Mechbio Symposium: Finding the Pieces, Building the Puzzle; University of California-San Diego; La Jolla, California; August 4-5, 2016

“机械生物研讨会：寻找碎片，构建拼图；加州大学圣地亚哥分校；2016年8月4日至5日“将是一个论坛，来自STEM学科和生命科学的理论家，计算科学家和实验家可以开始关于整合不同学科和方法以推进定量多尺度机械生物学领域的对话。为了在这些领域具有代表性，至少有40-50名参与者将参加。这个数字将允许不同的学科得到很好的代表，而不是压倒性的大。有许多年会都有广泛主题的会议，但这次会议将集中讨论从细胞到组织到器官的不同尺度的生物学力学主题。除了平台讲座和海报会议，会议还将促进导师和学员之间的合作努力和潜在的伙伴关系。在整个会议期间，小组会议的任务是列出一系列具体目标，以回答“你如何将细胞/组织/器官机制组合在一起”的问题。通过吸引不同职业水平的听众，并将会议计划作为期刊报告传播给更多的听众，本次研讨会将使我们能够突出器官、组织和细胞水平上力学的重要性。组织者将积极招募不同职业阶段、性别和未被充分代表的少数民族的演讲者和参与者。研讨会的重点是机械生物学和促进多学科之间的合作，这与生物力学和机械生物学计划的目标直接相关。

The "Mechbio Symposium: Finding the Pieces, Building the Puzzle; University of California, San Diego; August 4-5, 2016" will be a forum where theorists, computational scientists, and experimentalists from both the STEM disciplines and the Life Sciences can begin a conversation about integrating different disciplines and methodologies to advance the field of quantitative multiscale mechanobiology. In order to have a cross-sectional representation of these fields, at least 40-50 participants will attend. This number will allow the different disciplines to be well-represented, without being overwhelmingly large. There are many annual societies with meetings on broad themes, but this meeting will focus on the theme of mechanics in biology across the different scales from cells to tissues to organs. In addition to platform talks and poster sessions, the meeting will also foster collaborative efforts and potential partnerships between mentors and mentees. Break out sessions throughout the meeting with small groups will be given the task of laying out a list of specific aims to answer the question "How would you put together a cell's/tissue/organ mechanome"? By engaging an audience across different career levels, and by disseminating the conference program to a larger audience as a journal report, this symposium will enable us to highlight the importance of mechanics at the organ, tissue, and cellular level. The organizers will actively recruit speakers and participants at different career stages, gender, and underrepresented minorities.The focus of the Symposium on mechanobiology and fostering collaboration among the multiple disciplines is of direct interest to the goals of the Biomechanics and Mechanobiology program.