NIAAA Center Directors Meeting

描述（由申请人提供）：本次会议的目的是召开下一次NIAAA中心主任会议将在耶鲁大学举行。本次会议的目的是让中心主任和NIAAA审查中心的运作，物流和概述未来的计划的关键方面。为此，会议将举行为期半天的系列商务会议，以促进NIAAA与中心主任和受邀指定人员之间的互动。除了会议的逻辑方面，董事会议的目的是促进以酒精研究领域的关键问题和最新发展为中心的科学交流和互动。过去，主任会议提供了一个具有广泛吸引力的共同主题，以促进跨国家中心的多学科研究的介绍。会议的拟议主题将围绕脆弱性的结构。具体来说，重点将放在以下综合性主题有关的脆弱性跨层次的调查：1）脆弱性由于改变的学习机制; 2）压力和认知控制的作用在脆弱性; 3）脆弱性改变由于改变酒精反应模式; 4）社会和社区脆弱性因素，预防和治疗;我们相信，拟议的计划将提供一个丰富的平台，讨论和交流，以推进有关这种疾病及其潜在的神经生物学的知识的目的。会议通常将与NIAAA董事会议的先前迭代并行。观众预计将包括约100名来自NIAAA中心的研究人员，受邀的指定人员以及当地的耶鲁大学研究人员。建议会议日期为2013年4月29日至30日。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of this conference is to convene the next NIAAA Center Directors meeting to be held at Yale University. This conference is designed to allow Center Directors and NIAAA to review critical aspects of Center operation, logistics and outline plans for the future. To this end, the conference will feature a half-day series of busines meetings to facilitate interaction between the NIAAA and the Center Directors and invited designees. In addition to the logisitical aspect of the conference, the purpose of the Directors Meeting is to facilitate scientific exchange and interaction centered on key problems and state-of-the-art developments in the field of alcohol research. In the past, the Directors Meeting conferences provided a common theme with broad appeal to facilitate presentation of multi-disciplinary research across national Centers. The proposed theme for the conference will center around the construct of vulnerability. Specifically, the focus will be placed on the followig integrative topics related to vulnerability across levels of inquiry: 1) Vulnerability due to Alterations in Learning Mechanisms; 2) Role of Stress and Cognitive Control in Vulnerability; 3) Vulnerability Alterations due to Altered Alcohol Response Patterns; 4) Social and Community Vulnerability Factors, Prevention and Treatment; We are confident the proposed program will provide a fertile platform for discussions and exchange with the aim of advancing knowledge about this disorder and its underlying neurobiology. The progam will generally parallel prior iterations of the NIAAA Directors Meeting. The audience is expected to include ~100 researchers from NIAAA Centers, invited designees as well as local Yale researchers. The proposed meeting dates are April 29-30th, 2013.