Administrative

该热带医学研究中心的行政核心的目的是协调该计划的所有行政，科学，旅行相关和会议活动。我们的研究管理员Elbe Silva多年来一直协调UFBA免疫学小组的活动，并且非常熟悉本核心中描述的所有活动。席尔瓦女士将直接协助核心主任卡瓦略博士。核心共同主任约翰逊博士和威尔逊博士分别自1969年和1998年以来一直参与巴伊亚研究计划。 行政核心的具体职能是： 1.为三个项目以及TMRC项目的数据管理、流行病学和转录组核心提供行政协调。 2.在美国热带医学和卫生学会年会期间协调项目主要研究者的季度会议以及主要研究者和共同主要研究者的会议。 3.为UFBA，UFRN，UVA，康奈尔大学和爱荷华大学的赠款会计提供财务监督。 4.为巴西和美国的项目和核心采购物资和设备提供便利。 5.协调巴西TMRC调查员以及来自美国和澳大利亚的合作者和咨询委员会成员的TMRC年度会议。

The purpose of the administrative core of this Tropical Medicine Research Center is to coordinate all administrative, scientific, travel-related, and meeting activities of the program. Our Research Administrator, Elbe Silva, has coordinated activities of the Immunology group at UFBA for many years, and is very familiar with all activities described in this core. Ms. Silva will provide direct assistance to the Core Director, Dr. Carvalho. The core co-Directors, Drs. Johnson and Wilson, have been involved in the Bahia research program since 1969 and 1998, respectively. The specific functions of the Administrative core are: 1. To provide administrative coordination for the three projects and for the data management, epidemiological and transcriptome cores of the TMRC program. 2. To coordinate the quarterly meeting of the project PIs of the and the meeting of the PIs and Co-PIs during the annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 3. To provide financial oversight of grant accounting at UFBA, UFRN, UVA, Cornell University and the University of lowa. 4. To facilitate the purchase of supplies and equipment for the projects and cores in Brazil and in the US. 5. To coordinate the annual TMRC meetings for the Brazilian TMRC investigators, as well as the collaborators and Advisory Committee members from the USA and Australia.