# Administrative Core

> **NIH NIH P50** · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · 2021 · $253,361

## Abstract

Abstract
This Conte Center represents a collaboration of five senior scientists and several accomplished junior
scientists, with expertise spanning domains of neural systems studies in humans, cellular and neuron
ensemble studies in nonhuman primates and computational modeling, addressing brain operations at each
level. We focus on a critical issue of broad scientific and translational importance – the brain's rhythmic
dynamics and their mechanistic roles as instruments that the brain uses to optimize its goal-directed sampling
of information, or “Active Sensing.” We are all leaders in our fields, as shown by our records of publications,
grants and conceptual/technical innovation. We each bring with us networks of trainees and colleagues who
share our dedication to find a break-through in our mechanistic understanding of brain dynamics, as well as a
clear recognition that this is by necessity a multidisciplinary enterprise, ideally suited to, and in fact requiring, a
support mechanism like the Conte Center. Core A has several necessary supervisory and administrative
functions, including serving as the communication backbone of the Center, and maintaining the highest
standards of ethical and financial accountability across the Center. This core will also be responsible for
supporting evaluative and constructive activities including the annual External Scientific Advisory
Committee meeting, the semiannual Internal Scientific and Educational Advisory Committee meetings, and the
semi-monthly Steering Committee meetings. This Core will support educational outreach activities including:
1) the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE), 2) the diversity and Under-Represented Minority
Fellowship program, 3) the Women-in-Science Symposia, 4) the Center's Seminar Series at Columbia, 5) a
weekly Web Journal Club, and 6) the Center's participation in a science journal for teenagers initiated by 2 of
our Project Leaders – Frontiers for Young Minds. (http://kids.frontiersin.org/). Core A will support team-
building, scientific exchange and programmatic refinement of the Center during the Annual Center
Retreat, and several levels of technical support to Projects and Cores, as well as a Center Website and other
forms of Public Outreach. In this revised application, we are significantly expanding the Center's emphasis on
electrical stimulation and pharmacological manipulations that provide more direct access to underlying
“causal” mechanisms, and Core A support is critical to that venture. Beyond all of this this our overarching
goal is to provide the greatest possible support for synergy across projects in the Center and for the Center's
intellectual agility so that it can exploit new discoveries, and adapt to problems and challenges that emerge
during its funding cycle. We will pursue this goal on multiple levels. The timeline of Core A activities relative to
the Center as a whole is given in “Overall” Fig 17.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10175033
- **Project number:** 5P50MH109429-05
- **Recipient organization:** COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
- **Principal Investigator:** CHARLES E SCHROEDER
- **Activity code:** P50 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $253,361
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2017-04-15 → 2023-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10175033

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10175033, Administrative Core (5P50MH109429-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-27 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10175033. Licensed CC0.

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