“It’s become very fashionable in the past five years,” says Jean-François Lutz, a macromolecular chemist at the University of Strasbourg in France.

Several other speakers were continental biologists, at that time guests at the Zoological Station, who only briefly alluded to macromolecular structure.

The group is conducting computational studies of macromolecular interactions, or as Moser explains it, “computer simulations of very large biological systems, like a cell.”