ABSTRACT
While waiting in the entrance hall of an impressive new building for the interdisciplinary biosciences in the UK I watched a monitor set up on a constant loop with a slide show for guests. One of the images which flashed up was a picture of six students standing in front of the new building and smiling. The title was ‘some of the first new systems biologists’. The extent to which these students associated themselves with this title is something that I will explore in this chapter, which focuses on interdisciplinarity in the new field of systems biology, and its implications for individual disciplinary identity.
