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

来自STEM学科和生命科学的理论家、计算科学家和实验者将在2016年8月4日至5日举行的“机械生物研讨会：寻找碎片，构建谜题；加州大学圣地亚哥分校”将成为一个论坛，讨论整合不同学科和方法以推进定量多尺度机械生物学领域。为了有这些领域的横截面代表，至少将有40-50名参与者参加。这个数字将使不同的学科得到很好的代表，而不是压倒性的大。有许多年度学会都有关于广泛主题的会议，但这次会议将集中讨论从细胞到组织再到器官的不同尺度的生物学中的力学主题。除了平台讨论和海报会议外，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，与小组举行的分组会议将被赋予列出一系列具体目标的任务，以回答“你将如何组合细胞/组织/器官的机制”的问题。通过吸引不同职业水平的观众，并将会议计划作为期刊报告传播给更多的观众，这次研讨会将使我们能够突出机械在器官、组织和细胞水平上的重要性。组织者将积极招募不同职业阶段、性别和代表性不足的少数民族的演讲者和参与者。机械生物学研讨会的重点是促进多学科之间的合作，这与生物力学和机械生物学项目的目标直接相关。

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.