Slide title: Theoretical understanding: Comprehensive, multi-scale models

Slide image: Composite of several images forming a spiral that goes from the atomic scale, in the center, to the planetary scale. The photos are labeled as follows: atomic, molecular, cellular, tissue, organ, organism, habitat, population, community, ecosystem, planetary. A circle in the upper right shows an enlarged version of the organ, a brain.

Credit: Sara Raimo, National Science Foundation

Slide background image: An illustration titled "The Synapse Revealed" showing a neuron preparing to transmit a signal to its target

Slide background credit: Graham Johnson, Graham Johnson Medical Media

Design by: Adrian Apodaca, National Science Foundation