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Building A Bridge Between Chemistry and Biology Richard N. Zare Department of Chemistry Stanford University Stanford, California 94305- 5080 USA [email protected]

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Page 1: Building A Bridge Between Chemistry and Biology Richard N. Zare Department of Chemistry Stanford University Stanford, California 94305-5080 USA

Building A Bridge BetweenChemistry and Biology

Richard N. ZareDepartment of Chemistry

Stanford UniversityStanford, California 94305-5080 USA

[email protected]

Page 2: Building A Bridge Between Chemistry and Biology Richard N. Zare Department of Chemistry Stanford University Stanford, California 94305-5080 USA

Biology Chemistry

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What Is The Problem?

Chemistry is mostly about molecules

Biology is mostly about organisms

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EmergenceEmergence is the way complex systems and patterns arise out of simple interactions.

We need to understand regulation/feedback

We need to go BEYOND THE MOLECULE

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Some Examples

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"Team Science: The Good, The Bad,

and The Ugly"

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Issues in Team Science

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What Are The Drivers?

Lure of solving complex problems More funding More impact

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The Nature of Interdisciplinary Studies

Knowledge arrives as a whole. Universities disintegrate knowledge, department by department. The promise of interdisciplinary studies is to reintegrate knowledge to promote discovery.

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What Are The Drawbacks?

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Importance of Communication Completion Credit

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GoalDiverse groups working together,

making creative contributions

to complex problems

at the cutting edge,

and extending themselves

to individually unreachable heights

is Team Science at its best.