Behavior, Biology, and Chemistry: Translational Research in Addiction

描述（由申请人提供）：此修订后的R13申请要求支持一次会议，题为行为，生物学和化学：成瘾转化研究（BBC），将于2011-2013年每年在圣安东尼奥举行。为期两天的会议延续了2009年和2010年非常成功的BBC会议，参加会议的有来自不同群体的成瘾研究人员，从本科生到高级科学家，涵盖了从分子生物学到精神病学的广泛学科。英国广播公司的会议得到主办大学（得克萨斯大学健康科学中心）以及其他大学的高水平的财政和机构支持。这种初级和高级研究人员、研究生和研究生的跨学科混合为青年科学家提供了榜样，同时也使他们有机会在与大多数国家会议相比介绍门槛较低的情况下介绍自己的研究成果。英国广播公司会议的跨学科和翻译主题将促进新的科学举措，并促进传统学科约束之外的思维。会议的形式有助于培养新一代的生物医学研究人员，并在此过程中，提供了一个密集接触成瘾研究中新的和令人兴奋的主题。每次会议的一个专题讨论会将汇集特定领域的专家，为成瘾研究中的一个重要问题提供最先进的概述;会议的其余部分对成瘾生物学中的任何主题都是开放的。会议包括公开交流（两次学生演讲）和一次海报会议。受邀演讲者将在成瘾研究中的化学，生物学和行为方面进行演讲。本次会议的具体目标如下：一）促进化学家，生物学家和行为科学家之间的互动，从而促进学科之间的思想和概念化的交叉施肥;为青年科学家，特别是代表性不足的少数民族和妇女，提供一个有吸引力和负担得起的场所，在成瘾领域介绍他们的研究，并了解成瘾行为生物学的最新研究;和III）提供一个免费提供的全体研讨会和其他主题演讲的电子档案。 公共卫生相关性：该应用程序要求支持继续一个非常成功的科学会议，汇集了来自不同学科（分子生物学到精神病学）的学生，初级和高级科学家，以促进新的合作和创造性的跨学科和翻译思维，为开发药物成瘾的新目标。这次会议将促进新的科学举措，并向年轻科学家，特别是代表性不足的少数民族和妇女，介绍成瘾生物学的前沿研究。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This revised R13 application requests support for a meeting, entitled Behavior, Biology and Chemistry: Translational Research in Addiction (BBC), to be held annually in San Antonio in 2011-2013. The 2-day meeting continues highly successful BBC meetings in 2009 and 2010 that were attended by a diverse group of addiction researchers, from undergraduate students to senior scientists and encompassing a wide range of disciplines, from molecular biology to psychiatry. BBC meetings receive a high level of financial and institutional support from the hosting university (University of Texas Health Science Center) as well as other universities. This transdisciplinary mixture of junior and senior investigators, pre- and post-graduate students provides role models for young scientists while at the same time gives them an opportunity to present results from their own research in a context where there is a lower threshold for presentation, compared with most national meetings. The transdisciplinary and translational theme of the BBC meeting will foster new scientific initiatives and promote thinking that is outside the constraints of traditional disciplines. The format of the meeting contributes to training a new generation of biomedical researchers and, in the process, provides an intensive exposure to new and exciting topics in addiction research. A single symposium at each meeting will bring together experts in a specific area to provide a state-of-the-art overview of an important issue in addiction research; the remainder of the meeting is open to any topic in addiction biology. The meeting includes open communications (two sessions for student presentations) and a poster session. Invited speakers will make presentations that bridge chemistry, biology and behavior in addiction research. The specific aims of this meeting are as follows: I) facilitate interactions among chemists, biologists and behavioral scientists, thereby stimulating cross-fertilization of ideas and conceptualizations among disciplines; II) provide an attractive and affordable venue for young scientists, especially underrepresented minorities and women, in the addiction field to present their research and to learn about state-of-the-art research on the behavioral biology of addiction; and III) provide a freely available electronic archive of the plenary symposium and other keynote lectures. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This application requests support to continue a highly successful scientific meeting that brings together students, junior and senior scientists from different disciplines (molecular biology to psychiatry) in order to promote new collaborations and creative transdisciplinary and translational thinking about novel targets for developing medications for addiction. This meeting will promote new scientific initiatives and introduce young scientists, especially underrepresented minorities and women, to cutting-edge research in addiction biology.