2018 Workshop: Quantum Biology and Quantum Processes in Biology

生物系统中量子现象的研究和识别是近几十年来越来越受到重视的跨学科领域，但由于物理科学家和生物学家的背景不同，研究进展缓慢。本次研讨会将汇集来自不同科学学科的青年和资深科学家，包括生物学、物理学、化学和量子信息科学，讨论需要量子理论的生物过程，如化学反应、电荷输运和量子生物现象，其中量子过程被生物系统用于特定功能，如磁接收、视觉光子吸收和光合作用。研讨会将有助于确定当前重要的主题和问题，以解决未来的研究，并将激发和可能确定新的研究课题量子现象在生物系统与量子信息科学和凝聚态物理的应用。本次研讨会由生物科学理事会分子与细胞生物科学部的分子生物物理学项目和数学与物理科学理事会物理部的生命系统物理学项目共同资助。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The study and identification of quantum phenomena in biological systems is an interdisciplinary field that has attracted increasing attention in the past few decades, but has slowly progressed in part due to different background of physical scientists and biologists. This workshop will bring young and senior scientists together from different scientific disciplines including biology, physics, chemistry, and quantum information science to discuss processes in biology that require quantum theory, like chemical reactions, charge transport, and quantum biological phenomena, where the quantum process is used by the biological system for a particular function, such as magneto reception, photon absorption in vision, and photosynthesis. The workshop will contribute toward defining current important topics and questions to be addressed with future research, and will stimulate and possibly identify new research topics of quantum phenomena in biological systems with applications in quantum information science and condensed matter physics. This workshop is co-funded by the Molecular Biophysics Program in the Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences in the Biological Sciences Directorate and the Physics of Living Systems Program in the Division of Physics in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.