况下，在这种情况下，在这种情况下为数学和物理科学。预计研究员将成为美国未来科学劳动力的领导者。 Leone M. Brown的这一奖学金支持了一项研究和培训计划，以调查距离迁移多长时间影响动物免疫和传染病动态。东道国是佐治亚大学，赞助科学家是索尼亚·阿尔特泽（Sonia Altizer）博士和理查德·霍尔（Richard Hall）博士。 培训目标包括流行病学的数学建模，数据管理和实验室技能，以确定动物感染状况和免疫功能。同胞计划讲习班，以培训专业人士和学生对主要低收入K-12学校的生态数据和教育宣传的统计分析，以传达数学中的概念如何解决生态学，保护生物学和公共卫生中的现实生活问题。 该奖学金由国际和综合活动办公室和生物科学局共同资助。动物迁移可以通过对宿主免疫和暴露于病原体的影响来改变传染病动态。人类的活动改变了景观，并为动物迁移创造了障碍，导致某些动物迁移较短或形成久坐的人群。由于迁徙动物可以运输感染人类的​​病原体，了解迁移和感染动态之间的相互作用，以及病原体如何应对迁移丧失的反应，可以帮助预测人类和野生动植物的疾病风险变化。该项目的重点是暴君捕蝇器的宿主特征和病原体动力学，这是一群在美洲各地有迁徙和久坐不动的鸟类的鸟类。感染率和免疫功能的现场数据与统计和数学模型结合使用，以估计病原体传播和整个年度循环的宿主存活。这项研究有望改善对动物迁移在传染病扩散中的作用的理解，与其他迁徙物种相关。