CORE - ADMINISTRATIVE

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We plan to continue the administrative arrangements that have served us well in the past funding period. Overall supervision of the Core is under the direction of the P.I. and the Core Center Executive Committee. This committee consists of the P.I. as chair, the five Module directors, and one extensive user of the Core modules. Dr. Bret A. Hughes, a long-standing NEI R01 holder, has served as Principal Investigator of this Core Center for Vision Research for the past eight years and is intimately involved with the overall and day-today direction of the Core Center. The Core Center Executive Committee meets quarterly and reviews the activities of each Module. In particular, the meetings emphasize enhancement of the overall research environment, the success of the Core Center in attracting new investigators and projects into vision research, and the success of collaborative efforts. Time logs of the service modules are reviewed and issues regarding access to each facility are explored. NEI-funded investigators have preference in use of the facilities. Other researchers, especially those collaborating with NEI-funded researchers are next in order of preference. Time permitting, the modules can be used by other individuals involved in vision research, and through such usage, new investigators will be encouraged to pursue vision-related research and develop pilot data to support NEI grant submissions. These procedures and priorities have worked well, with no major problems or disputes. Several minor issues related to access or personnel matters were rapidly resolved to everyone's satisfaction by the P.I. and Executive Committee. Thus, the P.I. and the Core Center Executive Committee share responsibility to ensure that the Core Modules and facilities are effectively and efficiently utilized by all University of Michigan vision scientists. In addition, we actively strive to ensure that all members of the vision research community are aware of these resources and use them to benefit their research projects. Three mechanisms are in place to inform participating investigators and potential users of the resources and services provided by the Core Center Modules. First, we maintain a Vision Core Center website within the Kellogg Eye Center website (http://www.kellogg.umich.edu/research/facilities.html). This website includes links to the Core Modules (the Vivarium Module is excluded for security reasons) and their capabilities, our vision research training program, vision research seminars, and the areas of basic and clinical research of our faculty. Second, twice during each funding cycle, the P.I., Module Directors, and Module staff present an overview of the Core Center Modules to the vision research community during the time slot for the vision research seminar. Finally, the availability of new Core Module instrumentation and services is announced by e-mail to the entire vision research community.