Core Center: NIDCD Research Core Center P30

描述(由申请人提供)：请提供支持，以整合佛罗里达大学(UF)和佛罗里达州立大学(FSU)在化学感官方面的基础研究专业知识，创建UF/FSU化学传感研究核心中心；这是东南部第一个这样的中心。该提案创建了一个行政核心和两个研究核心，一个是工程学，一个是遗传学，为这两个机构主要由NIDCD资助的化学感官研究提供“增值”。研究基地包括6名合格的和8名支持性的化学感觉调查人员，以及另外3名也将从研究核心中受益的听觉调查人员。两个相关的研究主题统一了研究基础，控制摄食行为的化学感觉处理和嗅觉输入的检测和处理。该领域的两位科学领袖，他们都有有效合作的历史，在各自的机构中主持着这项倡议。通过在每个机构建立供另一个机构的科学家使用的办公空间，在每个机构建立专用的视频会议设施，以及使用UF的NIDCD支持的安全数据共享网络，促进了互动。核心中心的概念框架与UF嗅觉和味觉中心NIDCD支持的化学感觉临床研究项目密切相关，该项目专注于研究化学感觉系统在消化行为中的功能作用及其对人类健康的影响。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Support is requested to integrate the basic research expertise in the chemical senses at the University of Florida (UF) and Florida State University (FSU) by creating the UF/FSU Chemosensory Research Core Center; the first such center in the Southeast. The proposal creates an administrative Core and two research Cores, one in Engineering and one in Genetics, to provide 'value added' to the mostly NIDCD-funded chemical senses research at the two institutions. The research base consists of six qualifying and eight supporting chemosensory investigators, together with three other auditory investigators who will also benefit from the research Cores. Two related research themes unite the research base, chemosensory processing controlling ingestive behavior and the detection and processing of olfactory input. Two scientific leaders in the field who have a proven history of working effectively together anchor the initiative at the respective institutions. Interaction is facilitated by establishing office space at each institution for use by scientists from the other institution, by establishing dedicated videoconferencing facilities at each institution, and by using UF's NIDCD-supported secure data sharing network. The conceptual framework of the Core Center closely aligns it with that of the UF Center for Smell and Taste's NIDCD-supported Chemosensory Clinical Research Program, which focuses on studying the functional role of chemosensory systems in ingestive behavior and its impact on human health.