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VRC services are generally available to Penn NEI grant holders. Some limited funds are available to support pilot research expected to lead to an NEI grant proposal/renewal. If you have such a project, please send us (peter@retina.anatomy.upenn.edu; brainard@psych.upenn.edu) an email request for approval in advance of using the services. The email should include a short description of the project and services requested. A summary of the modules and procedures follows. Services for all modules are available to all VRC members, with your primary point of contact being the module director listed below. Please remember to acknowledge the support of the core grant in any publications that describe work that received support from it (P30 EY001583). Please feel free to contact us with any questions or suggestions. Peter Sterling:
peter@retina.anatomy.upenn.edu; 215-898-9228
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| Dr. Peter Sterling, Director | Dr. David Brainard, Co-director |
123 Anatomy-Chemistry/6058 peter@retina.anatomy.upenn.edu 215-898-9228 |
315C 3401 Walnut/6228 brainard@mail.med.upenn.edu 215-573-7579 |
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List of University of Pennsylvania facilities associated with the Vision Research Center:
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| Biostatistics | |
Mary Brightwell-Arnold, Director 3535 Market, Ste 700/3309 maryba@mail.med.upenn.edu 215-615-1504 |
Dr. Gui-Shuang Ying, Faculty Consultant 3535 Market, Ste 700/3309 gsying@mail.med.upenn..edu 215-615-1514 |
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Consultation in Clinical Trial and Experimental Design and analysis of statistical data. No co-pay required at present.
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| Computation | |
Richard Zorger, Director 117A Anatomy-Chemistry/6058 zorger@mail.med.upenn.edu 215-573-9022 |
Dr. Robert G. Smith, Faculty Consultant 122F Anatomy-Chemistry/6058 rob@retina.anatomy.upenn.edu 215-573-3211 |
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Assistance with computer hardware, software and communications. No co-pay required at present.
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| Illustration | |
Mary Leonard, Director 79D John Morgan mleonard@mail.med.upenn.edu 215-898-0874 |
Dr. Ed Pugh, Faculty Consultant BRB I/6100 pugh@mail.med.upenn.edu 215-898-2403 |
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Preparation of scientific drawing, photography, posters, and slides. VRC will pay 50% of standard costs, with 50% co-pay coming from individual investigators' NEI grants. In addition, any rush charges must be paid from the individual's grant.
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| Instrumentation\Electronics | |
Fred C Letterio, Director Machine Shop 21 LL/6018 letterio@mail.med.upenn.edu 215-898-7127 |
Dr. David Brainard, Faculty Consultant 315C 3401 Walnut/6228 brainard@mail.med.upenn.edu 215-573-7579 |
John A Labenski, Director Electronics Shop A15 Solomon Labs jala@psych.upenn.edu 215-898-8092 |
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Design and fabrication of special purpose, novel instrumentation. VRC will pay 70% of labor costs, with 30% labor and 100% of materials costs to be covered by investigators' grants. The shops will provide a rough estimate of costs towards the start of each job, but because of the unique nature of each job these should be regarded as ballpark numbers to guide decision making, not as binding contracts.
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| Molecular Biology | |
Ryan Gruber, Director 315 Stellar Chance/6100 ryanbg@mail.med.upenn.edu 215-898-9838 |
Dr. Dwight Stambolian, Faculty Consultant 313 Stellar Chance/6100 stamboli@mail.med.upenn.edu 215-898-0305 |
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DNA sequencing and gene mapping.VRC will pay roughly 85% of the cost per sample. At present we estimate the cost per sample to be about $15 and will set the grant co-pay at $2.50 per sample. We will adjust this as needed to reflect actual costs. This module is also being augmented with a real-time PCR machine; details to follow once it is up and running.
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| Electrophysiology/Imaging | |
Dr. Noga Vardi / Dr. Michael Freed, Directors |
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122B Anatomy-Chemistry/6058 noga@retina.anatomy.upenn.edu 215-898-4520 |
122E Anatomy-Chemistry/6058 michael@retina.anatomy.upenn.edu 215-573-3211 |
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Multi-electrode recording in vitro and whole-cell recording + confocal microscopy. The VRC is providing the equipment for this module, with supplies to be covered by the individual investigator's grant.
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