Alcohol & Immunology Research Interest Group (AIRIG) Meeting

描述(由申请人提供)：此R13会议资助申请寻求部分支持即将到来的三个年度酒精和免疫学研究兴趣小组(AIRIG)会议，以及在伊利诺伊州芝加哥举行的中西部秋季免疫会议(AIC)或白细胞生物学学会(SLB)。申请资金用于支付学生、博士后研究员、初级教员和少数族裔科学家的旅费和住宿费，以及受邀演讲者的一些费用，参加为期一天的会议，讨论酒精和免疫学的广泛方面，并设一个分主题。2011年会议的副主题将是“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的洛约拉大学外科举行，也就是为期三天的芝加哥中西部AIC会议开始的前一天。我们预计将于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AIRIG会议，作为为期一天的卫星会议。后两次会议的主题分别是“酒精、受体和信号转导”和“酒精和炎症反应”。AIC是一个地区性会议，有超过450名注册者和来自美国各地的令人印象深刻的全体受邀演讲者名单。SLB会议有300-500名注册人员，这取决于会议的地点以及会议是单独举行还是与其他小型科学学会联合举行。与美国免疫学家协会或实验生物学等大型会议相比，与AIC或SLB举行AIRIG会议将使酒精和免疫学研究获得更大的可见度。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)提供了在多个层面上参与的多重机会。在AIC和SLB会议上，从提交的摘要中挑选了大量的口头陈述。此外，这两个会议都有职业发展计划，包括题为免疫学职业、会见项目官员、妇女和多样性以及赠款撰写的会议和研讨会，表明对各级受训人员的承诺。这些会议为职业发展和协作机会留出了时间，这在较大的会议上可能是不可行的或不容易获得的。因此，除了为讨论该领域当前的研究提供一个论坛外，联合组织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临界人数。我们认为，通过将即将举行的AIRIG会议与AIC和SLB年会安排在一起，将最好地实现这些目标。 公共卫生相关性：在酒精和免疫学领域开展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)允许初级科学家和该领域的新手口头介绍他们的工作；3)将酒精学员介绍给高级酒精研究人员，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，增加了快速发展科学的可能性，并可能通过利用酒精和免疫学实习生与受资助的高级教员及其实习生见面的机会，帮助他们留在该领域。

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.