
Leading professors from all over the world including MIT, Northwestern University, Peking University, Tsinghua University, University of Cambridge, Yale University, and others presented their latest research, covering a wide range of interdisciplinary fields across biology and physics. Major scientific questions regarding dense packing and jamming in biological systems were discussed across multiple length scales - proteins, cells, and tissues. Focus topics included dense packing in protein cores, computational modeling of tissues and tumors, wound healing, epithelial-mesenchymal transitions, cell locomotion and spreading, swarming bacteria, and biological self-assembly processes. An improved understanding of these topics could advance the fundamental understanding of non-equilibrium biological processes in a physical context, with potential applications in human development and disease.