Behavior, Biology, and Chemistry: Translational Research in Addiction

描述（由申请人提供）：此更新申请要求3年的支持，以继续举办自2009年以来每年在德克萨斯州圣安东尼奥举行的题为“行为，生物学和化学：成瘾转化研究”（BBC）的非常成功的国际科学会议。除了这笔拨款和先前的NIH拨款外，BBC会议还得到了圣安东尼奥德克萨斯大学健康科学中心和其他几所大学的大量财政和机构支持。这个为期两天的会议由广泛的成瘾研究人员参加，从高中生到本科生和研究生，从博士后研究员到资深科学家。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。由初级和高级研究人员以及在读研究生和研究生组成的混合体为年轻科学家提供了榜样，同时给他们提供了在会议上展示自己研究的机会，因为会议的展示门槛比大多数国际会议低。跨学科和转化主题促进了新的科学倡议，导致新的合作，并促进了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主题进行回顾和讨论。全体会议研讨会汇集了专家，提供最先进的概述（和出版的档案）在成瘾研究的一个特定领域。会议包括公开交流（2个环节专门供学员演讲），海报环节，学生竞赛，以及几位受邀演讲者，将成瘾研究中的化学，生物学和行为联系起来。全体会议的会议记录已经并将继续发表在同行评议的科学杂志上。本次会议的具体目的如下：1)为青年科学家提供一个向专家听众展示数据的低门槛机会；2)为学员，特别是女性和来自代表性不足人群的学员，提供与世界级成瘾研究人员互动的低成本和方便的机会；3)为不同群体的成瘾研究人员之间的互动提供一个刺激的场所；4)培养新的创新方法来开发治疗成瘾的药物。

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.