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特征包括能够在环境中导航和相互交流。这些功能对于生存至关重要，但也是第一个在患病或衰老神经系统中遇到麻烦的功能之一。罗切斯特大学（University of Rochester）拥有一套由NIH支持的研究计划，该计划专门针对导航和通信的感官，运动和综合机制。这些为与NIDCD的任务相匹配的新P-30中心提供了令人信服的框架。成功取得成功的关键要素已经到位，包括坚定的领导，专门的教师，共享核心服务的先例，咨询和质量保证过程以及有利于新合作和对新调查人员有吸引力的基础架构。 核心中心将使调查人员能够有效地分享昂贵，耗时，必不可少但繁琐的，并且在许多情况下是创新的研究服务。计划了三个研究核心：1）人类受试者核心将巩固和协调跨相关项目的受试者的招聘，筛查和调度； 2）研究服务核心将包括组织学和成像单元（组织准备，图像分析和重建）以及电子/机械商店（实验室组件和设备的维修和建设）； 3）一个技术和计算核心，包括一个实验室技术单元，该单元将实施自动实验室系统，以进行刺激和行为控制，数据获取和数据分析，而互补的计算单元将支持PC和网络操作，维护和升级通用软件工具以及员工培训。神经生物学和解剖学系与视觉科学中心（NEI-P3O）之间共享的一些研究服务部门现在存在。新的核心中心将利用我们固有的合作环境，并增加这些设施，同时在新承诺的空间中增加所需的能力。结果将提高所有人服务的质量，效率和多样性。核心中心将产生强大的基础设施，将丰富正在进行的和未来的研究的生产力，促进研究人员之间的合作，吸引新的教职员工和学生进入该地区，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。