Biologically Inspired Physics

Macromolecules.- Physics from Proteins.- Search and Recognition: Spin Glass Engineering as an Approach to Protein Structure Prediction.- Random Heteropolymers Folding.- DNA Topology.- Correlation Between Structural Conformations at Different Levels in Hemoglobin Determined by XANES.- Selective Constraints over DNA Sequence.- The Physics of DNA Electrophoresis.- Membranes.- Recent Developments in the Physics of Fluctuating Membranes.- Vesicle Shapes and Shape Transformations: A Systematic Study.- Theoretical Analysis of Phospholipid Vesicles and Red Blood Cell Shapes and the Effect of External Electric Field.- Lipid Membrane Curvature Elasticity and Protein Function.- Observation of Surface Undulations on the Mesoscopic Length Scale by NMR.- A Possible Correlation Between Fluctuations and Function of a Membrane Protein.- Microphase Separation in Bilayer Membranes.- Morphological Changes in Partially Polymerized Vesicles.- Unbinding Transitions of Polymers or Membranes in Two Dimensions.- Heat-Flux Driven Biomembrane Transport of Matter and Charge.- A Lattice Model for Steric Repulsive Interactions in Phospholipid Systems.- Cellular Structures.- Dynein-Microtubule Interactions.- Cell Movement and Automatic Control.- Dielectric Study of the Hydration Process in Biological Materials.- Photonic Conductivity in Biomaterials in the Frame of Percolation Model.- Networks.- Problems in Theoretical Immunology.- Specialization, Adaptation and Optimization in Dilute Random Attractor Neural Networks.- Computational Strategy in the Premotor Cortex of the Monkey: a Neural Network Model.- Morphogenesis.- Mechanisms of Biological Pattern Formation.- Liquid Crystalline Order in Collagen Networks.- Dynamical Systems.- Physical Approaches to Biological Evolution.- Quantitative Analysis of Selection and Mutation in Self-Replicating RNA.- Disordered Systems and Evolutionary Models.- What Controls the Exocytosis of Neurotransmitter?.- Structure and Function of the Photosynthetic Apparatus.- Relaxational Processes in Frustrated Random Systems: A Spherical-Spin Model.- Crystallography of Composite Flowers: Mode Locking and Dynamical Maps.- Participants.- Authors.