Proceedings of the first Workshop on Biological Physics 2000 : Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, September 18-22, 2000 / editors, Virulh Sa-yakanit, Leif Matsson, Hans Frauenfelder.

"Tribute to Prof. Stig Lundqvist"--Page vii.

Includes bibliographical references.

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Biological physics: An overview / Hans Frauenfelder -- Fluctuations and relaxations in proteins / Fritz G. Parak -- Qualitative methods in immunological modelling / F.W. Wiegel -- Protein folding: Physics on products of evolution / Nobuhiro Go -- Movements of molecular motors / Reinhard Lipowsky -- Ligand migration and binding in myoglobin mutant L29W / G. Ulrich Nienhaus [and others] -- The polymer translocation and barrier crossing / Wokyung Sung -- Long range interaction between protein complexes in DNA -- Controls replication and cell cycle progression: The double helix and microtubules behave like elastically braced strings / L. Matsson -- From the biochemistry of tubulin to the biophysics of microtubules / J.A. Brown and J.A. Tuszynski -- Path integral approach to reaction in complex environment: A bottleneck problem / V. Sa-yakanit and S. Boribarn -- Pulsed radiobiology: Possibilities and perspectives / V.A. Gribkov -- Nonlinear approach in DNA science / L.V. Yakushevich -- Strategies to study distribution and function of minigenes in microorganisms / Gabriel Guarneros [and others] -- Fractional Brownian motion: Theory and application to DNA walk / S.C. Lim and S.V. Muniandy -- Myoglobin -- The smallest chemical reactor / H. Frauenfelder and B.H. McMahon -- Observing conformational changes of individual RNA molecules using confocal microscopy / G. Ulrich Nienhaus [and others] -- Path integral approach to a single polymer chain with excluded volume effect / V. Sa-yakanit, C. Kunsombat and O. Niamploy -- DNA and microtubules as vortex-strings in superconductor-like dynamics / L. Matsson -- Theory of stretching individual polynucleotide molecule / Yang Zhang, Haijun Zhou and Zhong-Can Ou-Yang -- The propagation of electronic excitation in molecular aggregates / John S. Briggs.

Like inanimate matter, biological matter is condensed, though it may be more complex. However, a living cell is a chemically open system with biological functions that are often a nonstationary, nonlinear type of collective phenomena driven by chemical reactants, e.g. ATP, GTP, ligands and receptors. The living cell and many of its subsystems are hence lyotropic systems, depending on various reactant concentrations rather than the temperature. Nonlocal and local correlations of the interacting molecules become the prerequisites for signal transduction. This book constitutes the proceedings of the workshop entitled "Biological Physics 2000."

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