RSAโs mission is to provide a forum for communication & career development to alcohol researchers, to attract & support next generation alcohol researchers.
Dr. Nadia Chaudhri, an inspirational, bright light passed away yesterday from ovarian cancer. As an advocate for young researchers from diverse backgrounds and an RSA member, she chose RSA to manage the Nadia Chaudhri Rising Scholar Awards. Her story:
Congratulations to the 2020 Gordis Award winners:
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Clinical Postdoc: Ashely Watts
Bio Postdoc: Laura Giacometti
Clinical Student: Sarah Hagerty
Bio Student: Maria Luisa Torruella-Suarez
It was a very competitive field, great presentations by all of the finalists!
2021 GRADUATE STUDENT SMALL GRANTS PROGRAM request for LOIs coming Oct. 1. The 1-year $5K awards support supplies, salary and/or participation in short courses. Five grants will be awarded, with at least 1 supporting a diversity applicant.
Dear Nadia, your support of young scholars from diverse backgrounds is admirable. RSA will honor your legacy with the same respect, care and grace that you have shown for others. Sincerely, Debby Sharp, RSA
The Research Society on Alcoholism annual meeting has been crucial for my scientific & personal growth. It is at this meeting that I found my confidence & came to embrace my identifies as a Pakistani, female neuroscientist.
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The RSA & ISBRA leadership have been closely tracking the impact of COVID-19 on the world. As the safety of our research community is our utmost concern, it has become apparent that cancelling the RSA/ISBRA-2020 conference is our only option.
For details:
Congratulations! 2020 Gordis Research Recognition Award Student Finalist: KURT FRASER, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore: ENCODING AND ENHANCEMENT OF THE MOTIVATION TO CONSUME ALCOHOL BY THE CENTRAL NUCLEUS OF THE AMYGDALA
Thanks from
#RSoA2019
to all attendees. We are pleased so many are tweeting they found the meeting filled with great research. And thanks Mother Nature for a nice week: an excessive heat watch for Minneapolis as the temperatures surge to dangerous levels. Stay cool; stay inside!
Congratulations! 2020 Gordis Research Recognition Award Student Finalist: MARIA TORRUELLA SUAREZ, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: EXPLORING MECHANISMS UNDERLYING CEA-NTS NEURONAL REGULATION OF ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION
Congratulations! 2020 Gordis Research Recognition Award Post-Doc Finalist: LAURA GIACOMETTI, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia: ASTROCYTE MODULATION REDUCES ETHANOL DEPENDENCE-INDUCED IMPAIRMENTS IN EXTINCTION IN FEMALE MICE
Congratulations to the 2019 ENOCH GORDIS AWARD WINNERS!!
Postdoc Bio/Preclinical: Elizabeth Avegno
Postdoc Psych/Clinical: Irene Tung
Student Bio/Preclinical: Harold Haun
Student Psych/Clinical: Scott Graupensperger
#RSoA2019
RSA 2021 Gordis Recognition Award winners! Congratutions to:
Jack Waddell, student, Arizona State University
Todd Nentwig, student, Medical University of South Carolina
Reesha Patel, postdoc, The Scripps Research Institute
Yasmin Zakiniaeiz, postdoc, Yale School of Medicine
RSA welcomes Michael Miles as the Societyโs incoming Vice President and Jessica Cronce as its incoming Treasurer - terms begin June 25, 2020. Other election news:
@DrNadiaChaudhri
Nadia, you are truly an inspiration to thousands! RSA is proud to be the โcaretakerโof one of your legacies - Nadia Chaudhri Rising Scholars Awards. Your Sun and Moon will retain your light.
RSA Doctoral Student Small Grants Awardee: Congratulations to: JACK WADDELL, Arizona State University, A MIXED METHODS ANALYSIS OF CO-USE SUBJECTIVE EFFECTS ON DAILY DRINKING: INTEGRATING QUALITATIVE AND EVENT-LEVEL QUANTITATIVE DATA
Congratulations! 2020 Gordis Research Recognition Award Post-Doc Finalist: ASHLEY WATTS, University of Missouri School of Medicine, St. Louis: SYMPTOM-LEVEL ANALYSIS OF GENETIC HETEROGENEITY WITHIN ALCOHOL USE DISORDER: DISTINCT SOURCES WITH DIFFERENTIABLE CORRELATES
#RSoA2019
is on its final day! Thank you to all who attended, presented, exhibited, donated and/or worked as an RSA Aide!!! There would not be an RSA without you! See you at (NEW)
#RSAISBRA2020
Congratulations! 2020 Gordis Research Recognition Award Post-Doc Finalist: MARCUS WEERA, Louisiana State University HSC, New Orleans: CENTRAL AMYGDALA & LATERAL HYPOTHALAMUS MEDIATE STRESS EFFECTS ON ALCOHOL DRINKING AND AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR
CONGRATS to 2021 ACER Journal Awardee for Outstanding Paper by an Early Career Investigator - Student: ELIZABETH SNEDDON, BA, MA - โIncreased Responding for Alcohol and Resistance to Aversion in Female Miceโ ACER, Vol 44, No 7, 2020: pp 1400โ1409
Post-docs looking for position; seniors looking for trainees; students and post-docs identify yourself...
#RSoA2019
located near RSA Desk and soon by poster room. Both main level.
RSA 2019 Gordis Award Finalists: POST-DOCS: Elizabeth Avegno, Bart de Laat, Ashley Helle, Lara Hwa, Reesha Patel, Irene Tung. Check out their talks/posters at RSA2019!
TING-KAI LI, M.D.-A TRIBUTE TO A FATHER OF STUDIES OF ALCOHOLISM: Lovely tribute this morning for the person who changed the course of my life when he (and Dr. Henri Begleiter) hired me on at RSA on March 15, 1987. I am forever grateful. Debby Sharp
#RSoA2019
#alcohol
#alcoholism
RSA 2019 Gordis Award Finalists: STUDENTS: Christal Davis, Sarah Ewin, Scott Graupensperger, Harold Haun, Kayleigh McCarty, Waylin Yu. Check out their talks/posters at RSA2019!
CONGRATS to 2021 ACER Journal Awardee for Outstanding Paper by an Early Career Investigator-Post-Doc: ANGELA STEVENS, PhD-โHeaviness of Alcohol Use, Alcohol Problems, and Subjective Intoxication Predict Discrepant Drinking Reports in Daily Lifeโ ACER, V-44,
#7
, 2020: pp 1468-1478
2019 UNDERGRADUATE DIVERSITY TRAVEL AWARDEES: Angelina Leary and Eliza Elliotte
2019 GRADUATE STUDENT SMALL GRANTS PROGRAM โ AWARDEES: Pratik Adhikari, Molly Bowdring, Julianne Price, and Kathryn Przybysz
See RSA email for more detailsโฆ
Congratulations! RSA Grad Student Small Grants Awardee MARGARET MINNIG, Boston University, Boston, MA: Involvement of prelimbic cortex Pituitary Adenylate Cyclase Activating Polypeptide in alcohol consumption
Congratulations! RSA Grad Student Small Grants Awardee HOLLY BOYLE, Brown University, Providence, RI: Simultaneous alcohol and marijuana (SAM) use: Mixed-methods exploration of determinants, mechanisms, and consequences
Join us for NIAAAโs 50th Anniversary Science Symposiumโcelebrating 5 decades of advancing research on
#alcohol
use disorder & alcohol-related problems. Don't miss our expert guest lectures, w/ live Q-&-A. Tune in Nov. 30 - Dec. 1, at 1pm daily
#NIAAA50
47th Annual RSA Scientific Meeting
June 22-26, 2024
Minneapolis, Minnesota
CALL FOR PROGRAM PROPOSALS AND ABSTRACTS
and other meeting related information
RSA-2024 details, submission forms and deadlines now available!
@jdavidjentsch
RSA agrees with you, we missed an opportunity to shift to weekdays once we pivoted to a virtual meeting. FYI: all sessions, including livestream, will be recorded and available to registrants through August 31.
Congratulations! RSA Grad Student Small Grants Awardee ERIN FERGUSON, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL: The Impact of Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness on Alcohol and Marijuana Demand Among Co-Users
RSA Doctoral Student Small Grants Awardee: Congratulations to: NATALIA VAN DOREN, The Pennsylvania State University, CHARACTERIZING THE ROLE OF AFFECT IN SUBSTANCE USE IN DAILY LIFE: A NOVEL APPLICATION OF LATENT PROFILE ANALYSIS FOR DAILY DIARY DATA
Oh my gosh! A major anonymous donation has put it within dollars of our 100k goal!
There have been 885 donations to this campaign.
I read your names aloud daily; your kind messages are etched in my heart; I wish I knew the anonymous donors!
Crying! Joyful, grateful tears!
RSA19 ELECTION RESULTS: Terms begin at the end of the RSA 2019 Meeting:
President Elect โ Patricia Molina
Secretary โ William Corbin
New Board Members: Susan Luczak, Jennifer Read, and Heather Richardson
Check email for more details...
2021 RSA GRADUATE STUDENT SMALL GRANTS PROGRAM The 1-year $5K awards support supplies, salary and/or participation in short courses. Five grants will be awarded, with at least 1 supporting a diversity applicant. LOI submission at:
It's Baaack! RSA Alcohol Lecture Series now available! Free to public, with subtitles + auto-translate. Also under "Resources" at:
In depth professional series:
Series for interested non-professionals:
RSA Graduate Student Small Grants Program - CALL FOR LETTERS OF INTENT:
Deadline: October 14, 2019
This is the 2nd year for this RSA initiative - apply soon. Donations also accepted for this program:
SPREAD THE WORD and BE SURE TO LIKE: RSA Alcohol Lecture Series is free to researchers and general public, with subtitles + auto-translate. Also at:
Professional series:
Series for general public:
Congratulations to the student and postdoctoral finalists for the 2023 Enoch Gordis Research Recognition Awards! These awards are given annually to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows conducting exceptional work in alcohol research.
Congratulations! 2020 Gordis Research Recognition Award Post-Doc Finalist: DARIA PIACENTINO, NIH/NIAAA/NIDA: LONG-TERM BUT NOT SHORT-TERM ETHANOL BINGE DRINKING LEADS TO CHANGES IN THE GUT MICROBIOTA AND THE FECAL METABOLOME IN MALE BABOONS
2020 ACER Journal Award for Outstanding Paper
by an Early Career Investigator (publications in 2019)
CONGRATULATIONS to:
Anny Gano - SUNY Binghamton (currently at Medical University of South Carolina)
Ruschelle Leone - Georgia State University
RSA UNDERGRADUATE DIVERSITY TRAVEL AWARDS
A travel award opportunity for under-represented minorities to attend the RSA Annual Scientific Conference and present their research during a poster session. DEADLINE: January 8, 2019 (corrected).
Congratulations to the 2021 RSA (Frank)
SEIXAS AWARD Winner!
The RSA Board of Directors selects the recipient of this award based on their service to the alcohol research field. And the Awardee is: Lara Ray, Ph.D., University of California Los Angeles, Department of Psychology
RSA Meeting joint with ISBRA Congress: 2020 - June 20-24 - New Orleans, Louisiana - initial meeting details to be posted October 15 including program submission forms.
@ISBRAComm
#alcohol
See you at
#RSAISBRA2020
Sorry for technical issues with entering the RSA/ISBRA virtual platform. The vendor is working on the issue. I will post once fixed.
Not ideal: the meeting content will be made available to registrants through August 31. This includes recordings of livestream sessions.
On June 25, Patricia Molina begins her term as RSAโs President. We are looking forward to her leadership over the coming year. Outgoing RSA President, Robert Swift, will โpass the torchโ during our Virtual Closing Ceremony on June 24. Details coming soon. Other election news:
For those attending
@RSAposts
please check out this handy graphic or the whole paper at
Update your talks, check your language... talk to members of your lab, send this out to your co-presenters. Let's reduce stigma at RSA!
@RSAposts
RSA-2022 Program Schedule coming soon! We are finalizing a few more details. The program, registration form (with RSVPs for committee / special events), lodging form, and more expected to be posted March 10. We will email and tweet once we post.
Congratulations! 2020 Gordis Research Recognition Award Student Finalist: SARAH HAGERTY, University of Colorado, Boulder: UNDERSTANDING THE LONGITUDINAL RELATIONSHIPS AMONG THE GUT MICROBIOME, PERIPHERAL INFLAMMATION, AND ALCOHOL USE THROUGHOUT AN 8-WEEK BEHAVIORAL INTERVENTION
Introducing "Short Takes with NIAAA," a new series of 60-second videos that explain, in an easy-to-understand way, the meaning of commonly usedโbut often misunderstoodโalcohol terms. What's
#BingeDrinking
? Alcohol
#blackout
? Alcohol
#overdose
? Learn more:
RSA-2022 Meeting - JANUARY 10 DEADLINE for posters and young investigator meeting awards!
Submit poster first - abstract # required for award applications.
RSA / ISBRA-2020 MEETING
DEADLINE: JANUARY 10th 11:59PM CENTRAL
SUBMISSIONS FOR: Poster Abstracts; Stu / JI Meeting Awards; Gordis Recognition Awards; Undergrad Diversity Travel Awards
Check the meeting site or your emails for more details.
#RSAISBRA2020
RSA Call for Letters of Intent for new Graduate Student Small Grants Program. A total of four MD, PhD, or MD/PhD students will each receive $5,000 to support their projects in the first year of the program. DEADLINE: OCTOBER 29, 2018 AT 10:00PM EST
Congratulations! 2020 Gordis Research Recognition Award Student Finalist: WILLIAM PELHAM, Arizona State University, Tempe: HOW EARLY AND HOW WELL CAN WE PREDICT EARLY ONSET OF ALCOHOL USE?
RSA Doctoral Student Small Grants Awardee: Congratulations to: MINGXIN YANG, University of Florida, ELUCIDATING THE ROLE OF ALCOHOL-RESPONSIVE VAGAL NEURONS IN ALCOHOL INTAKE AND REWARD
Congratulations! 2020 Gordis Research Recognition Award Post-Doc Finalist: FRANCES WANG, University of Pittsburgh - Psychiatry, Pittsburgh: THE NATURE OF ALCOHOL PROBLEMS DIFFERS FOR YOUNG ADULTS WITH AND WITHOUT CHILDHOOD ADHD
Congratulations to the 2019 RSA SEIXAS AWARDEE โ based on his service to the alcohol research field, the awardee is: DR. VICTOR HESSELBROCK, Univ of Connecticut Sch of Med, Dept of Psychiatry โ we surprised him during the 2019 RSA Closing Ceremony in Minneapolis!
#RSoA2019
Congratulations! 2020 Gordis Research Recognition Award Student Finalist: RACHEL REYES, University of Southern California, Los Angeles: DISRUPTION OF THE COMMENSAL MICROBIOME INCREASES ETHANOL CONSUMPTION AND AFFECTS RELATED BEHAVIORS IN A BINGE-LIKE DRINKING MODEL
2019-RSA Henri Begleiter Excellence in Research Awardee - Dr. Edith Sullivan. This award is given to an individual demonstrating innovation or creativity and excellence in their research and/or someone whose work has a major impact on the field.
2019-RSA Marlatt Mentorship Awardee โ Dr. Susan Tapert. This award is given to an individual whose mentoring of young researchers in the alcohol research field is demonstrated to be exception, therefore, should be recognized.
Join RSA - we will welcome you to our alcohol research community!!! The OCTOBER 1 deadline for >NEW< RSA member applications is approaching. Member Applications should be submitted online at:
To >RENEW<, notices will be sent in mid-Oct.
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