Core Center: NIDCD Research Core Center P30

描述（由申请人提供）：支持要求在佛罗里达大学（UF）和佛罗里达州立大学（FSU）通过创建UF/FSU化学传感器研究核心中心，在东南部的第一个这样的中心整合化学传感器的基础研究专业知识。该提案设立了一个行政核心和两个研究核心，一个在工程学领域，一个在遗传学领域，为这两个机构主要由NIDCD资助的化学感官研究提供“增值”。该研究基地由六名合格的和八名支持的化学传感器研究人员组成，以及其他三名也将从研究核心中受益的听觉研究人员。两个相关的研究主题统一的研究基础，控制摄食行为的化学感觉处理和嗅觉输入的检测和处理。该领域的两位科学领导人在各自的机构中有着有效合作的历史，他们锚了这一倡议。通过在每个机构建立办公空间供另一机构的科学家使用、在每个机构建立专用的电视会议设施以及利用用友基金的防治荒漠化所支助的安全数据分享网络，促进了相互作用。核心中心的概念框架紧密结合它与用友中心的营养和口味的NIDCD支持的化学感觉临床研究计划，重点研究化学感觉系统在摄食行为及其对人类健康的影响的功能作用。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Support is requested to integrate the basic research expertise in the chemical senses at the University of Florida (UF) and Florida State University (FSU) by creating the UF/FSU Chemosensory Research Core Center; the first such center in the Southeast. The proposal creates an administrative Core and two research Cores, one in Engineering and one in Genetics, to provide 'value added' to the mostly NIDCD-funded chemical senses research at the two institutions. The research base consists of six qualifying and eight supporting chemosensory investigators, together with three other auditory investigators who will also benefit from the research Cores. Two related research themes unite the research base, chemosensory processing controlling ingestive behavior and the detection and processing of olfactory input. Two scientific leaders in the field who have a proven history of working effectively together anchor the initiative at the respective institutions. Interaction is facilitated by establishing office space at each institution for use by scientists from the other institution, by establishing dedicated videoconferencing facilities at each institution, and by using UF's NIDCD-supported secure data sharing network. The conceptual framework of the Core Center closely aligns it with that of the UF Center for Smell and Taste's NIDCD-supported Chemosensory Clinical Research Program, which focuses on studying the functional role of chemosensory systems in ingestive behavior and its impact on human health.