On Friday, November 2, 2018, Project Leaders Kate MacCord, Kathryn Maxson Jones, Lucie Laplane, and Andrew Inkpen, will be joined by James S. McDonell Foundation President, Susan Fitzpatrick, in a roundtable discussion of “History, Philosophy, and the Life Sciences: The Importance of Bridging Disciplines” at the 2018 History of Science Society meeting in Seattle, WA. The group will highlight some of the research that is being done through the McDonnell Initiative @MBL, and discuss how and why historians and philosophers of science should collaborate with life scientists in order to transform discovery.