A NEW ANNUAL ALCOHOL RESEARCH FORUM: GUZE SYMPOSIUM

描述（由申请人提供）：要求为Guze研讨会（GS）额外提供3年（从5年减少）的部分支持，该研讨会是在圣路易斯举行的一年一度的全天候酒精中毒研讨会，以纪念杰出的酒精研究人员和从业者Samuel B. Guze医学博士命名。在第一个资助期，一个不同的科学家小组参加了4次以高中饮酒为重点的研讨会；神经科学和遗传学；合并症;酗酒和烟草依赖；另一项研究将于2007年2月15日发布，研究整个生命周期的酒精使用情况。在续期申请中，牵头机构仍将是华盛顿大学的中西部酒精中毒研究中心（MARC）。研讨会将保留口头报告和海报会议的混合形式。邀请酒精和相关领域的杰出研究人员以及有前途的初级研究人员进行正式演讲。为会见获奖者、MARC和其他研究人员而举行的两次人员海报会议将促进研究人员、从业人员和社区参与者之间的科学对话。会议奖励给博士前和博士后研究员，（新的）正式奖励给来自社区的非研究人员，以支付出席费用。口头会议和海报会议的幻灯片以及（2007年新增的）演讲视频将（经许可）发布在MARC网站上。GS规划的新内容是在专题讨论会的主题提名中加入对听众和其他人的电子邮件调查，以提高GS对其目标选民的相关性，从而加强其外联。还有一个新的计划是增加会后评估，以确定需要改进的领域，并更好地跟踪GS的影响（包括对海报展示者和演讲者以及其他与会者的具体调查）。在本申请中，为2008-2010年期间举行的三次年度研讨会提出了主题和建议演讲者。总体目标是通过吸引广泛的听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领域的前沿跨学科主题；促进正在进行的酒精研究和转化研究，并鼓励其他人进行与酒精有关的研究；通过演讲和其他机会培养初级研究人员，并为博士前、博士后学员和非研究社区参与者提供会议奖励。综上所述，这些目标将使古泽研讨会继续作为酒精研究的首要会议，提供一个面向广大听众的论坛，介绍和辩论酒精研究和相关领域的最新问题，朝着缩小研究与实践之间的差距，促进对酒精研究成果的认识和对社区需求的适用性迈出了一步。

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.