Protein misassembly: macromolecular crowding and molecular chaperones / R. John Ellis -- The cellular "networking" of mammalian HSP27 and its functions in the control of protein folding, redox state and apoptosis / André-Patrick Arrigo -- Molecular interaction network of the HSP90 chaperone system / Rongmin Zhao and Walid A. Houry -- Organization of the functions and components of the endoplasmic reticulum / Yuichiro Shimizu and Linda M. Hendershot -- Molecular crime and cellular punishment: active detoxification of misfolded and aggregated proteins in the cell by the chaperone and protease networks / Marie-Pierre Hinault and Pierre Goloubinoff -- Chaperones as parts of cellular networks / Peter Csermely, Csaba Söti and Gregory L. Blatch -- Chaperones as parts of organelle networks / György Szabadkai and Rosario Rizzuto -- Heat shock factor 1 as a coordinator of stress and developmental pathways / Julius Anckar and Lea Sistonen -- Chaperone regulation of the heat shock protein response / Richard Voellmy and Frank Boellmann -- Mechanisms of activation and regulation of the heat shock-sensitive signaling pathways / Sébastien Ian Nadeau and Jacques Landry -- Membrane-regulated stress response: a theoretical and practical approach / László Vígh [and others] -- Beyond the lipid hypothesis: mechanisms underlying phenotypic plasticity in inducible cold tolerance / Scott A.L. Hayward [and others] -- Trehalose as a "chemical chaperone:" fact and fantasy / John H. Crowe -- Chaperones as part of immune networks / Zoltán Prohászka -- The stress of misfolded proteins: C. elegans models for neurodegenerative disease and aging / Heather R. Brignull, James F. Morley and Richard I. Morimoto -- HSP90 and developmental networks / Suzannah Rutherford, Jennifer R. Knapp and Peter Csermely.