Instrumentation Core

项目摘要：检测服务模块 范德比尔特视力研究中心(VVRC)包括对以下方面有浓厚兴趣的教职员工 辨别视觉回路和行为、皮质结构和生理之间的关系，以及 大脑区域和感知/行为之间的关系。这些细胞和系统级别的调查需要 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体实验。VVRC的目的 仪表模块是要为客户提供全方位的设计、制造、维护、 设备的维修和电子编程以及接口，以确保正在进行的 需要定制服务的试验，要么商业上无法获得，要么昂贵得令人望而却步。这个 仪器模块不仅提供定制设备的机械车间制造，而且还提供电子和 设备数字接口系统工程。此模块是VVRC内部核心，不是 VUMC机构设施；因此，该服务是根据VVRC成员的请求而不是通过 VUMC办公室研究奖学金平台。在本供资期间，仪表组 提供资源，支持14名调查员，使用该服务出版了68份出版物。 这些都在我们的进度报告核心出版物(按调查员)文件中作了说明。的可用性 此模块在当前期间为VVRC调查人员节省了513,070美元的机械师和系统工程师费用 否则将不得不通过商业手段获得的成本。一项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人适度或广泛使用这项服务。这个 仪器模块，位于VVRC附近霍布斯大楼2000平方英尺的机械车间内 调查人员在威尔逊大厅靠近主要用户的地方增加了电子商店空间(160平方英尺)，由 VVRC调查员杰弗里·伍德曼博士。使用这个核心部分支持的空间和人员 VVRC仪器模块将：(1)设计和制造定制设备，(2)设计， 制作和编程定制界面系统，(3)维护和维修VVRC的现有设备 实验室，以及(4)根据VVRC教员的需要修改和改进设备和数字接口组件 进化。这些服务和资源将扩大NEI资助的VVRC的试验范围 调查人员通过创建专门的设备和接口来引导和促进创新 组件，并通过向那些本来会提供工具支持的人提供工具支持来增强协作 没有这样的能力，包括职业生涯早期的视力科学家和临床医生科学家竞争 为他们的实验室提供外部资金。

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.