Behavioral Neuroscience Research Core

项目总结 目前的行为神经科学(BN)核心设施设在心理科学系 在堪萨斯州立大学(KSU)，是堪萨斯州唯一专门从事心理学的BN核心。英国国民阵线 核心设施将通过进行改造和翻新，以及增加 主要设备项目，以扩大设施的能力。国阵核心是一个功能齐全的研究核心 它是在20世纪80年代初特意建造的，目前为包括BN博士项目在内的20-30名用户提供服务。 核心设施的改进将集中在手术、显微镜、湿实验室和笼子清洗设施上。 升级将扩大该设施可用技术的范围，允许包括切割- 将前沿技术纳入当前和未来的研究计划。核心是由斯蒂芬·基弗博士执导的， 全国知名的行为神经科学研究员，研究味觉反应和酗酒问题。Dr。 柯克帕特里克(科布雷PI/PD)将担任核心副主任，以提供更多的高级领导。 额外的培训和指导将由Cobre指导小组、外部咨询委员会提供 成员，以及来自KSU的BN协作网络的成员。兽医技术员将每天为您提供 设施清洁和维护，并将满足设施用户的动物护理和畜牧业需求。英国国民阵线 CORE将直接支持两个主要项目(凯恩和皮肯斯)、当前的用户社区(包括 初级专业人员/博士后)、潜在的试点补助金获得者以及新教师、博士后研究员(S)和研究生的增加 学生们。核心设施的扩建还将支持认知和神经生物学方法 可塑性(C-NAP)中心计划为博士后培训提供良好的培训环境 计划并促进科学交流网络(SEN)培训。最重要的是国阵核心 升级将改善KSU动物模型研究的研究基础设施。总体而言，国阵核心设施 将为实现国家行动方案总体目标提供一个重要组成部分，它将作出重要贡献 对于可塑性动物模型的成功和成长，这是C-NAP的核心组成部分。

PROJECT SUMMARY The current Behavioral Neuroscience (BN) core facility, housed within the Department of Psychological Sciences at Kansas State University (KSU), is the only dedicated BN core in Psychology in the State of Kansas. The BN core facility will be modernized and augmented through conducting alterations and renovations, and adding major equipment items to expand the capabilities of the facility. The BN core is a fully functional research core that was purpose-built in the early 1980s, and currently services 20-30 users including the BN PhD program. The core facility improvements will focus on the surgery, microscopy, wet laboratory, and cage wash facilities. The upgrades will expand the range of technologies available in the facility, allowing for the inclusion of cutting- edge techniques into current and future research programs. The core is directed by Dr. Stephen Kiefer, a nationally-known researcher in Behavioral Neuroscience in the area of taste-reactivity and alcohol abuse. Dr. Kirkpatrick (the COBRE PI/PD) will serve as associate director of the core to provide additional senior leadership. Additional training and mentoring will be supplied by the COBRE mentoring team, external advisory committee members, and members from the BN collaborative network at KSU. A veterinary technician will provide daily facility cleaning and maintenance, and will meet the animal care and husbandry needs of facility users. The BN core will directly support two of the primary projects (Cain and Pickens), the current community of users (including the PI/PD), potential pilot grant holders, and the additions of new faculty, post-doctoral fellow(s) and graduate students. The expansion of the core facilities will also support Cognitive and Neurobiological Approaches to Plasticity (C-NAP) center programs by providing an excellent training environment for the post-doctoral training program and contributing to the scientific exchange network (SEN) training. Most importantly the BN core upgrades will improve the research infrastructure for animal model research at KSU. Overall, the BN core facility will provide an important component to the attainment of the C-NAP overarching aims by contributing importantly to the success and growth of animal models of plasticity, a central component of C-NAP.