To maintain a productive, highly effective feasibility project program. The Director and Deputy Director of the Center work together to attract new scientists into the Center and to foster significant collaboration among its researchers.
Potential members come largely from the biomedical community familiar with mammalian model systems.
So, to interest these investigators in aquatic models requires discussions to determine whether such systems might offer advantages for their experimental work, introductory work at the Center to probe their actual utility, and significant support in our core facilities to help these scientists embrace the use of new, sometimes quite foreign organisms in their research. The Administrative Core also focuses on developing the resource base of the Center so that investigators have an outstanding physical facility in which to work. Recently, the Molecular Biology Core Facility expanded to include a suite of microscopic instrumentation including upright nd inverted Olympus microscopes, digital cameras, imaging software, and the Meridian fluorescence system for ratiometric analysis of fluorescent molecular probes. Flourishing interdisciplinary coordination is a root objective in the Center. Many features of the Center support extensive scientific interactions among investigators.