WCBR Conference Grant

WCBR 会议补助金

• 批准号: 9045099
• 负责人: Jacqueline F. McGinty
• 金额: $ 2.5万
• 依托单位: MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-12-01 至 2018-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9045099
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 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application is to request three years of funding for the annual Winter Conference on Brain Research (WCBR). The 2016 meeting will take place at Beaver Run Resort and Conference Center, Breckenridge, CO between Sunday January 24 to Thursday January 28. This conference is an ideal forum for exploring new developments in the field of substance use disorders (SUDs). WCBR has a unique format with 76 sessions (out of 93 submissions), including 73 2-hr panels, 6 1-hr mini-panels (3 sessions), and 2 short courses in 2015. There were 463 scientist attendees. There are daily poster sessions (Sun-Tue) including a special judged poster session that includes the top-ranking poster submissions predominantly presented by young investigators on Tue evening. New in 2015 was a Career Development Workshop for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty that was so well-attended that 2 sessions are being planned for 2016 (one including predocs and early postdocs; another for senior postdocs and Jr faculty). Extended periods of time are set aside for breakout groups, networking and scientific discussions. WCBR is an excellent opportunity for junior investigators and trainees to interact with established investigators in a relaxed atmosphere. The evaluations of recent conferences highlight the strong impact this meeting typically has on emerging as well as established scientists. As the travel funds allocated for emerging scientists have not kept pace with the rising costs of attending small, specialized meetings, we are requesting funding from other sources. We are hoping that the results of our requests enable us to support a keynote speaker as well as a large number of junior investigators to participate in the meeting. The conference includes one keynote speaker who also holds a Brain Talk Town Meeting that will be open to the entire Breckenridge community. For the 2016 WCBR meeting, Miguel Nicolelis, M.D., Ph.D. Center for Neuroengineering, Duke U will be the Keynote and Brain Talk Town Meeting speaker. There is an annual School Outreach Program organized in collaboration with local middle and high school teachers in which up to 10 WCBR scientists visit community schools. WCBR's program is developed annually based on abstract submissions in August each year. At WCBR 2015, approximately 1/3 (two panels in each session) were specifically on abused drugs and another 1/6 (one panel in each session) was on reward. Thus, at least half of the conference should be of direct relevance to NIDA (with the remaining panels making up 1/3 of the program primarily NIMH- and 1/6 NINDS- relevant). Thus, the sessions are highly relevant to understanding the neurobiological bases of drug addiction as well as neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders. WCBR always provides a unique opportunity to discuss recent advances in the understanding of the pathophysiology and treatment of those conditions. The fact that a large proportion of the participants are junior investigators and a significant number will be graduate students and postdocs ensure that this conference may have an impact on how future generations of neuroscientists view these issues.

 描述（由应用程序提供）：本申请是要求为年度冬季大脑研究会议（WCBR）提供三年资金。 2016年的会议将于1月24日星期日至1月28日（星期四）在Breckenridge的Beaver Run Resort和会议中心举行。该会议是探索物质使用障碍（SUDS）的新发展的理想论坛。 WCBR具有独特的格式，其中包括76次会议（在93个提交中），包括73个2小时面板，6个1小时的迷你板（3次课程）和2015年的2门短课程。有463名科学家参加者。每天都有海报会议（Sun-Tue），其中包括一个特别的评审海报会议，其中包括年轻调查员在周二的最高海报提交的帖子。 2015年的新事业是研究生，博士后研究员和初级教职员工的职业发展研讨会，该讲习班非常有吸引力，以至于计划在2016年举行2次课程（包括Predoc和早期的博士后；另一个针对高级博士后和JR教职员工）。延长的时间用于突破组，网络和科学讨论。 WCBR是初级调查人员和学员在轻松氛围中与已建立的研究人员互动的绝佳机会。对最近的会议的评估凸显了这次会议通常对新兴和既定科学家的强烈影响。由于为新兴科学家分配的旅行资金并没有跟上参加小型专业会议的成本上涨，因此我们要求其他来源的资金。我们希望我们的请求结果使我们能够支持主题演讲者以及大量的初级调查人员参加会议。会议包括一位主题演讲者，他还举行了一次脑谈式城镇会议，该会议将向整个Breckenridge社区开放。在2016年WCBR会议上，Miguel Nicolelis，医学博士，博士神经工程中心，U杜克大学将是主题演讲和脑谈式镇上会议演讲者。有一个年度学校外展计划与当地的中学和高中教师合作，其中最多10名WCBR科学家访问社区学校。 WCBR的计划每年根据每年八月的抽象提交每年制定。在WCBR 2015上，大约1/3（每个会议中的两个面板）专门用于滥用药物，另外1/6（每次会议中的一个面板）都在奖励。这是至少一半的会议与NIDA具有直接相关性（其余的面板构成了该计划的1/3，主要是NIMH-和1/6 Ninds-相关）。这是与理解药物成瘾以及神经系统和神经精神疾病的神经生物学基础高度相关的。 WCBR始终提供一个独特的机会来讨论了解这些疾病的病理生理学和治疗的最新进展。很大一部分参与者是初级调查人员，并且有很大一部分是研究生和博士后，确保本次会议可能会影响到子孙后代的神经科学家如何看待这些问题。