2017 Cargese Summer School on Theoretical Biophysics in Corsica, France June 25-July 6, 2017

2017 Cargese理论生物物理学暑期学校，法国科西嘉岛 2017年6月25日-7月6日

• 批准号: 1740578
• 负责人: Ilya Nemenman
• 金额: $ 1万
• 依托单位: Emory University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-07-01 至 2018-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1740578&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: 2017; Cargese; Summer; Theoretical; Biophysics

This project will support participation of United States researchers at the 2017 Cargese Summer School on Theoretical Biophysics, June 25-July 6, 2017. The school will train 50 students (close to half of them from the United States), and the training will be done by 19-20 core and seminar lecturers and organizers. From the point of view of physics, biological systems stand out due to their complexity and heterogeneity. The school will be structured around core lectures (self-contained mini-courses), seminar presentations, and discussions. Student projects and symposia will provide an active learning component. The school will be aimed primarily at junior researchers in physical and mathematical disciplines, but interested in biological questions. The School will contribute to training the next generation of theorists on the interface of physics and life sciences, focusing especially on promoting women and traditionally underrepresented minorities. The School will further contribute towards the establishment and growth of the international, collaborative community of young researchers in this field.Living systems span many length and timescales, and are constantly kept out of equilibrium by active energy-consuming processes. Understanding their functioning poses a major challenge to traditional physical approaches. Despite their diversity, questions on the interface of physics and biology have in common the emergence of a global and collective phenomenon from a sum of local interactions. How to formulate these problems in a common language, and use it to make relevant and reliable biological predictions will be a major goal of this this summer school. The school will aim at understanding the functioning of biological systems, from cells to groups of organisms, in light of the laws of physics. Diverse topics from neuroscience to cellular signaling and how complexity emerges will be discussed.This project is being jointly supported by the Physics of Living Systems program in the Division of Physics and the Molecular Biophysics Program in the Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences.

该项目将支持美国研究人员参加2017年6月25日至7月6日举办的2017 Cargese理论生物物理学暑期学校。学校将培训50名学生（其中近一半来自美国），培训将在由 19-20 名核心和研讨会讲师和组织者完成。从物理学的角度来看，生物系统因其复杂性和异质性而脱颖而出。学校将围绕核心讲座（独立的迷你课程）、研讨会演讲和讨论进行组织。学生项目和研讨会将提供积极的学习内容。该学校将主要针对物理和数学学科的初级研究人员，但对生物学问题感兴趣。该学院将致力于培训下一代物理学和生命科学交叉领域的理论家，特别注重促进女性和传统上代表性不足的少数族裔的发展。学院将进一步为该领域年轻研究人员的国际合作社区的建立和发展做出贡献。生命系统跨越许多长度和时间尺度，并且不断地因活跃的能量消耗过程而失去平衡。了解它们的功能对传统的物理方法提出了重大挑战。尽管存在多样性，但关于物理学和生物学界面的问题有一个共同点：从局部相互作用的总和中出现了一种全球性的集体现象。如何用一种通用语言来表述这些问题，并用它来做出相关且可靠的生物学预测将是本次暑期学校的一个主要目标。该学院的目标是根据物理定律了解从细胞到生物体群体的生物系统的功能。将讨论从神经科学到细胞信号传导以及复杂性如何出现的各种主题。该项目得到了物理系生命系统物理学项目和分子和细胞生物科学系分子生物物理学项目的共同支持。