Local and global spatial coupling mechanisms form the basis of transport processes that are of fundamental importance for the occurrence and the dynamic evolution of patterns on a mesoscopic and macroscopic scale. The present volume deals with these concepts and investigates applications in the fields of biophysics and chemistry.

Pattern formation in the developing visual cortex.- The molecular motor actin-myosin on a substrate.- Force and motion generation of molecular motors: A generic description.- Reaction-diffusion waves of reversible actin filament assembly drive cell oscillations and locomotion.- Vesicle dynamics in chemotaxis, haptotaxis, and under shear flow.- Chemotaxis and aggregation in the cellular slime mould.- Calcium waves in rat cardiac myocytes underlie the principles of self-organization in excitable media.- Inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate induced calcium waves.- Electrophoretic mobility of charged spheres.- Complex fluids under shear: Block copolymers.- Coherent intramolecular dynamics in populations of allosteric enzymes.- Routes to chaos in the peroxidase-oxidase reaction.- Determination of fokker-planck equations from experimental data sets of complex systems.- The randomly driven ising ferromagnet.- Wave propagation in excitable media with fast inhibitor diffusion.- Mechanisms of spiral breakup in chemical and biological reaction-diffusion models.- Experimental realization and control of chemical turing-like patterns.- Reaction-diffusion patterns: From observations in halogene chemistry to a test for implication in mitosis.