2004 Theoretical Biology and Biomathematics Gordon Conference

Elston 首席研究员和他的同事组织了2004年戈登理论生物学和生物数学研究会议。 会议的形式是九个正式会议，每个会议开始时由会议主席介绍该领域，然后是两个或三个特邀演讲。除了正式的会议，还有两个下午的海报会议。会议主席和特邀演讲者包括既有既定的领导者和精力充沛的新研究者，他们都是定量生物学的前沿。 与传统一致，会议上代表了从生态学空间建模到生物分子发动机的各种主题。这个广泛的主题，包括从分子水平到整个生物体的生物现象，反映了今年会议的主题，“多尺度生物学”。“特邀发言人是根据他们的专业知识和成就挑选的，同时努力平衡性别和少数群体的代表性。 本次会议的主要目标是将定量生物学领域的成熟和年轻的研究人员聚集在一起，分享新的方法，并讨论这一令人兴奋和快速发展的领域的进展。 相对较少的与会者人数和非正式的会议形式为新的科学合作的萌芽提供了理想的环境。这个多学科的会议是至关重要的，以确定新的挑战和方向，在迅速发展的理论生物学领域。 许多研究生和博士后将参加今年的会议。 因此，这次会议有助于增加在定量生物学领域工作的科学家数量。

Elston The principal investigator and his colleagues organize the2004 Gordon Research Conference on Theoretical Biology andBiomathematics. The format of the conference is nine formalsessions, each beginning with an introduction to the field by thesession chair followed by two or three invited talks. In additionto the formal sessions, there are two afternoon poster sessions.The session chairs and invited speakers consist of bothestablished leaders and energetic new investigators who are at theforefront of quantitative biology. Consistent with tradition, awide variety of topics ranging from spatial modeling in ecology tobiological molecular motors are represented at the conference. This breadth of topics, which includes biological phenomenaranging from the molecular level up to the whole organism,reflects the theme of this year's conference, "multi-scalebiology." Invited speakers are selected based on their expertiseand accomplishments, while trying to balance gender and minorityrepresentation. The primary goal of this conference is to bring togetherestablished and young investigators from the field of quantitativebiology to share new approaches and discuss advances in thisexciting and rapidly growing area. The relatively small number ofattendees and informal format of the meeting provide an idealsetting for germinating new scientific collaborations. Thismultidisciplinary conference is crucial for identifying newchallenges and directions in the rapidly growing field oftheoretical biology. Many graduate students and postdoctoralfellows are attending this year's meeting. Therefore, theconference serves to increase the number of scientists working inareas of quantitative biology.