BEHAVIORAL TESTING FACILITY (BTF)

行为测试设施 (BTF)

• 批准号: 9281280
• 负责人: LEGIER V ROJAS
• 金额: $ 6.56万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DEL CARIBE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-07-01 至 2017-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9281280
• 关键词: Address; Animal Behavior; Animals; Area; Basic Science; Behavioral; Biomedical Research; Clinical; Communities; Computer software; Core Facility; Data; Development; Environment; Equipment; Fostering; Goals; Human; Human Resources; Internet; Marketing; Methodology; Methods; Minority-Serving Institution; Phenotype; Protocols documentation; Puerto Rico; Research; Research Assistant; Research Personnel; Scientist; Services; Training; Translational Research; Universities; Update; Work; base; behavior test; health disparity; research study

Behavioral Testing Facility The main goal of the Behavioral Testing Facility (BTF) is to cover a need associated with the development of the basic sciences and clinical community at the Universidad Central del Caribe (UCC). Additionally, BTF has extended its services to all Puerto Rico's entire scientific community. We are proposing five specific aims for the renewal proposal. Specific Aim 1. To foster the usage of BTF by basic scientists and clinicians in Puerto Rico. Enhancement in the use of the facility will be addressed by the integration of two additional functional units within the BTF core: the Human Behavioral Phenotyping Unit (HBPU) and the Animal Behavioral Phenotyping Unit (ABPU). Specific Aim 2. To continue providing highly productive working conditions for the use of the existing equipment and the environment necessary for both ongoing and new projects oriented to translational research. Specific Aim 3. To continue the training of research assistants and other personnel and BTF's users in methods, equipment, experimental protocols and software used in behavioral experiments. This training will include new internet based methodologies to provide even greater access to our facilities. Specific Aim 4. To intensify the collaborative research at the UCC community, and between UCC and other local and Continental USA Universities, by effectively marketing the facility through the cooperative research network "Research Centers in Minority Institutions Translational Research Network" (http://www.rtrn.net) which is facilitating the translational research in health disparity areas. Specific Aim 5. To help the scientific community involved in experiments to acquire data and visualize animal behavior and/or psychomotor alteration related to translational research by maintaining updated the analytical methodologies. Our Behavioral Testing Facility has served > 30 researchers, and currently 10 investigators are using the facility Four new proposals recently submitted to federal agencies are including usage of BTF in their experiments.

行为测试设施 行为测试设施 (BTF) 的主要目标是满足与加勒比中央大学 (UCC) 基础科学和临床社区发展相关的需求。此外，BTF 已将其服务扩展到波多黎各的整个科学界。我们为更新提案提出了五个具体目标。 具体目标 1. 促进波多黎各基础科学家和临床医生对 BTF 的使用。通过在 BTF 核心内整合两个额外的功能单元来增强该设施的使用：人类行为表型单元 (HBPU) 和动物行为表型单元 (ABPU)。 具体目标 2. 继续为现有设备的使用提供高效的工作条件以及正在进行的和新的转化研究项目所需的环境。具体目标 3. 继续对研究助理和其他人员以及 BTF 用户进行行为实验中使用的方法、设备、实验方案和软件的培训。该培训将包括基于互联网的新方法，以提供对我们设施的更多访问。 具体目标 4. 通过合作研究网络“少数族裔机构研究中心转化研究网络”(http:// www.rtrn.net）正在促进健康差距领域的转化研究。具体目标 5. 帮助参与实验的科学界获取数据并可视化动物行为和/或精神运动 通过保持更新的分析方法来改变与转化研究相关的变化。我们的行为测试设施已为超过 30 名研究人员提供服务，目前有 10 名研究人员正在使用该设施。最近向联邦机构提交的四项新提案包括在他们的实验中使用 BTF。