The Amyloid Phenomenon and Its Significance / Christopher M Dobson -- Amyloid Structures at the Atomic Level: Insights from Crystallography / Michael R Sawaya, David Eisenberg -- What Does Solid-State NMR Tell Us about Amyloid Structures? / Wolfgang Hoyer, Henrike Heise -- From Molecular to Supramolecular Amyloid Structures: Contributions from Fiber Diffraction and Electron Microscopy / Kyle L Morris, Louise C Serpell -- Structures of Aggregating Species by Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering / Cristiano L P Oliveira, Jan Skov Pedersen -- Structural and Compositional Information about Pre-Amyloid Oligomers / Niels Zijlstra, Vinod Subramaniam -- The Oligomer Species: Mechanistics and Biochemistry / Massimo Stefani -- Pathways of Amyloid Formation / Francesco Bemporad, Fabrizio Chiti -- Sequence-Based Prediction of Protein Behavior / Gian Gaetano Tartaglia, Michele Vendruscolo -- The Kinetics and Mechanisms of Amyloid Formation / Samuel I A Cohen, Michele Vendruscolo, Christopher M Dobson, Tuomas P J Knowles -- Fluorescence Spectroscopy as a Tool to Characterize Amyloid Oligomers and Fibrils / Per Hammarström, Mikael Lindgren, K Peter R Nilsson -- Animal Models of Amyloid Diseases / Stanislav Ott, Damian C Crowther -- The Role of Aß in Alzheimer's Disease / Timothy M Ryan, Blaine R Roberts, Victor A Streltsov, Stewart D Nuttall, Colin L Masters -- Experimental Approaches to Inducing Amyloid Aggregates / Lise Giehm, Daniel Otzen -- Fibrillar Polymorphism / Marcus Fändrich, Melanie Wulff, Jesper Sndergaard Pedersen, Daniel Otzen -- Inhibitors of Amyloid and Oligomer Formation / Nikolai Lorenzen, Erich E Wanker, Daniel Otzen -- Development of Therapeutic Strategies for the Transthyretin Amyloidoses / Colleen Fearns, Stephen Connelly, Evan T Powers, Jeffery W Kelly -- Hormone Amyloids in Sickness and in Health / Carolin Seuring, Nadezhda Nespovitaya, Jonas Rutishauser, Martin Spiess, Roland Riek -- Functional Amyloids in Bacteria / Morten S Dueholm, Per Halkjaer Nielsen, Matthew Chapman, Daniel Otzen -- Structural Properties and Applications of Self-Assembling Peptides / Zhongli Luo, Shuguang Zhang -- Harnessing the Self-Assembling Properties of Proteins in Spider Silk and Lung Surfactant / Jan Johansson.

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