>From:  IN%"[log in to unmask]"  "Confocal Microscopy List"
>Subj:  Fee for service facilities, request for info on administration
 
 
>Apologies to anybody who received this twice due to cross posting.
>
>Every once in a while somebody asks for a survey of user fees for
>multi-user facilities involving LM or EM.
>
>The discussion of fees has been very informative.
>
>We were wondering, in addition to fees, how these facilities are
>administrated.
>
>For instance:
>o  What is the administrative hierarchy?
>o  What is the salary and rank of the director of day-to-day operations?
>o  What are the responsibilities of this person or people?
>o  Who contributes the equipment to the facility and how are these
>resources allocated to users?
>
>Any comments would be appreciated.
>
>Thank you.
>
>Michael Cammer
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        Here at the University of Florida, the electron micrscopy lab (which
currently includes confocal as well) is one of nine Core laboratories of The
Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research (ICBR) which serves the
 entire
state university system but is located in Gainesville.  We can also take
outside contracts as well.  Each Core Lab. has either a technical director plus
a scientific advisor (faculty member) or a Scientific Director , who is a
faculty level scientist with a 100% research appointment.  The head of each
Core lab is responsible to the  ICBR Director whois is responsible to the
Vice President for Research.
        Each Core lab will then have a number of support personnel.
The EM Core lab director earns $43,000.
 
The Core laboratory director is responsible for everything that he can't get
his assistants to do.  Consultation with users, designing, directing and
possibly executing the project. Oversee billing and purchasing and pushing
an incredible amount of paper around.
 
Lab equipment was either inherited from previous labs or purchased from The
ICBR budget  or from grants and local matching.
 
        The EM Core is now also associated with the Center for Structural
Biology
in the college of medicine.  They are developing an NMR imaging and
macromolecular structure program, otpical microscopy core, and X-ray
crytallography core.
        They will expand EM capabilities using the current Core Lab as a
nucleus.
 
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