A NEW ANNUAL ALCOHOL RESEARCH FORUM: GUZE SYMPOSIUM

描述(由申请人提供)：古泽研讨会(GS)，一年一度的全天酒精中毒研讨会，在圣路易斯举行，以纪念著名的酒精研究和实践者塞缪尔·B·古泽医学博士命名，申请部分资助3年(从5年减少)。在第一个资助期，不同的科学家小组参加了4个研讨会，重点是高中饮酒；神经科学和遗传学；共病；以及酒精中毒和烟草依赖；另一个研讨会定于02/15/07年2月15日举行，主题是终身饮酒。在续签申请中，牵头机构将继续是华盛顿大学中西部酒精中毒研究中心(MARC)。研讨会将保留口头陈述和海报会议的混合形式。受邀的正式报告将由酒精及相关领域的杰出研究人员以及有前途的初级调查人员进行。两个有工作人员的海报会议，用于会见获奖者、MARC和其他研究人员，将促进研究人员、从业者和社区参与者之间的科学对话。为博士后和博士后研究员提供会议奖励，并为来自社区的非研究人员提供(新的)正式奖励，以支付出席费用。口头和海报会议的幻灯片，以及讲座的视频(2007年新增)将(经允许)发布在MARC网站上。一般事务人员规划的新内容是包括对听众和其他人进行电子邮件调查，以提名专题讨论会的主题，以提高一般事务人员与其目标受众的相关性，从而加强其外联工作。增加会后评价的计划也是新的，这既是为了查明需要改进的领域，也是为了更好地跟踪一般事务的影响(包括对海报主持人和发言者以及其他与会者的具体调查)。在本申请中，为2008-2010年举行的3个年度专题讨论会提出了主题和建议的发言者。总的目标是通过吸引广大受众参加一个论坛来提高酒精研究的知名度，在这个论坛上将介绍酒精研究的前沿跨学科主题；促进正在进行的酒精研究和翻译研究，并鼓励其他人进行与酒精相关的研究；通过演讲和其他机会培养初级调查人员，并为博士前和博士后实习生和非研究界参与者提供会议奖项。综上所述，这些目标将使古泽研讨会继续成为酒精研究的首要会议，为广大受众提供一个论坛，在其中展示和辩论酒精研究和相关领域的最新问题，朝着弥合研究与实践之间的差距，促进酒精研究成果对社区需求的认识和应用迈出了一步。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Partial support is requested for an additional 3 years (reduced from 5 years) for the Guze Symposium (GS), an annual all-day alcoholism symposium held in St. Louis and named in memory of the eminent alcohol researcher and practitioner Samuel B. Guze, M.D. In the first funding period, a diverse panel of scientists have participated in 4 Symposia focused on high school drinking; neuroscience and genetics; comorbidity; and alcoholism and tobacco dependence; with another slated for 02/15/07 on alcohol use across the lifespan. In the renewal application, the lead organization will continue to be the Midwest Alcoholism Research Center (MARC) at Washington University. The Symposium will retain its mix of oral presentations and poster session. Invited formal presentations will be given by distinguished researchers in alcohol and related fields, as well as promising junior investigators. Two staffed poster sessions, for meeting awardees, MARC and other investigators, will promote scientific dialog between researchers, practitioners, and community attendees. Meeting awards for pre and post doctoral fellows, and (new) formal awards for non-researchers from the community, are available to defray costs of attendance. Slides from oral and poster sessions, and (new for 2007) videos of the talks, will be posted (with permission) on the MARC website. New to GS planning is inclusion of email surveys of audience and others for nominations of topics for Symposia, in order to improve the relevance of the GS for its targeted constituencies, thereby enhancing its outreach. Also new is the plan for increased post-meeting evaluation both to identify areas for improvement, and to better track the impact of the GS (including specific surveys of poster presenters and speakers as well as other attendees.) In the present application, topics and suggested speakers are proposed for 3 annual symposia to be held from 2008-2010. The overall goals are to increase the visibility of alcohol research by attracting a broad audience to a forum where cutting edge interdisciplinary topics in alcohol research will be presented; to promote ongoing alcohol research and translational research, and to stimulate others to purse alcohol-related research; to develop junior investigators through speaking and other opportunities, and to provide meeting awards for pre and post doctoral trainees and non-research community participants. Taken together, these aims will maintain the Guze Symposium as a premier conference on alcohol research, providing a forum aimed at a broad audience in which latest issues in alcohol research and related fields will be presented and debated, a step toward bridging the gap between research and practice and promoting awareness of and applicability of alcohol research findings to community needs.