Core Support for Vision Research at Indiana University

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请的长期目标是支持印第安纳大学布卢明顿分校当前和未来的视觉研究工作。这项基础设施赠款为三个共享资源模块提供支持：电子、机械车间和科学计算。这些模块将扩展机械、电子和软件组件在定制研究设备和新临床技术中的无缝集成，并为众多相互关联的实验室提供新的活动协调，并与校园内先进的超级计算和3D可视化资源进行持续互动。我们的视觉研究项目应用广泛，包括显微镜和眼荧光学，细胞生理学和分子生物学，眼睛光学的高级测量和建模。正常和病理活人眼结构的新成像，正常和异常发育的人类视觉系统的研究，以及在临床环境中评估视觉功能的新定量策略的发展。本地的研究环境在过去八年中扩大到包括七个新的活跃实验室，预计在未来三年内至少还会有三个。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The long-term objective of this application is to support current and future vision research endeavors at Indiana University, Bloomington. This infrastructure grant provides support for three shared resource modules: electronics, machine shop and scientific computing. The modules will expand the seamless integration of mechanical, electronics and software components in custom research equipment and new clinical technology, plus provide new coordination of activity across numerous inter-related laboratories and a sustained interaction with sophisticated supercomputing and 3D visualization resources on campus. The applications to our vision research projects are broad, including microscopic and ocular fluorimetry, cell physiology and molecular biology, advanced measurement and modeling of the optics of the eye. Novel imaging of the structures of the normal and pathological living human eye, studies of the normal and abnormal developing human visual system, and the development of new quantitative strategies to assess visual function in a clinical setting. The local research environment has expanded to include seven new active laboratories during the past eight years and at least three more are anticipated in the next three years.