Table of Contents

Fluorescence Spectroscopy: Basics and Advanced Approaches.- Basics of Fluorescence Spectroscopy in Biosciences.- Pulse and Phase Fluorometries: An Objective Comparison.- Non-Exponential Fluorescence of Electronically Coupled Donors Contains Distance Information.- Fluorescence Nanotomography: Recent Progress, Constraints and Opportunities.- Solvent Relaxation as a Tool for Probing Micro-Polarity and -Fluidity.- Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Microscopy: Applications in Biophysics.- Single Molecule Spectroscopy: Basics and Applications.- Application of Fluorescence Spectroscopy to Biological Membranes.- Raft Microdomains in Model Membranes as Revealed by Fluorescence Quenching.- The Lateral Structure of Lipid Membranes as Seen by Fluorescence Microscopy.- Application of Fluorescence Spectroscopy to Protein Studies.- Protein Dynamics and Protein Folding Dynamics Revealed by Time-Resolved Fluorescence.- Time-Resolved Fluorescence and Two-Photon FCS Investigation of the Interaction of HIV-1 Nucleocapsid Protein with Hairpin Loop Oligonucleotides.- Application of Fluorescence Spectroscopy to DNA and Drug Delivery.- Fluorescence Techniques in Non-Viral Gene Therapy.- Fluorescence Applications in Targeted Drug Delivery.- Fluorescence Spectroscopy in cells: FCS and Quantum Dots.- Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy in Cell Biology.- Fluorescent Quantum Dots: Properties and Applications.- Heat Stress of Cancer Cells: Fluorescence Imaging of Structural Changes with Quantum Dots 605 and Alexa 488.