The preoccupations of twenty-first-century biology / David Baltimore -- The world as physics, mathematics and nothing else / Alexander Varshavsky -- Physical biology: 4D Visualization of complexity / Ahmed H. Zewail -- Revolutionary developments from atomic to extended structural imaging / John Meurig Thomas -- Physical biology at the crossroads / Carlos J. Bustamante -- The challenge of quasi-regular structures in biology / Roger D. Kornberg -- The future of biological X-ray analysis / Douglas C. Rees -- Reinterpreting the genetic code: implications for macromolecular design, evolution and analysis / David A. Tirrell -- Designing ligands to bind tightly to proteins / George M. Whitesides [and others] -- Biology by the numbers / Rob Phillips -- Eppur si muove / Michele Parrinello -- Protein folding and beyond: energy landscapes and the organization of living matter in time and space / Peter G. Wolynes. Protein folding and misfolding: from atoms to organisms / Christopher M. Dobson -- A systems approach to medicine will transform healthcare / Leroy Hood -- The neurobiology of consciousness / Christof Koch and Florian Mormann -- Computer-aided drug discovery: physics-based simulations from the molecular to the cellular level / J. Andrew McCammon -- Precision measurements in biology / Stephen R. Quake -- Potassium channels and the atomic basis of selective ion conduction / Roderick MacKinnon -- The 2007 Welch Award Papers. Symmetry breaking, delocalization and dynamics in electron transfer systems / Noel S. Hush ; The initial value representation of semiclassical theory: a practical way for adding quantum effects to classical molecular dynamics simulations of complex molecular systems / William H. Miller.

from atoms to medicine