Shanshan Qin and Haojie Li attended the 3rd Santa Barbara advanced summer shool for quantitative biology from Aug 3 to Sept 5 at UC Santa Barbara. The aim of this course was to make progress towards filling the gap between cell and evolutionary biology. With well desigened reseach projects, this course combined state-of-the-art in vivo microscopy, bioinformatics analysis and theoretical modeling aimed at uncovering the evolutionary basis of cellular function and behavior at multiple scales. Druing the five-week intense course, Shanshan did two rounds of experimental rotation projects about embroygenesis of various insects and Haojie did two rounds theoretical rotation projects. They enjoyed the multi-culture atmosphere, and benefited a lot from interacting with other participants
