Designed as a practical reference for bio-mathematicians and biologists in their attempts to quantify the motions of cells and organisms, this volume discusses movement paths and searching behaviour, cellular motion and shape changing, microtubuli and cilia motion, and kinesis and/or taxis.

An interdisciplinary study explaining the dynamics underlying biological motion - one of the most obvious expressions of self-organization. Designed for a broad audience from bioscientists to applied mathematicians, this book considers possible synergetic mechanisms of interaction and cooperation on different microscopic levels.

Polymer and cell dynamics play an important role in processes like tumor growth, metastasis, embryogenesis, immune reactions and regeneration. Based on an international workshop on numerical simulations of polymer and cell dynamics in Bad Honnef (Germany) in 2000, this volume provides an overview of the relevant mathematical and numerical methods, their applications and limits. Polymer and Cell Dynamics will be of interest to scientists and advanced undergraduates.

'Biology' was used as a term to describe 'the science of living nature' for the first time around the year 1800. It was therefore not self-evident that the University of Bonn would offer a lecture on biology in 1818-the year of its founding. For the first time ever, Wolfgang Alt and Klaus Peter Sauer submit a detailed and fully illustrated history of ideas regarding biological research and teaching at the University of Bonn. From zoology through botany and genetics to the development of cell biology and microbiology, they provide an insight into the local history of a newly evolving and now...