COMMON INSTRUMENTATION AREA AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT UNIT

这个子项目是许多研究子项目中利用 资源由NIH/NCRR资助的中心拨款提供。子项目和 调查员(PI)可能从NIH的另一个来源获得了主要资金， 并因此可以在其他清晰的条目中表示。列出的机构是 该中心不一定是调查人员的机构。 共同仪器领域和服务股(CIAS)的目标是为UCC的研究人员提供开发和执行高质量研究项目所需的主要设备和服务。有超过25名非常活跃的调查人员(其中许多人的项目由RCMI、SNRP、MBRS、国防部、INBRE和CNS资助)，他们严重依赖这一核心设施。CIAS配备了高速和超离心机、凝胶记录系统、闪烁计数器、伽马计数器、水蒸馏器和冰机等仪器，这些都是大学其他地方没有的，因此，CIAS促进了设备共享并集中维护设备。此外，CIAS为没有自己实验室设施的新老研究人员提供了一个共同的细胞培养室，并为有细胞培养罩和孵化器的调查人员提供了后备设施。在CIAS的保护伞下，有一个机械车间和一个电子车间。这些讲习班由两名技术人员负责，他们致力于满足UCC科学界的需求。在这项建议中，我们要求拨款，以继续保存和提升RCMI最初资助的现有设施和资源，包括共用仪器、电子设备车间和机械车间。以下具体目标构成了我们维护、加强和扩大我们的科学研究基础设施的计划的基础。 目标1：为UCC教职员工提供成为多产研究人员所需的设备。 目标2：更新现有仪器。 目标3：开发设备校准服务 目标4：继续经营电子车间和精密机械/木工车间零部件。 目标5：继续设施监测系统(FMS)。

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. The Common Instrumentation Area and Services Unit (CIAS) has the objective of providing the investigators at UCC with the major equipment and services that are needed for developing and executing high quality research projects. There are over 25 very active investigators (many with projects funded by RCMI, SNRP, MBRS, DOD, INBRE and CNS) who rely heavily on this core facility. The CIAS houses instrumentation such as high speed and ultra-centrifuges, a gel documentation system, a scintillation counter, a gamma counter, water distillers and ice machines that are not available elsewhere at the University and therefore, the CIAS fosters equipment sharing and centralizes maintenance of equipment. In addition, the CIAS provides a common cell culture room for new and established investigators who do not have the facilities in their own laboratories and as a backup facility for investigators with cell culture hoods and incubators. Under the umbrella of the CIAS, there is a machine shop and an electronics workshop. These workshops are maintained by two technicians who are dedicated to fulfilling the needs of the scientific community at UCC. In this proposal, we request funding to continue to conserve and upgrade the existing facilities and resources initially funded by RCMI including the common instrumentation, the electronics shop and the machine shop. The following specific aims form the basis of our plan to maintain, fortify and expand our infrastructure for scientific research. Aim #1: to provide UCC faculty with the necessary equipment to be productive researchers. Aim #2: to update the existing instrumentation. Aim #3: to develop an equipment calibration service Aim #4: to continue the electronics workshop and precision machine/carpentry shop components. Aim #5: to continue the Facilities Monitoring System (FMS).