Alcohol & Immunology Research Interest Group (AIRIG) Meeting

描述（由申请人提供）：此R13会议补助金申请寻求部分支持三个即将举行的年度酒精和免疫学研究兴趣小组（AIRIG）会议，无论是中西部秋季免疫学会议（AIC）在芝加哥，IL或白细胞生物学学会（SLB）。要求提供资金，以支付学生、博士后研究员、初级教员和少数民族科学家的旅费和住房费，以及应邀发言者参加为期一天的会议的部分费用，会议将涵盖酒精和免疫学的广泛方面，并有一个分主题。2011年会议的次主题将是“酒精和表观遗传变化”。“2011年的会议将于11月18日星期五在位于伊利诺伊州梅伍德的洛约拉大学外科系举行，这是为期三天的芝加哥中西部AIC开始的前一天。我们预计将在2012年秋季在夏威夷和2013年秋季在美国东海岸举行的SLB年会上举行两次为期一天的AIRIG会议。后两个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是一个区域会议，有450多名注册者和来自美国各地的邀请全体发言人。SLB会议有300 - 500名注册者，具体取决于会议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AIC或SLB举行AIRIG会议将使酒精和免疫学研究的可见度比在美国免疫学家协会或实验生物学等大型会议上更高。此外，这两个项目都为年轻的发展中科学家（学生和博士后研究员）提供了多层次参与的机会。在AIC和SLB会议上，大量的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的会议和研讨会，会见计划官员，妇女和多样性，以及赠款写作，表明对各级学员的承诺。这些会议为职业建设和合作机会提供了时间，这在大型会议上可能不可行或不容易获得。因此，除了为讨论该领域目前的研究提供一个论坛外，共同组织者的总体目标是扩大学生、博士后受训人员和少数民族科学家的参与，增加从事酒精和免疫学问题研究的科学家的临界数量。我们相信，通过安排即将举行的AIRIG会议与AIC和SLB年会一起，这些目标将得到最好的实现。

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.