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摘要

Live jazz music crashes through the dark bar as my friend and I discuss what it means to be 'interdisciplinary'. My beer-loosened words are barely audible over the music.rnFirst, I say, we must define a discipline. I describe my experience as a postdoc. In my first position, I did experimental work in single-molecule biophysics, manipulating muscle proteins with laser tweezers. Perhaps a dozen labs use this method; they have a vocabulary and notation convention that define the discipline.