BEHAVIORAL TESTING FACILITY (BTF)

行为测试设施 行为测试机构(BTF)的主要目标是满足与中央加勒比大学(UCC)基础科学和临床社区发展相关的需求。此外，BTF已将其服务扩展到波多黎各所有的整个科学界。我们为更新提案提出了五个具体目标。 具体目标1.促进波多黎各基础科学家和临床医生使用BTF。在该设施的使用方面，将通过将两个额外的职能单位整合在生物多样性工作组核心内加以解决：人类行为表型单位(HBPU)和动物行为表型单位(ABPU)。 具体目标2.继续为现有设备的使用提供高生产力的工作条件，并为正在进行的和面向翻译研究的新项目提供必要的环境。具体目标3.继续对研究助理和其他人员以及BTF用户进行行为实验所使用的方法、设备、实验规程和软件的培训。这次培训将包括新的基于互联网的方法，以提供更好的访问我们的设施。 具体目标4.通过合作研究网络“少数民族机构研究中心”(http://www.rtrn.net))有效地推销该设施，以加强加州大学社区以及加州大学与其他地方和美国大陆大学之间的合作研究，该网络正在促进健康差距领域的转换研究。具体目标5.帮助参与实验的科学界获取数据并将动物行为和/或精神运动可视化 与翻译研究有关的改动，保持最新的分析方法。我们的行为测试设备已经为30名研究人员提供了服务，目前有10名研究人员正在使用该设备最近提交给联邦机构的四项新提案包括在他们的实验中使用BTF。

Behavioral Testing Facility The main goal of the Behavioral Testing Facility (BTF) is to cover a need associated with the development of the basic sciences and clinical community at the Universidad Central del Caribe (UCC). Additionally, BTF has extended its services to all Puerto Rico's entire scientific community. We are proposing five specific aims for the renewal proposal. Specific Aim 1. To foster the usage of BTF by basic scientists and clinicians in Puerto Rico. Enhancement in the use of the facility will be addressed by the integration of two additional functional units within the BTF core: the Human Behavioral Phenotyping Unit (HBPU) and the Animal Behavioral Phenotyping Unit (ABPU). Specific Aim 2. To continue providing highly productive working conditions for the use of the existing equipment and the environment necessary for both ongoing and new projects oriented to translational research. Specific Aim 3. To continue the training of research assistants and other personnel and BTF's users in methods, equipment, experimental protocols and software used in behavioral experiments. This training will include new internet based methodologies to provide even greater access to our facilities. Specific Aim 4. To intensify the collaborative research at the UCC community, and between UCC and other local and Continental USA Universities, by effectively marketing the facility through the cooperative research network "Research Centers in Minority Institutions Translational Research Network" (http://www.rtrn.net) which is facilitating the translational research in health disparity areas. Specific Aim 5. To help the scientific community involved in experiments to acquire data and visualize animal behavior and/or psychomotor alteration related to translational research by maintaining updated the analytical methodologies. Our Behavioral Testing Facility has served > 30 researchers, and currently 10 investigators are using the facility Four new proposals recently submitted to federal agencies are including usage of BTF in their experiments.