Dr. Melik Demirel co-organized the 1st Annual SYSTEMS BIOLOGY WORKSHOP together with Dr. Randen Patterson (Biology). The scope of this workshop was to highlight the strength of multidisciplinary approaches to Biology. Specifically the symposium demonstrated how the integration of mathematical-modeling, molecular-interaction networks, evolution, comparative genomics, bioinformatics, knowledge bases, and the physics of cellular structures can be applied to empirical experimental biology.