We had a brief discussion last night of all the session chairs to just get a sense for where everyone was and look at some of the similarities. There clearly is complexity that we will hear about through all the different sessions. We will hear about diversity across many different species - microorganisms, again, another common theme. And one of the other things I think we will hear about a lot it is the integration across multiple length-scales. But there also are some key problems, and these were highlighted last night in our discussions.
Biologist speak a different language than traditional physical scientists and engineers.
Also, there are fundamentally different ways of approaching problems.