Conference: Eighth International Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB 2007) to be held October 1-6, 2007 in Long Beach, CA

这笔赠款为参加将于2007年10月1日至6日在加利福尼亚州长滩举行的第八届系统生物学国际会议(ICSB 2007)的10名与会者提供部分旅费。ICSB被公认为系统生物学的首屈一指的会议。会议的目的是将来自不同学科的科学家聚集在一起，讨论系统生物学的创造性和创新性方法，即将生物过程作为整个系统而不是孤立的部分进行定量研究。就智力优势而言，健壮性、可进化性、设计和复杂性等问题将在ICSB 2007上突出展示。人们如何对复杂的生物系统进行正向和反向工程？这些都是21世纪的核心挑战，此次会议将通过该计划的各个方面刺激进展。会议包括八个全体会议：(1)形态发生，(2)数学前沿，(3)创新方法，(4)网络结构与调控，(5)合成生物学，(6)系统生物信息学，(7)学生会议，(8)系统生物医学。主办方计划从提交的摘要库中选出25%的发言者。将有一天的辅导和开幕主旨演讲和招待会(10月1日)，然后是为期三天(10月2日至4日)的演讲，包括一次完全由学生演讲者组成的会议，两次海报会议和两次小型研讨会。会议将以为期两天(10月5日至6日)的研讨会结束。根据过去的经验，会议将吸引代表不同学科和职业发展阶段的不拘一格的观众。会议的一项指导原则是鼓励在有利于集思广益的非正式气氛中交流信息。特别活动包括一个关于系统生物学教育的小型研讨会，专门为这次会议出版的《分子系统生物学》杂志的特刊，以及初步计划的新的国际系统生物学学会的成立会议，该学会将是未来会议的赞助组织。会议记录将以印刷形式和光盘形式分发给与会者。会议网站(www.icsb-2007.org)提供了关于ICSB 2007的更多信息。ICSB的一个目标是证明系统生物学是为大众服务的，而不仅仅是少数精英。关键是拥抱21世纪生物学的多学科性质和合作的重要性。在更广泛的影响方面，会议将汇集来自不同智力背景、视角、文化和国家的科学家，以开始制定一种全新的生物学思维方式和进行生物研究，这将使整个社区都能获得，并将导致生物技术和医学的革命性突破。

This grant provides partial travel support for ten participants attending the Eighth International Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB 2007) which will be held from October 1 to 6, 2007 in Long Beach, CA. ICSB is widely acknowledged as the premiere conference on systems biology. The purpose of the conference is to bring together scientists from a variety of disciplines to discuss creative and innovative approaches to systems biology, the quantitative study of biological processes as whole systems instead of isolated parts. In terms of intellectual merit, issues such as robustness, evolveability, design, and complexity will be featured prominently at ICSB 2007. How does one forward and reverse engineer complex biological systems? These are central challenges in the 21st century, and the meeting will stimulate progress through various aspects of the program. The conference contains eight plenary sessions: (1) Morphogenesis, (2) Mathematical Frontiers, (3) Innovative Approaches, (4) Network Structure and Regulation, (5) Synthetic Biology, (6) Systems Bioinformatics, (7) Student Session, and (8) Systems Biomedicine. The organizers plan to select 25% of the speakers from the pool of submitted abstracts. There will be one day of tutorials and the opening keynote address and reception (October 1) followed by three days (October 2 - 4) of talks including a session consisting exclusively of student speakers, two poster sessions, and two minisymposia. The conference will conclude with two days (October 5 - 6) of workshops. Based on past experience, the meeting will attract an eclectic audience representing a variety of disciplines and stages of career development. A guiding principle of the meeting is encouraging information exchange in an informal atmosphere conducive to brainstorming. Special events include a minisymposium on systems biology education, a special issue of the journal Molecular Systems Biology devoted to the conference, and a tentatively planned inaugural meeting for the new International Society of Systems Biology, which will be a sponsoring organization for future conferences. The conference proceedings will be distributed to attendees in printed form and as a CD-ROM. More information on ICSB 2007 is available on the conference web site (www.icsb-2007.org). An objective of ICSB is to demonstrate that systems biology is for the masses and not just the elite few. The key is to embrace the multidisciplinary nature of biology in the 21st century and the importance of collaborations. In terms of broader impact, the conference will bring together scientists from different intellectual backgrounds, perspectives, cultures, and countries in order to begin to formulate a fundamentally new way of thinking about biology and performing biology research that is accessible to the whole community and that will lead to revolutionary breakthroughs in biotechnology and medicine.