The annual Science@theInterface Symposium, organized by the Institute for Biophysical Dynamics at The University of Chicago and held at the Gleacher Center in downtown Chicago, highlights a frontier area of interdisciplinary research each year, with this year's theme being “Quantitative Approaches to Gene Expression”. Our goal with these symposia is to focus on research at the interface between the biological and physical sciences, featuring leaders from the national and international scientific communities.

Previous topics have included:

2004 Chemical Biology
Rustem Ismagilov, Benjamin Cravatt, Peter Seeberger, Milan Mrksich (organizer), David Liu, Wilfred Van der Donk

2005 Computational Biology
Philippe Cluzel (organizer), Martin Engelhard, James E. Ferrell Jr., Andrew W. Murray, Tao Pan, Saeed Tavazoie

2006 Single Molecule Biology and Imaging
Taekjip Ha, Stephen Kowalczykowski, Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Ron Rock, Norbert Scherer (organizer), Michelle Wang

2007 Chemistry for Biology
Brian Chait, Tom Muir, Claudia Schmidt-Dannert, Jun Yin, Benoit Roux, Stephen Kent (organizer), Bob Stroud and Stephen Fesik.