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Physics of Biological Systems

From Molecules to Species

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1997

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Editors:
  1. Henrik Flyvbjerg
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  2. John Hertz
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  3. Mogens H. Jensen
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  4. Ole G. Mouritsen
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  5. Kim Sneppen
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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 480)

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Table of contents (16 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Introduction: Physics - and the Physics of Biological Systems

    • Henrik Flyvbjerg, Ole G. Mouritsen
    Pages 1-8

  3. Microchips for Sorting DNA

    • Thomas Duke, Robert H. Austin
    Pages 11-26

  4. The Complexity of Proteins

    • Hans Frauenfelder
    Pages 29-60

  5. The Energy Landscape Theory of Protein Folding

    • Peter G. Wolynes, Zan Luthey-Schulten
    Pages 61-79

  6. From Interatomic Interactions to Protein Structure

    • Joseph D. Bryngelson, Eric M. Billings
    Pages 80-116

  7. Probing Protein Motion Through Temperature Echoes

    • Klaus Schulten, Hui Lu, Linsen Bai
    Pages 117-152

  8. Motor Proteins

    • Jonathon Howard, Frederick Gittes
    Pages 155-170

  9. Shapes and Fluctuations in Membranes

    • Luca Peliti
    Pages 171-188

  10. Bending Energy Concept of Vesicle and Cell Shapes and Shape Transitions

    • Erich Sackmann
    Pages 189-212

  11. Microtubule Dynamics

    • Henrik Flyvbjerg
    Pages 213-230

  12. A Physicist’s Introduction to Brains and Neurons

    • William Softky, Gary Holt
    Pages 233-251

  13. Statistical Mechanics and Sensory Signal Processing

    • William Bialek
    Pages 252-280

  14. Molecular Evolutionary Biology

    • Peter Schuster, Jacqueline Weber, Walter Grüner, Christian Reidys
    Pages 283-306

  15. Smart Bacterial Colonies

    • Eshel Ben-Jacob, Inon Cohen, Andras Czirók
    Pages 307-324

  16. Complementarity of Physics, Biology and Geometry in the Dynamics of Swimming Micro-Organisms

    • John O. Kessler, Nick A. Hill
    Pages 325-340

  17. Mass Extinctions vs. Uniformitarianism in Biological Evolution

    • Per Bak, Maya Paczuski
    Pages 341-356

  18. Back Matter

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This book contains pedagogical introductions to a selection of the most exciting subjects in current biological physics: sorting DNA on a microchip: a first step towards miniature laboratories on a chip; modeling protein folding, structure, and motion; physics of organelles: mechanical characteristics of molecular motors; dynamics of microtubules; shapes of membranes, vesicles and cells; a physicist's view of brains and neurons; statistics of sensory signal processing; evolutionary biology of molecules; pattern forming bacterial colonies; model ecologies with Darwinian co-evolution. The book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in physics, biology and mathematical modeling who have no prior knowledge of its

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"...an extraordinarily deep and superbly pedagogical background for physical research at all levels, from molecules to evolution...a truly inspiring contribution to the field." - Physics Today

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