Nice group photo from the NIMBioS workshop Mathematical Modeling of Intracellular Movements, which was held on October 24-26, 2011 at NIMBioS. I was the one on the far right. The workshop was held in one of the newest NSF mathematical research insititutes, call National Institute of Mathematical and Biological Synthesis, housed on the campus of the beautiful University of Tennessee, Knoxville campus. We were put in a nice hotel right next to the World Fair park, which had been built for the 1982 World Fair (Expo), which happened to be the first World Expo that PRC ever participated. The park was surpringly well-maintained ---if you walk through the park, you may feel as if the World Fair (Expo) just happened yesterday. The city of Knoxiville has a nice downtown area with lots of nice restaurants, and also an interesting historical district which is not too far from the downtown. The river and the railway along the river is definitely a scence not to be missed by any causal visitor. The workshop itself turned out to be very successful and fruitful. There are lots of young people and you can sense the excitement at the threshold of a new era in biology based on quantitative techniques and exciting high resolution and real-time measurements. There are very nice interactions and very interesting discussions on the interfaces of mathematics and biology (mainly plant science), including live cell imaging, microtubule modeling, measurement of intracellular movements (diffusion), and surprisingly shape (geometry) plays an important role in many of these problems.
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