CENTER FOR NAVIGATION AND COMMUNICATION SCIENCE

导航与通信科学中心

• 批准号: 6572031
• 负责人: GARY D PAIGE
• 金额: $ 41.37万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-09-23 至 2007-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6572031
• 关键词: biomedical facility; communication; communication disorders

Among the most compelling features of daily life include the ability to navigate through the environment and to communicate with each other. These functions are fundamental to survival, but are also among the first to encounter trouble in the diseased or aging nervous system. The University of Rochester holds a set of NIH- supported research programs dedicated to the sensory, motor, and integrative mechanisms underlying navigation and communication. These provide a compelling framework for a new P-30 Core-Center that matches the mission of the NIDCD. Key ingredients for success for success are in place, including a committed leadership, dedicated faculty, precedents for shared core services, an advisory and quality assurance process, and an infrastructure that is conducive to new collaborations and attractive to new investigators. The Core-Center will allow investigators to efficient share costly, time-consuming, essential but cumbersome, and in many cases innovative research services. Three research cores are planned: 1) a Human Subjects Core will consolidate and coordinate the recruitment, screening, and scheduling of subjects across relevant projects; 2) a Research Services Core will include a Histology & Imaging Unit (tissue preparation, image analysis & reconstruction), and an Electronic/Mechanical Shop (repair and construction of lab components and devices); and 3) a Technology and Computation Core, to include a Lab Technology Unit that will implement automated lab systems for stimulus and behavioral control, data acquisition, and data analysis, while a complementary Computation Unit will support PC and network operations, maintenance & upgrades of common software tools, and staff training. Some research service units exist now, shared between the Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy and the Center for Visual Science (an NEI-P3O). The new Core-Center will exploit our inherently cooperative environment and augment these facilities while adding needed capacity in newly committed space. The result will enhance the quality, efficiency, and diversity of services to all. The Core-Center will generate a robust infrastructure that will enrich the productivity of ongoing and future research, promote collaborations among investigators, attract new faculty and students to the area, facilitate further institutional support, and ultimately contribute to the health of the community and the nation.

日常生活中最引人注目的功能包括在环境中导航和相互交流的能力。这些功能是生存的基础，但也是在患病或老化的神经系统中最先遇到麻烦的功能之一。罗切斯特大学拥有一系列由 NIH 支持的研究项目，致力于导航和通信基础的感觉、运动和综合机制。这些为符合 NIDCD 使命的新 P-30 核心中心提供了一个引人注目的框架。成功的关键要素已经到位，包括忠诚的领导、敬业的教师、共享核心服务的先例、咨询和质量保证流程，以及有利于新合作和吸引新研究者的基础设施。 核心中心将使研究人员能够有效地共享昂贵、耗时、必要但繁琐且在许多情况下具有创新性的研究服务。计划建立三个研究核心：1）人类受试者核心将整合和协调相关项目的受试者招募、筛选和安排； 2) 研究服务核心将包括组织学和成像单元（组织制备、图像分析和重建）和电子/机械车间（实验室组件和设备的维修和建造）； 3）技术和计算核心，包括一个实验室技术单元，该单元将实施用于刺激和行为控制、数据采集和数据分析的自动化实验室系统，而补充计算单元将支持 PC 和网络操作、通用软件工具的维护和升级以及员工培训。现在存在一些研究服务单位，由神经生物学与解剖学系和视觉科学中心（NEI-P3O）共享。新的核心中心将利用我们固有的合作环境并增强这些设施，同时在新承诺的空间中增加所需的容量。其结果将提高为所有人提供的服务的质量、效率和多样性。核心中心将建立一个强大的基础设施，提高正在进行和未来研究的生产力，促进研究人员之间的合作，吸引新的教师和学生到该地区，促进进一步的机构支持，并最终为社区和国家的健康做出贡献。