Alcohol & Immunology Research Interest Group (AIRIG) Meeting

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• 批准号: 8205543
• 负责人: ELIZABETH J. KOVACS
• 金额: $ 1.8万
• 依托单位: LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-08-05 至 2014-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8205543
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This R13 meetings grant application seeks partial support for three upcoming annual Alcohol and Immunology Research Interest Group (AIRIG) meetings in conjunction with either the Midwest Autumn Immunology Conference (AIC) in Chicago, IL or the Society for Leukocyte Biology (SLB). Funding is requested to cover travel costs and housing for students, postdoctoral fellows, junior faculty and minority scientists, as well as some of the cost of invited speakers, for a one day meeting which will cover broad aspects of alcohol and immunology with a sub-theme. The sub-theme for 2011 meeting will be "Alcohol and Epigenetic Changes." The 2011 meeting will be held on the Friday November 18th in the Department of Surgery at Loyola University in Maywood IL, the day before the start of the three-day Chicago-based Midwest AIC. We anticipate having two subsequent AIRIG meetings as one day satellite meetings at the Annual Meeting of the SLB which will be in the fall of 2012 in Hawaii and in the fall of 2013 on the East Coast of the United States. Themes of the latter two meeting will be "Alcohol, Receptors and Signal Transduction" and "Alcohol and Inflammatory Responses," respectively. AIC is a regional meeting with over 450 registrants and an impressive list of invited plenary speakers from around the United States. SLB meetings have between 300 - 500 registrants depending on the venue and if the meeting is solo or joint with other small scientific societies. Holding the AIRIG meeting with AIC or SLB will allow greater visibility of alcohol and immunology research than would be possible at larger meetings like the American Association of Immunologists or Experimental Biology. Additionally, both have multiple opportunities for young developing scientist (student and postdoctoral fellows) to participate on many levels. At AIC and SLB meetings, large number of oral presentations are selected from submitted abstracts. In addition, both meetings have Career Development Programs, including sessions and workshops entitled Careers in Immunology, Meet the Program Officer, Women and Diversity, and Grant Writing, indicating commitment to trainees at all levels. These sessions allow time for career building and collaborative opportunities, which may not be feasible or readily available at larger meetings. Thus, in addition to providing a forum for the discussion of current research in the field, overall goals of the co-organizers are to expand the participation of students, postdoctoral trainees and minority scientists and increase the critical mass of scientists working on alcohol and immunology issues. We believe that these goals will be best achieved by scheduling upcoming AIRIG meetings in conjunction with the AIC and SLB Annual Meetings. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: There are a limited number of laboratories working in the field of alcohol and immunology all of which benefit from the AIRIG meetings, as the meetings provide a forum for maintaining an open dialog between these research groups. The meetings are intended to be inclusive: 1) bringing research groups together to foster communication and collaboration, 2) allowing junior scientists and those who are new to the field to present their work orally, and 3) introducing alcohol trainees to senior alcohol research faculty who may be able to serve as future mentors to the trainees. The organizers feel that meeting in a friendly non-competitive setting, increases the potential for rapid scientific advancement and may help to keep alcohol and immunology trainees in the field by availing them of the opportunity to meet funded senior faculty and their trainees.

说明（由申请人提供）：此 R13 会议拨款申请为即将举行的三场年度酒精和免疫学研究兴趣小组 (AIRIG) 会议寻求部分支持，该会议与伊利诺伊州芝加哥中西部秋季免疫学会议 (AIC) 或白细胞生物学学会 (SLB) 联合举办。请求资金用于支付学生、博士后研究员、初级教师和少数族裔科学家的旅费和住宿费，以及受邀演讲者的部分费用，以参加为期一天的会议，该会议将涵盖酒精和免疫学的广泛方面，并有一个副主题。 2011 年会议的副主题是“酒精和表观遗传变化”。 2011 年会议将于 11 月 18 日星期五在伊利诺伊州梅伍德市洛约拉大学外科系举行，即为期三天的芝加哥中西部 AIC 开始前一天。我们预计随后将举行两次 AIRIG 会议，作为 SLB 年会的一日卫星会议，这两次会议将于 2012 年秋季在夏威夷举行，并于 2013 年秋季在美国东海岸举行。后两次会议的主题将分别是“酒精、受体和信号转导”和“酒精和炎症反应”。 AIC 是一个区域性会议，有超过 450 名注册者以及来自美国各地的大量受邀全体演讲嘉宾。 SLB 会议有 300 - 500 名注册者，具体取决于地点以及会议是单独举行还是与其他小型科学协会联合举行。与美国免疫学家协会或实验生物学协会等大型会议相比，与 AIC 或 SLB 一起举行 AIRIG 会议将提高酒精和免疫学研究的知名度。此外，两者都为年轻的发展科学家（学生和博士后研究员）提供多种参与多个层面的机会。在AIC和SLB会议上，大量口头报告是从提交的摘要中挑选出来的。此外，这两次会议都有职业发展计划，包括题为“免疫学职业”、“与计划官员会面”、“妇女与多样性”和“拨款写作”的会议和研讨会，表明了对各级学员的承诺。这些会议为职业建设和合作机会提供了时间，而这在大型会议上可能不可行或容易获得。因此，除了提供一个讨论该领域当前研究的论坛外，协办者的总体目标是扩大学生、博士后实习生和少数族裔科学家的参与，并增加从事酒精和免疫学问题的科学家的数量。我们相信，通过安排即将召开的 AIRIG 会议以及 AIC 和 SLB 年会，可以最好地实现这些目标。 公共卫生相关性：从事酒精和免疫学领域工作的实验室数量有限，所有这些实验室都受益于 AIRIG 会议，因为这些会议为维持这些研究小组之间的公开对话提供了一个论坛。这些会议旨在具有包容性：1）将研究小组聚集在一起，促进沟通和合作，2）允许初级科学家和新进入该领域的人员口头介绍他们的工作，3）向酒精类学员介绍高级酒精类研究人员，他们可能会成为学员未来的导师。组织者认为，在友好的非竞争性环境中举行会议，增加了科学快速进步的潜力，并可能有助于酒精和免疫学学员有机会与受资助的高级教师及其学员见面，从而将他们留在该领域。