Workshop Organizers: Zemer Gitai, Hsin-Jung (Sophia) Li, Zhiyuan Li, Eric Weischaus, Ned Wingreen

Living systems are ever changing, transitioning from one state to another, from one event to the next. Transitions are essential for biology on multiple scales, from metabolic transition in prokaryotes to the maternal to zygotic transition during embryogenesis, and to the transition to multicellularity in the history of life. Commonalities exist in this variety of transitions, as their mathematical descriptions often appear to converge at a fundamental level. By bringing together researchers addressing a diversity of transitions in biology from both experimental and theoretical backgrounds, our workshop aims to promote interdisciplinary communication and collaboration.