and in honor of the 80th birthday of Prof. Minping Qian of Peking University. Most of the twenty eight speakers were former students or close collaborators of Prof. Qian; and there were over eighty participants from all over China and United States. The conference featured four keynote talks by Profs. Minping Qian, Jianfeng Feng, Jianhua Guo, and Michael Q Zhang and 24 talks by others. While Prof. Qian had trained many theoretical probabilists, the organization committee decided to focus on the applications of probability and statistics to biology due to Prof. Qian's more recent research interest that has spanned the past 20 years. The topics of the talks covered dynamics modeling and analyses of data from single cells, gene expression and genomic sequence analysis, molecular networks, time series, molecular and brain imaging, meta-genomics, genome wide association studies, and clinical trials. Figure 1 shows the attendees of the workshop and Prof. Qian's keynote talk. Figure 2 shows some snapshots from the birthday celebration. In the present report, we give a brief introduction of Prof. Qian's contributions to research and education, followed by summaries of the talks. A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY Minping was born in 1939 in an academic family. Her father, Baojun Qian, was a famous professor of polymer science. In 1951, he was invited to establish East China College of Textile Technology (now Donghua University) and became its Vice President, President and honorary President. Minping's brother, Min Qian, was a wellknown mathematical physicist of Peking University, China. He contributed greatly to the theory of Markov