Behavior, Biology, and Chemistry: Translational Research in Addiction

描述(由申请者提供)：本次续签申请要求3年的支持，以继续举办自2009年以来每年在德克萨斯州圣安东尼奥举行的名为行为、生物和化学：成瘾转化研究(BBC)的非常成功的国际科学会议。除了这笔赠款以及之前NIH的一笔赠款外，BBC会议还得到了德克萨斯大学圣安东尼奥健康科学中心和其他几所大学的大量资金和机构支持。从高中到本科生和研究生，从博士后到高级科学家，广泛的成瘾研究人员参加了为期两天的会议。BBC会议的与会者代表了从分子和细胞生物学到化学和精神病学的一系列学科。初级和高级研究人员以及预科和研究生混合在一起，为年轻科学家提供了榜样，同时让他们有机会在发言门槛低于大多数国际会议的会议上介绍自己的研究成果。跨学科和翻译主题促进了新的科学倡议，导致了新的合作，并促进了不受传统学科限制的思维。BBC会议为下一代成瘾研究人员提供科学和职业发展培训，并在此过程中回顾和讨论成瘾研究中新的和令人兴奋的主题。一次全体研讨会汇集了专家，他们提供了成瘾研究特定领域的最先进的概述(和出版的档案)。会议包括公开交流(两个会议专门针对受训人员的陈述)，海报会议，学生比赛，以及几个将化学、生物和成瘾研究的行为联系起来的特邀演讲者。全体专题讨论会的会议记录已经并将继续在同行评议的科学期刊上发表。这次会议的具体目的如下：i)为年轻科学家提供一个向专家受众介绍数据的低门槛机会；2)为受训者，特别是妇女和来自代表性不足人群的受训者，提供与世界级成瘾研究人员互动的低成本和便利的机会；3)为不同的成瘾研究人员群体之间的互动提供一个刺激的场所；以及4)促进开发成瘾药物的新的和创新的方法。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This renewal application requests 3 years of support to continue a highly successful international scientific meeting entitled Behavior, Biology and Chemistry: Translational Research in Addiction (BBC) that has been held annually in San Antonio Texas since 2009. In addition to this grant as well as a previous NIH grant, BBC meetings have received significant financial and institutional support from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and several other universities. The 2-day meeting is attended by a broad range of addiction researchers, from high school to undergraduate and graduate students, from postdoctoral fellows to senior scientists. BBC meeting attendees represent a range of disciplines from molecular and cellular biology to chemistry and psychiatry. A mixture of junior and senior investigators as well as pre- and post- graduate students provides role models for young scientists while giving them an opportunity to present their own research in a meeting where the threshold for presentation is lower than most international meetings. The transdisciplinary and translational theme fosters new scientific initiatives leading to new collaborations and promotes thinking unconstrained by traditional disciplines. The BBC meeting provides scientific and career development training for the next generation of addiction researchers and, in the process, provides a review and discussion of new and exciting topics in addiction research. A plenary symposium brings together experts that provide a state-of-the-art overview (and published archive) in a specific area of addiction research. The meeting includes open communications (2 sessions are exclusively for presentations by trainees), a poster session, student competitions, as well as several invited speakers bridging chemistry, biology and behavior in addiction research. Proceedings from plenary symposia have been and will continue to be published in a peer- reviewed scientific journal. The specific aims of this meeting are the following: I) provide young scientists a low threshold opportunity to present data to an expert audience; 2) give trainees, especially women and those from underrepresented populations, a low cost and convenient opportunity to interact with world class addiction researchers; 3) provide a stimulating venue for interactions among a diverse group of addiction researchers; and 4) foster new and innovative approaches to the development of medications for addiction.