Physics of Biological Systems: From Molecules to Species

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Series: Lecture Notes in Physics 480

ISBN: 3540624759, 9783540624752

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Henrik Flyvbjerg, Ole G. Mouritsen (auth.), Henrik Flyvbjerg, John Hertz, Mogens H. Jensen, Ole G. Mouritsen, Kim Sneppen (eds.)3540624759, 9783540624752

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

Table of contents :
Introduction: Physics – and the Physics of Biological Systems….Pages 1-8
Microchips for Sorting DNA….Pages 11-26
The Complexity of Proteins….Pages 29-60
The Energy Landscape Theory of Protein Folding….Pages 61-79
From Interatomic Interactions to Protein Structure….Pages 80-116
Probing Protein Motion Through Temperature Echoes….Pages 117-152
Motor Proteins….Pages 155-170
Shapes and Fluctuations in Membranes….Pages 171-188
Bending Energy Concept of Vesicle and Cell Shapes and Shape Transitions….Pages 189-212
Microtubule Dynamics….Pages 213-230
A Physicist’s Introduction to Brains and Neurons….Pages 233-251
Statistical Mechanics and Sensory Signal Processing….Pages 252-280
Molecular Evolutionary Biology….Pages 283-306
Smart Bacterial Colonies….Pages 307-324
Complementarity of Physics, Biology and Geometry in the Dynamics of Swimming Micro-Organisms….Pages 325-340
Mass Extinctions vs. Uniformitarianism in Biological Evolution….Pages 341-356

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