Administrative Core

行政核心的总体目的是帮助确保我们的COBRE资助的研究人员的成功，这些研究人员专注于确定神经退行性疾病的潜在机制，并确定这些毁灭性疾病的可能治疗方法。在当前的资助环境下，成功取决于许多因素，包括能否获得足够的空间，以促进互动和培养优秀的科学、优秀的指导、获得现代技术，以及拥有一个可以与之合作的研究人员核心。因此，我们认为一个协调一致的人的努力是必不可少的进一步建设我们的研究事业。因此，行政核心将支持我们集团活动的许多重要方面，包括(1)维持集中订购，拨款会计和成本中心系统，(2)支持我们的试点研究拨款计划，(3)支持我们的质谱和成像核心设施及其相关的成本中心，(4)培训研究人员如何最好地利用我们的核心提供给他们的先进技术。(5)支持我们的客座演讲者研讨会系列，(6)支持特定的神经科学相关的医学和健康科学学院图书馆采购，(7)组织我们的年度神经科学研讨会，(8)促进三个北达科他州COBRE资助小组之间的年度会议和各自小组中个人之间的合作，(9)支持由内部咨询委员会和外部咨询委员会成员积极参与的指导项目。作为导师计划的一部分，我们将定期召开会议，重点讨论科学、科学合作、以教师为导向的生存技能、拨款写作以及获得资金以实现个人和团体的成功。我们相信，通过这种坚定的互动，我们的初级和中级教师将会提升他们的职业生涯，越来越多地发表论文，越来越多地获得资助，并最终将这个神经退行性疾病研究小组建设成为国际知名的研究小组之一。

The overall purpose of the Administrative Core is to help ensure the success of our COBRE grant supported investigators focused to determine mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative diseases and to identify possible treatments for these devastating illnesses. In the context of the current fight funding environment, success depends on many factors including having access to adequate space that is designed to facilitate interactions and foster excellent science, excellent mentorship, access to modern technologies, and having a nucleus of researchers with whom to collaborate. Thus, we view a concerted human effort as being essential to building further our research enterprise. Accordingly, the Administrative Core will support many essential aspects of our group's activities including (1) maintaining a centralized ordering, grant accounting and cost center system, (2) supporting our pilot research grant program, (3) supporting our mass spectrometry and imaging core facilities and their associated cost centers, (4) training investigators in how best to take advantage of the advanced technologies available to them in our Cores, (5) supporting our visiting speaker seminar series, (6) supporting specific neuroscience-related School of Medicine and Health Sciences library acquisitions, (7) organizing our annual neuroscience symposium, (8) fostering annual meetings between the three North Dakota COBRE grant supported groups and collaborations between individuals in the respective groups, and (9) supporting mentorship programs for which members of our Internal Advisory Committee and our External Advisory Board play active roles. As part of our mentorship program we will have regular meetings focusing on science, scientific collaborations, faculty-orientated survival skills, grant writing, and obtaining funding to build individual and group success. We are confident that our junior and mid-level faculty will, as a result of such committed interactions, advance their careers, increasingly publish, increasingly receive grant funding, and ultimately build this neurodegenerative disease research group to one of increased international prominence.