Cellular Decision Making Workshop Proposal which will be held on April 19-21, 2010 in Arlington, Virginia.

由NSF/USA、EPSRC/UK和CIFAR/Canada共同主办的“蜂窝决策制定”国际研讨会将于2010年4月19日至21日在弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿举行，届时将讨论蜂窝决策过程测量和建模的最新技术以及未来面临的挑战。这些领域的进展将为复杂的生命系统如何运作提供预测基础。它将汇集来自生物和物理科学的主要专家，介绍和讨论以下四个关键领域的研究，解决以下基本领域。1. 实时研究单细胞水平的细胞决策过程。2. 将生物决策机制简化为更简单的模块。定量建模生物决策过程。4. 随机性在生物过程中的作用。本次会议由美国国家科学基金会物理部和分子细胞生物学部主办。

The international workshop, "Cellular Decision Making", co-sponsored by NSF/USA, EPSRC/UK, and CIFAR/Canada to be held in Arlington, VA on April 19-21, 2010 will discuss state-of-the-art techniques for both the measurement and modeling of cellular decision processes and the challenges that lie ahead. Progress in these areas will provide a predictive foundation for how complex living systems operate. It will bring together the leading experts from the biological and physical sciences to present and discuss research in the following four key areas that address the following fundamental areas. 1. Cellular decision processes studied at the single cell level in real time. 2. Reducing biological decision-making machinery to simpler modules.3. Quantitatively modeling biological decision processes. 4. Role of stochasticity within biological processes. The meeting is sponsored by the Physics and the Molecular Cell Biology Divisions at NSF.