NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology: A community guided assessment of parasitic threats to fish health

NSF 生物学博士后奖学金：社区指导下的鱼类健康寄生虫威胁评估

• 批准号: 2305847
• 负责人: Raymond Allen
• 金额: $ 24万
• 依托单位: Allen, Raymond Lance
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Fellowship Award
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-09-01 至 2026-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2305847&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Postdoctoral; Fellowship; Biology; community

This action funds an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology for FY 2023, Broadening Participation of Groups Underrepresented in Biology. The Fellowship supports a research and training plan for the Fellow that will increase the participation of groups underrepresented in biology. The Lac du Flambeau Indian Reservation, located in northern Wisconsin, is home to the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians and to over 250 freshwater lakes containing fish, invertebrates, aquatic plants, and pathogens. The Lac du Flambeau Tribe owns and operates the William J. Poupart, Sr. Fish Hatchery, which is responsible for raising and stocking hundreds of thousands of culturally and socially important fish to lakes within the reservation boundaries and throughout the Great Lakes Ceded territory and has duties to assess fish health in the hatchery and reservation lakes. This research, in collaboration with the Lac du Flambeau Fish Hatchery, aims to increase the knowledge of infectious pathogens threatening fish in area lakes and within the hatchery at multiple stages of fish and pathogen development, and begins to address questions on the long-term health of freshwater fish populations in the region in terms of a changing climate, and human-induced changes in lakes. The fellow will broaden participation of Indigenous peoples in biology as part of the research and through activities in conjunction with the Society for the Advancement for Chicanos/Hispanics & Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) and the Summer Internship for Indigenous Peoples in Genomics (SING).This project will do a broad assessment of fish pathogens throughout the region to determine what pathogens are present at what severity and determine parasite host development and severity across time. The fellow will first survey harvested and trapped fish (cisco, muskellunge, shiners, walleye) organs for parasites and seasonal infections rates by microscopy and DNA barcoding. The project will also investigate known tapeworms in northern Wisconsin and evaluate how their infection levels correlate with lake classification, intermediate host presence, and fish age and size. The final goal of this project is to investigate the development and life cycle of walleye tapeworm species. The fellow will establish lab and outdoor systems to culture both Bothriocephalus cuspidatus and Diphyllobothrium latum through their life cycles to develop a place-based model system to understand parasite and host interactions. The fellow will broaden participation of Indigenous peoples in biology by hosting Native American interns and Indigenous-focused seasonal workshops and will engage long-term with the Lac du Flambeau Nation and its community members. The fellow will also continue affiliations and trainings with the Society for the Advancement for Chicanos/Hispanics & Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) and the Summer Internship for Indigenous Peoples in Genomics (SING).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.

该行动为2023财年的生物学生物学研究金提供了一项NSF博士后研究奖学金，扩大了在生物学中代表不足的群体的参与。奖学金支持该研究员的研究和培训计划，这将增加生物学中代表性不足的群体的参与。位于威斯康星州北部的Lac du Flambeau Indian保留地是Superior Chippewa Indians的Lac Du Flambeau乐队的所在地，以及250多个含有鱼类，无脊椎动物，水生植物和病原体的淡水湖泊。 Lac du Flambeau部落拥有并经营William J. Poupart，Sr。Fish Hatchery，该孵化场负责筹集和储存数十万个文化和社会重要的鱼类，以在保留边界内以及整个大湖区内部的湖泊中，并在整个大湖割让的领土内有责任评估海湾和保留湖泊中的鱼类健康。这项研究与Lac du Flambeau鱼类孵化场合作，旨在提高人们在鱼类和病原体发育的多个阶段，威胁着地区湖泊和孵化场的知识，并开始解决有关该地区淡水鱼类种群长期健康的问题，该地区的气候变化以及人类诱发的湖泊变化。 The fellow will broaden participation of Indigenous peoples in biology as part of the research and through activities in conjunction with the Society for the Advancement for Chicanos/Hispanics & Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) and the Summer Internship for Indigenous Peoples in Genomics (SING).This project will do a broad assessment of fish pathogens throughout the region to determine what pathogens are present at what severity and determine parasite host development and severity跨时间。该研究员将首先调查通过显微镜和DNA条形码培养，收获和捕获的鱼（思科，Muskellunge，Shiners，Walleye）器官，以获取寄生虫和季节性感染率。该项目还将调查威斯康星州北部的已知tape虫，并评估其感染水平与湖泊分类，中间宿主的存在以及鱼类年龄和大小相关。该项目的最终目标是研究角膜白斑tape虫物种的发展和生命周期。该研究员将通过其生命周期建立实验室和室外系统，以培养Bothriocephalus cuspidatus和Diphyllobothrium latum latum，以开发基于地点的模型系统来了解寄生虫和宿主相互作用。该研究员将通过举办美国原住民实习生和以土著为中心的季节性讲习班来扩大土著人民参与生物学的参与，并将与Lac du Flambeau Nation及其社区成员长期参与。该研究员还将继续与芝加哥/西班牙裔和美洲原住民科学促进协会（SACNAS）以及基因组学土著人民的暑期实习（SING）进行隶属关系和培训。该奖项反映了NSF的法规使命，并被认为是通过基金会的知识优点和广泛的评论来评估的，并且值得通过评估来进行评估。