New trends in the physics and mechanics of biological systems : École de physique des Houches, session XCII, 6-31 July 2009

1. Locomotion at Low Reynolds number 2. Surface Tension 3. Dynamics of Complex Bio-Fluids 4. Active Fluids and Gels 5. Elasticity and Dynamics of Cytoskeletal Filaments and their Networks 6. Morphoelasticity - A theory of elastic growth 7. Mechanics of Tumour Growth: Multiphase Models, Adhesion, and Evolving Configurations 8. Microbial mechanics: the growth and form of filamentary micro-organism 9. The physics of the cell membrane 10. Modeling Plant Morphogenesis and Growth 11. How cell mechanics shapes embryos