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Core Leader
Dr. James P. Shaffery is Core Leader of the Center for Psychiatric
Neuroscience Website Core. Dr. Shaffery completed his graduate
studies with the Animal Behavior Research Group, in the Zoology
Department at Oxford, England (1984). Part of his early graduate
research on the biological function of sleep involved studies of
sleep electrophysiology in free ranging birds. A post-doctoral
NRSA award under Dr. Howard P. Roffwarg on the function of sleep in brain
maturation in young kittens led to an NIH/NINDS-funded project to
determine the neural mechanisms that allow the rapid eye movement
(REM) phase of sleep to contribute to brain development and
maturation. In addition to his responsibilities as Website Core
Leader, Dr. Shaffery has served as Chairperson of the Psychiatry
Computer Committee. He has served on this committee since 1999,
having been appointed during the University-wide effort to ensure
Y2K compliance. He has also served on several ad hoc computer
committees, including the UMC Information Systems Strategic
Planning Committee. Dr. Shaffery has extensive experience with
computer programming languages and has been involved with systems
administration on mainframes as well as personal computers and
workstations.
Core Goals
The CPN is comprised of several laboratories,
not all of which are located in close proximity to each other. In
addition to maintaining the visibility of the CPN in the research
community, the Website Core Facility provides a powerful database
resource for CPN investigators and for collaborating laboratories
outside of the center.
CPN investigators regularly collaborate with other psychiatric
neuroscientists within the state of Mississippi, across the
country, and around the world. The Website Core Facility provides
not only a means for this diverse group of scientists to
communicate effectively and exchange information, it also
facilitates secure data storage and exchange, electronic
conferencing, interactive document markup capabilities, as well as
providing protected access to a number of continuously updated
databases. The Website Core Facility accomplishes this by
maintaining a secure, website-based, large-capacity data storage
server with simple user interfaces for deposit and retrieval of
information.
Core Equipment
The Website Core Facility provides these facilities and
capabilities on its own Dell PowerEdge 2650 rack-optimized server
that boasts a dual 1.8GHz CPU, 70GB of Raid-Five level data
storage, 1 GB of RAM memory and is supported on an (UPS)
Uninterruptible Power System. The PowerEdge 2650 is a capable dual
Intel processor server, allowing for future upgrades of its
load-handling abilities. As the CPN and its list of collaborators
grows, so can the PowerEdge 2650 server. The PowerEdge 2650 is
maintained in a server farm at the University of Mississippi
Medical Center administered by Donny Broome and the UMC
Department of Information Systems.
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