Administrative Module

管理组件 我们计划继续实行过去财政期间行之有效的行政安排。对核心的全面监督是在PI和核心中心执行委员会的指导下进行的。该委员会由PI担任主席，六个模块的主任和联席主任，以及Peter Hitchcock博士，他是眼科和视觉科学系研究委员会主席和我们T32项目的主任。Bret A.Hughes博士是NEI R01的长期持有者，在过去的13年里，他一直担任这个核心视觉研究中心的首席研究员，并密切参与核心中心的整体和日常指导。核心中心执行委员会每季度召开一次会议，审查每个模块的活动。会议特别强调整体研究环境的改善、核心中心成功地吸引新的研究人员和项目进入视觉研究，以及合作努力的成功。审查了模块的时间日志，并检查了有关进入每个设施的问题。执行委员会还审议了如何通过改变或增加服务来增强模块的影响。这些审议的结果是决定修改分子生物学模块提供的服务并建立功能评估模块。NEI-R01资助的调查人员优先使用这些设施。其他研究人员，特别是那些获得NEI其他研究奖项的人，以及那些与NEI资助的研究人员合作的人，是下一个优先考虑的问题。在时间允许的情况下，这些模块可以被参与视觉研究的其他个人使用，通过这种使用，新的研究人员被鼓励从事与视觉相关的研究并开发试点数据来支持NEI拨款申请。这些程序和优先事项运作良好，没有出现重大问题或争端。私人投资委员会和执行委员会迅速解决了与出入或人事问题有关的几个小问题，使所有人都满意。 因此，PI和核心中心执行委员会共同承担责任，确保所有密歇根大学视觉科学家有效和高效地利用核心模块和设施。此外，我们积极努力确保视觉研究界的所有成员都知道这些资源，并将其用于其研究项目。设立了三个机制，向参与调查人员和潜在用户通报核心中心模块提供的资源和服务。首先，我们在凯洛格眼科中心网站(http://www.kelloqq.umich.edu/research/facilities.html).内维护视力核心中心网站该网站包括核心模块及其功能、我们的视力研究培训计划、视力研究研讨会以及我们教员的基础和临床研究领域的链接。其次，PI、模块总监和模块工作人员每年在视觉研究研讨会的固定时间段向视觉研究社区介绍一次核心中心模块的概述。第三，通过电子邮件向整个VISION研究社区宣布新的核心模块仪器和服务的供应。最后，在准备这项提案之前，与参与调查人员进行了一系列讨论，以确定最适合VISION社区的研究需求的资源和服务，特别是具有现有的和正在进行的NEI R01研究项目的成员。根据这一反馈，核心中心执行委员会对分子生物学模块提供的服务进行了修改，并建立了新的功能评估模块。

Administrative Component 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 PI and the Core Center Executive Committee. This committee consists of the PI as chair, the six Module directors and co-director, and Peter Hitchcock, Ph.D., chair of the Research Committee in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and director of our T32 program. Bret A. Hughes, Ph.D., a long-standing NEI R01 holder, has served as Principal Investigator of this Core Center for Vision Research for the past thirteen years and is intimately involved with the overall and day-to-day 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 Modules are reviewed and issues regarding access to each facility are examined. The Executive Committee also considers how the impact of Modules might be enhanced by changing or adding services. Such deliberations resulted in the decisions to modify the services provided by the Molecular Biology Module and to establish the Functional Assessment Module. NEI-R01 funded investigators have priority in use of the facilities. Other researchers, especially those with other NEI research awards and those collaborating with NEI-funded researchers are next in order of priority. Time permitting, the Modules can be used by other individuals involved in vision research, and through such usage, new investigators are 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 PI and Executive Committee. Thus, the PI 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.kelloqq.umich.edu/research/facilities.html). This website includes links to the Core Modules and their capabilities, our vision research training program, vision research seminars, and the areas of basic and clinical research of our faculty. Second, once a year, the PI, Module Directors, and Module staff present an overview of the Core Center Modules to the vision research community during the regular time slot for the vision research seminar. Third, the availability of new Core Module instrumentation and services is announced by e-mail to the entire vision research community. Finally, in advance of the preparation of this proposal, a series of discussions with participating investigators was conducted to determine the resources and services that best fit the research needs of the vision community, particularly members with existing and pending NEI R01 research projects. As a result of this feedback, the Core Center Executive Committee made changes to the services provided by the Molecular Biology Module and the new Functional Assessment Module was established.