Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Informatics for FY 2003

Freedberg, Steven A, Charlottesville VA

Investigators

Abstract

Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Interdisciplinary Informatics are sponsored jointly by the Directorates for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) and Biological Sciences (BIO) to encourage research and training that cross the traditional disciplinary boundaries between them. These fellowships provide opportunities for interdisciplinary research and educational activities in biology and informatics to a wide range of recent doctoral recipients (biologists, chemists, physicists, mathematicians, statisticians, computer scientists, and others). It is expected that the Fellows trained through these fellowships will play an important role in training the future workforce. Postdoctoral research and training in informatics will permit junior scientists trained in biology, mathematical, chemical, and physical sciences to play key roles in developing new quantitative tools and methods that will advance informatics in biology and other fields. The research and training plan is entitled "Gene-culture conflict and evolution in turtles." In this research computer simulation modeling is being used to explore the evolutionary dynamics and consequences of gene-culture interactions. Specifically, the effects of matrilineal nest-site imprinting and male combat on the evolution of environmental sex determination and sex ratios in reptiles are being examined.