9th Conference: Drug Abuse, Immunomodulation & AIDS

描述（由申请人提供）：这是一份资助将于2002年10月2-6日在佛罗里达州Clearwater举行的第9届神经免疫药理学学会（SNIP）会议的提案。会议的目的是探讨药物滥用作为神经免疫轴调节剂的作用。专题讨论会将从药物引起的免疫变化的基本病因到神经变性和神经艾滋病的临床研究，再到街头成瘾者艾滋病进展的流行病学研究。由Adventis主办的关于神经退行性变机制的专题讨论会和由心理神经免疫学研究学会（PNIRS）主办的关于行为和应激在调节神经免疫轴中的作用的专题讨论会。由于培训年轻科学家是会议的一个主要目标，青年研究者旅行奖将颁发给大约12名研究生和研究员，他们将在会议上展示自己的研究成果。为了公布会议的结果，每个专题讨论会的主席将写一篇关于他们会议所涉及的主题的综述，然后将与会议上每个演讲者的简短论文结合起来。然后，这六章将经过同行评审，一旦被接受，将作为《神经免疫学杂志》的一卷出版。随着非营利组织的成立，会议委员会的结构得到了扩大，以便最大限度地让所服务的科学界参与进来。该协会的章程要求定期更换委员会的组成，这将有更大的机会在组织会议时执行性别和种族多样化的原则。该协会建立了一个网站www.s-nip.org，用于宣传这次会议，并报道会议上提出的重要成果。网站和从以前的会议中积累的邮件列表相结合，应保证广泛传播清水会议的公告，并为已发表的结果提供充分的宣传。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a proposal to fund the 9th Conference of the Society on NeuroImmune Pharmacology (SNIP) to be held in Clearwater, Florida from October 2-6, 2002. The purpose of the meeting is to explore the role of drug abuse as a modulator of the neuroimmune axis. Symposia will flow from sessions on the basic etiology of drug-induced immune changes to clinical studies on neurodegeneration and neuroAIDS to epidemiological studies on AIDS progression in street addicts. Special symposia will be hosted by Adventis on mechanisms of neurodegeneration and by the PsychoNeuroImmunology Research Society (PNIRS) on the role of behavior and stress in modulating the neuroimmune axis. Since training of young scientists is a major goal of the conference, young investigator travel awards will be given to approximately a dozen graduate students and fellows who will be expected to present their own research at the meeting. To publicize the results of the conference, the chairs of each symposia will write a review of the topics covered in their session, which will then be combined with short papers from each presenter in the session. The six chapters will then be peer-reviewed and, upon acceptance, published as a volume of the Journal of Neuroimmunology. With the establishment of a nonprofit society to run the meeting, the conference committee structure has been expanded to allow for the greatest possibility of participation from the scientific community served. The bylaws of the society require regular turnover in the composition of the committees, which will allow greater opportunity to enforce the principles of gender and ethnic diversity in organizing the meeting. The society has established a web site, www.s-nip.org, which will be used to advertise the conference and to report on significant results presented at the meeting. The combination of the web site and the mailing lists accumulated from previous conferences should guarantee wide dissemination of the announcement of the Clearwater meeting and provide adequate publicity for the published results.