Instrumentation Core

项目概要：仪器服务MOTORY 范德比尔特视觉研究中心（VVRC）包括对以下方面有浓厚兴趣的研究人员： 辨别视觉回路和行为之间的关系，皮层结构和生理之间的关系， 大脑区域和感知/行为之间的联系。这些细胞级和系统级的调查需要 访问定制设备和接口的专家设计、制造、数字编程和维护 系统，特别是用于非人类灵长类动物和人类实验。VVRC的目的 仪表模块是提供一个全面的服务，为设计，制造，维护， 维修和电子编程和设备接口，以确保持续的完整性 需要定制服务的实验在商业上不可用或过于昂贵。的 仪表模块不仅提供定制设备的机加工车间制造，还提供电子和 设备数字接口的系统工程。此模块是VVRC固有核心，不属于 一个VUMC机构设施;因此，该服务是根据要求提供给VVRC成员，而不是通过 研究奖学金平台的VUMC办公室。在本供资期内， 提供资源，支助14名调查员，通过使用该处出版了68份出版物。 这些在我们的研究者进展报告核心出版物文件中指出。可用性 本报告所述期间，该模块为VVRC调查员节省了513 070美元的机械师和系统工程师费用 否则必须通过商业途径获得的成本。对研究人员计划的调查表明， 这项服务的使用将增加，36名VVRC调查员中有22名将中度至广泛使用这项服务。的 仪表模块，位于VVRC附近霍布斯大楼2000平方英尺的机械车间内 调查人员与额外的电子商店空间（160平方英尺）在威尔逊大厅附近的主要用户，是由 VVRC研究员Geoffrey Woodman博士。利用这一空间和人员支持的部分核心 机械，VVRC仪表模块将：（1）设计和制造定制设备，（2）设计， 制造和编程定制接口系统，（3）维护和维修VVRC现有设备 实验室，以及（4）修改和完善设备和数字接口组件作为VVRC教师的需要 进化这些服务和资源将扩大NEI资助的VVRC的实验范围 调查人员通过创建专门设备和接口来进行和促进创新 组件，并通过向那些否则将 没有这样的能力，包括早期职业视觉科学家和临床科学家竞争， 为他们的实验室提供校外资金。

PROJECT SUMMARY: INSTRUMENTATION SERVICE MODULE The Vanderbilt Vision Research Center (VVRC) includes faculty investigators with strong interest in discerning relationships between visual circuits and behavior, between cortical structures and physiology, and between brain regions and perception/behavior. These cellular- and systems-level investigations require access to expert design, fabrication, digital programming and maintenance of custom equipment and interface systems, especially for the use of non-human primates and human experimentation. The purpose of the VVRC Instrumentation Module is to is to provide a comprehensive service for the design, fabrication, maintenance, repair and electronic programming and interfacing of equipment to ensure the integrity of ongoing experimentation requiring custom services either unavailable commercially or prohibitively expensive. The Instrumentation Module provides not only machine shop fabrication of custom equipment, but electronics and systems engineering for digital interfacing of equipment. This module is a VVRC-intrinsic core and is not part of a VUMC institutional facility; therefore, the service is provided to VVRC members by request and not through the VUMC Office of Research scholarship platform. In the current funding period the instrumentation module contributed resources in support of 14 investigators with 68 publications resulting from use of the service. These are indicated as such in our Progress Report Core Publications by Investigator document. Availability of this module during the current period saved VVRC investigators $513,070 in machinist and systems engineer costs that otherwise would have to be obtained commercially. A survey of researcher plans indicates that the use of this service will increase, with moderate to extensive use by 22 of 36 VVRC investigators. The instrumentation module, housed in 2000 sq ft of machine shop in the Hobbs Building proximal to VVRC investigators with additional electronics shop space (160 sq ft) in Wilson Hall near primary users, is directed by VVRC Investigator Geoffrey Woodman, PhD. Using this space and personnel supported in part by this Core mechanism, the VVRC Instrumentation Module will: (1) design and fabricate custom equipment, (2) design, fabricate and program custom interface systems, (3) maintain and repair existing equipment in VVRC laboratories, and (4) modify and refine equipment and digital interface components as VVRC faculty needs evolve. These services and resources will enhance the scope of experimentation NEI-funded VVRC investigators conduct, promote innovation through creation of specialized equipment and interface components, and enhance collaboration by providing instrumentation support to those who otherwise would not have such capabilities, including early-career vision scientists and clinician-scientists competing for extramural funding for their laboratories.