Structure and Dynamics of Nucleic Acids Proteins and Membranes

I. Structure of Macromolecules.- Conformational Analysis of Polypeptides and Proteins for the Study of Protein Folding, Molecular Recognition, and Molecular Design.- Conformation of Non-Crystalline Proteins Viewed by NMR.- Structures and Superstructures in Periodical Polynucleotides.- Conformational Peculiarities and Biological Role of Some Nucleotide Sequences.- Multifrequency ESR of an Isotopically Enriched Copper System in the Immobilized Phase: A Monte Carlo Approach.- Neutron Scattering from Agarose Gels.- Non-Empirical Pair Potentials for the Interaction Between Amino Acids.- II. Dynamics of Macromolecules.- Molecular Dynamics of Proteins.- Proton NMR Studies of Protein Dynamics and Folding: Applications of Magnetization Transfer NMR.- Distributions and Fluctuations of Protein Structures Investigated by X-Ray Analysis and Mossbauer Spectroscopy.- Rotational Motions of Tryptophan and Tyrosine Residues in Proteins.- Protein Fluctuations and Hemeprotein Affinity for Ligand.- Cytochrome Oxidase in Energy Transduction.- Proteins and Glasses.- III. Solvation of Macromolecules.- Global Ab Initio Simulations: Study of a Liquid as an Example.- Proton Conductivity of Hydrated Lysozyme Powders, Considered Within the Framework of Percolation Theory.- Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Biomolecules in Water.- Low Frequency Coherent Vibrations of DNA: The Role of the Hydration Shell and Phosphate-Phosphate Interactions.- IV. Components of Larger Systems.- Elasticity, Structure and Dynamics of Cell Plasma Membrane and Biological Functions.- Neuronal Signaling. A Simple Thermodynamic Process Involving Complex Membrane Proteins.- Panel Discussions: Session 1. Understanding Brain Mechanisms and the Challenge of Artificial Intelligence Machines: An Interdisciplinary Approach; Session 2. Sixth Generation Computers: A Sketch.- Physicists Explore Human and Artificial Intelligence.- Recognition Automata Based on Selective Neural Networks.- A Neural Theory of Preattentive Visual Information Processing: Emergent Segmentation, Cooperative-Competitive Computation, and Parallel Memory Storage.- Large-Scale Computations on a Scalar, Vector and Parallel "Supercomputer".