CENTER FOR VISUAL AND COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE: ADMINISTRATIVE CORE

视觉和认知神经科学中心：管理核心

基本信息

批准号：
8360674
负责人：
MARK E. McCourt
金额：
$ 120.68万
依托单位：
NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2011
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2011-08-25 至 2012-08-24
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8360674
关键词：
Advisory Committees Automobile Driving Behavior Centers of Research Excellence Cognitive Commit Complement Core Facility Development Educational process of instructing Electroencephalography Faculty Freedom Funding Future Grant Illinois Image Laboratories Left Measures Mentors National Center for Research Resources Nervous System Physiology North Dakota Pilot Projects Postdoctoral Fellow Principal Investigator Recruitment Activity Research Research Activity Research Infrastructure Research Personnel Research Project Grants Research Support Resources Scientist Source Structure Students Talents Time United States National Institutes of Health Universities Visual Work biobehavior cognitive neuroscience cost density graduate student instrumentation interest laboratory facility member parent grant post-doctoral training programs simulation success virtual reality visual neuroscience

项目摘要

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. Primary support for the subproject and the subproject's principal investigator may have been provided by other sources, including other NIH sources. The Total Cost listed for the subproject likely represents the estimated amount of Center infrastructure utilized by the subproject, not direct funding provided by the NCRR grant to the subproject or subproject staff. A. COBRE Specific Aims Specific Aim 1: To develop successful, independent, self-sustaining research projects for COBRE Project Directors which will enable future success in obtaining R01 funding. This aim is being accomplished by providing COBRE support to four Primary Projects and by establishing a Pilot Project Mechanism to stimulate interest in and recruit additional talent in visual and cognitive neuroscience. These research activities are nurtured and sustained by an Administrative Core consisting of the PI/PD, a two-member Internal Advisory Committee, a three-member External Advisory Committee, and five world-class scientists who serve as Primary Project Mentors. Three of the four Primary Projects are progressing nicely. The Project Director of the fourth project (Teder) has resigned from NDSU and we describe plans to reassign this project to another CVCN faculty member (Blakeslee). CVCN support has allowed Primary and Pilot Project Directors freedom from some teaching obligations during the past year, and these investigators have taken advantage of this opportunity to spend additional time in their laboratories working with graduate and undergraduate students, and with CVCN professional staff, to advance their research programs. Several supplements to the parent grant have allowed additional research progress to occur. The External Advisory Committee review of CVCN activities indicates we are making satisfactory progress. Specific Aim 2: To enhance the biobehavioral research infrastructure at NDSU through the development of multi-user CORE laboratory facilities. We are accomplishing this aim by continuing to develop and support six multiuser Core laboratory facilities: 1) High-Density EEG Core Facility; 2) High Dynamic Range Imaging Core Facility; 3) Immersive Virtual Reality Core Facility; 4) Driving Simulation Core Facility; 5) Eyetracking Core Facility; and 6) ElectroOptical Instrumentation Core Facility. CVCN faculty and students utilize these facilities to measure relationships between the structure and function of the nervous system and the behavior it governs. Users of the Core facilities are assisted by COBRE-supported technical professional staff. Specific Aim 3: To expand NDSU's research capability in visual and cognitive neuroscience by recruiting new faculty with research expertise in visual or cognitive neuroscience. In COBRE I we accomplished this aim by creating two new appropriated faculty lines (originally filled by Drs. Rainville and Teder (Note: Dr. Rainville was replaced by Dr. Ben Balas beginning 1/11, and Dr. Teder has recently resigned). We recently successfully recruited a new CVCN faculty member, Dr. Laura Thomas (doctorate from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana; postdoctoral training at Vanderbilt University). Dr. Thomas will join the CVCN beginning 8/11, and will augment our critical mass of research talent to help sustain the CVCN beyond the initial years of COBRE support. Next year we will initiate national searches for two additional faculty: one to replace Dr. Teder, and another to replace Dr. Chris Kelland Friesen, who was not granted tenure and has left NDSU. At full strength the NDSU CVCN has a complement of 11 visual/cognitive faculty neuroscientists, 2-3 Postdoctoral Research Associates, and approximately 12 graduate students. Specific Aim 4: To establish a nationally recognized Center for Visual and Cognitive Neuroscience at North Dakota State University. The realization of Specific Aims 1-3 will create a center of research excellence at NDSU which will attract additional quality faculty with a strong potential for independent research support, as well as postdoctoral research associates, graduate students, and undergraduates committed to timely and important research in visual and cognitive neuroscience.

该子项目是利用资源的众多研究子项目之一由 NIH/NCRR 资助的中心拨款提供。子项目的主要支持并且子项目的主要研究者可能是由其他来源提供的，包括其他 NIH 来源。子项目可能列出的总成本代表子项目使用的中心基础设施的估计数量， NCRR 赠款不直接向子项目或子项目工作人员提供资金。 A. COBRE 具体目标具体目标 1：为 COBRE 项目总监开发成功、独立、自我维持的研究项目，这将使未来能够成功获得 R01 资金。这一目标是通过向四个主要项目提供 COBRE 支持以及建立试点项目机制来激发人们对视觉和认知神经科学的兴趣并招募更多人才来实现的。这些研究活动由一个行政核心培育和维持，该核心由 PI/PD、两名成员的内部咨询委员会、三名成员的外部咨询委员会以及担任主要项目导师的五名世界级科学家组成。四个主要项目中的三个进展顺利。第四个项目的项目总监 (Teder) 已从 NDSU 辞职，我们描述了将该项目重新分配给另一位 CVCN 教员 (Blakeslee) 的计划。 CVCN 的支持使主要项目主任和试点项目主任在过去一年中摆脱了一些教学义务，这些研究人员利用这个机会在实验室中花费更多时间与研究生和本科生以及 CVCN 专业人员一起工作，以推进他们的研究计划。对家长资助的一些补充使得更多的研究进展得以发生。外部咨询委员会对 CVCN 活动的审查表明我们正在取得令人满意的进展。具体目标 2：通过开发多用户核心实验室设施来加强 NDSU 的生物行为研究基础设施。我们通过继续开发和支持六个多用户核心实验室设施来实现这一目标：1）高密度脑电图核心设施； 2）高动态范围成像核心设施； 3）沉浸式虚拟现实核心设施； 4）驾驶模拟核心设施； 5）眼球追踪核心设施； 6) 光电仪器核心设施。 CVCN 教职员工和学生利用这些设施来测量神经系统的结构和功能及其控制的行为之间的关系。核心设施的用户得到 COBRE 支持的专业技术人员的协助。具体目标 3：通过招募具有视觉或认知神经科学研究专业知识的新教师，扩大 NDSU 在视觉和认知神经科学方面的研究能力。在 COBRE I 中，我们通过创建两个新的专职教师队伍（最初由 Rainville 博士和 Teder 博士填补）来实现这一目标（注：从 1 月 11 日开始，Rainville 博士被 Ben Balas 博士取代，而 Teder 博士最近已辞职）。我们最近成功招募了一位新的CVCN教员，Laura Thomas博士（伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳香槟分校博士；范德比尔特大学博士后培训）。从 8 月 11 日开始加入 CVCN，并将增加我们的关键研究人才数量，以帮助维持 CVCN 超出 COBRE 支持的最初几年。明年，我们将在全国范围内寻找另外两名教职人员：一名取代泰德博士，以及一名。另一位接替 Chris Kelland Friesen 博士，后者没有获得终身教职并已离开 NDSU。 NDSU CVCN 拥有 11 名视觉/认知系神经科学家，数量为 2-3。博士后研究员和大约 12 名研究生。具体目标 4：在北达科他州立大学建立国家认可的视觉和认知神经科学中心。具体目标 1-3 的实现将在 NDSU 创建一个卓越研究中心，该中心将吸引更多具有独立研究支持潜力的优质教师，以及致力于及时和重要研究的博士后研究员、研究生和本科生在视觉和认知神经科学领域。