The meeting, focused on the topic of membrane biophysics, will bring together scientists with a diverse range of perspectives, approaches, and disciplines including (but not limited to) physiology, engineering, cell biology, chemistry, and physics. The program seeks to catalyze cross-fertilization that spurs frontier research advances, bringing together scientists working in different areas of membrane biology, including those using computational methods and those using experimental methods, those focusing on the membrane lipids and those focusing on the membrane proteins, those studying model membranes and those studying biological membranes.