Forces, Growth and Form in Soft Condensed Matter: At the Interface between Physics and Biology

- Preface. Organizing committee and participants. - The physico-chemical basis of self-assembling structures; J. Israelachvili, I. Ladyzinski. - Supramolecular assembly of biological molecules; C.R. Safinya. - Simple examples of cell motility; J.-F. Joanny. - Statistical physics of unzipping DNA; D.R. Nelson. Can theory predict two-state protein folding rates? An experimental perspective; B. Gillesbie, K.W. Plaxco. - Copolymers with long-range correlations: sequence design near a surface; N.Yu. Starovoitova, P.G. Khalatur, A.R. Khokhlov. - Novel approach to the study of rotational and translational diffusion in crystals; A.V. Belushkin. - The bacterial flagellar motor; R.M. Berry. - Self-assembly and the dynamics of magnetic holes; A.T. Skjeltorp, J. Akselvoll, K. De Lange Kristiansen, G. Helgesen, R. Toussaint, E.G. Flekkøy, J. Cernak. - Structures in molecular networks; K. Sneppen, S. Maslov, K.A. Eriksen. - Oscillating gene expressions in regulatory networks; M.H. Jensen, K. Sneppen, T. Giana. Transport properties of segmented polymers and non-spherical nanoparticles studied by Brownian dynamics simulation; S.N. Naess, A. Elgsaeter. - Cytokinesis: the initial linear phase crosses over to a multiplicity of non-linear endings; D. Biron, P. Libros, D. Sagi, D. Mirelman, E. Moses. Information dynamics in living systems; J. Breivik. - Index.