Behavior, Biology, and Chemistry: Translational Research in Addiction

描述（由申请人提供）：本续期申请要求3年的支持，以继续一个非常成功的国际科学会议，题为行为，生物学和化学：成瘾转化研究（BBC），自2009年以来每年在德克萨斯州圣安东尼奥举行。除了这笔赠款以及以前的国家卫生研究院赠款，英国广播公司的会议已收到显着的财政和机构的支持，从得克萨斯大学健康科学中心在圣安东尼奥和其他几所大学。为期两天的会议由广泛的成瘾研究人员参加，从高中到本科生和研究生，从博士后研究员到高级科学家。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研究生和研究生的混合为年轻科学家提供了榜样，同时让他们有机会在一个演讲门槛低于大多数国际会议的会议上展示自己的研究。跨学科和翻译主题促进新的科学举措，导致新的合作，并促进不受传统学科约束的思维。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，对成瘾研究中令人兴奋的新课题进行了回顾和讨论。全体研讨会汇集了在成瘾研究的特定领域提供最先进的概述（和出版的档案）的专家。会议包括公开交流（2个会议专门用于学员的演讲），海报会议，学生比赛，以及几位受邀演讲者在成瘾研究中桥接化学，生物学和行为。全体会议专题讨论会的会议记录已经并将继续发表在同行评审的科学杂志上。这次会议的具体目标如下：一）为青年科学家提供一个向专家听众介绍数据的低门槛机会;二）为受训人员，特别是妇女和来自代表性不足人口的受训人员提供一个与世界一流的成瘾问题研究人员互动的低成本和方便的机会;三）为各种成瘾问题研究人员之间的互动提供一个令人兴奋的场所;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.