Physics of Biomaterials: Fluctuations, Selfassembly and Evolution

Preface. Introduction to the Physics of Biomaterials: The Role of Membranes; P. Pincus. What Does Neutron Spectroscopy Tell on the Dynamics of Amphiphilic Layers? D. Richter. Physical Aspects of Adhesion of Leukocytes; R. Bruinsma. Membrane-Associated-Proteins: Self-Assembly, Interactions, and Biomolecular Materials; C.R. Safinya, Yi Shen. Collective Phenomena in Mitosis: A Physicist's Perspective; S. Leibler. Mechanical Forces in the Biological World; D. Kuchnir Fygenson. A Biosensor that Monitors Mammalian Cells with Electrical Fields; I. Giaever, C.R. Keese. Knots and Applications to Biology, Chemistry and Physics; A.T. Skjeltorp, et al. Statistical and Linguistic Features of DNA Sequences;I H.E. Stanley, et al. The Basics of Protein Folding Physics; P.G. Wolynes. Evolutionary Mechanisms Involved in the Forestation of Tandem Repetitive Non-Coding DNA; K.S. Jakobsen, et al. Molecular Evolutionary Biology; P. Schuster, W. Grüner. Fitness Landscapes and Evolution; L. Peliti. Statistical Physics of Neural Networks; D. Sherrington. The Evolution of Complexity in Metazoans; J.W. Valentine. Extremal Dynamics and Punctuated Equilibrium in Co-Evolution; K. Sneppen, M.H. Jensen. Index.