Preface\nClaudio O. Gualerzi Structure and organization of the bacterial chromosome\nRemus T. Dame \'Ultrastructure and organization of bacterial chromosomes\' William Margolin \'Imaging the bacterial nucleoid\' Peter L. Graumann \'The chromosome segregation machinery in bacteria\' Finbarr Hayes and Daniela Barillà \'Extrachromosomal components of the nucleoid: recent developments in deciphering the molecular basis of plasmid segregation\' Conrad Woldringh \'Nucleoid structure and segregation\' Suckjoon Jun \'Physics of nucleoid structure and chromosome segregation\' N. Patrick Higgins, Betty M. Booker and Dipankar Manna \'Molecular structure and dynamics of bacterial nucleoids\' Ümit Pul and Rolf Wagner \'Nucleoid-associated proteins: structural properties\' Hanne Ingmer \'Dps and bacterial chromatin\' Chromatin organization in archaea and eukaryotes Stephen D. Bell & Malcolm F. White \'Archaeal chromatin organization\' Andrew Travers and Georgi Muskhelishvili \'The topology and organization of eukaryotic chromatin\' Regulation by nucleoid-associated proteins Charles J. Dorman \'Bacterial chromatin and gene regulation\' William W. Navarre \'H-NS as a defense system\' Georgi Muskhelishvili and Andrew Travers \'FIS and nucleoid dynamics upon exit from lag phase\' Stacey N. Peterson and Norbert O. Reich \'LRP: a nucleoid-associated protein with gene regulatory function\' Amalia Muñoz, Marc Valls and Víctor de Lorenzo \'Extreme DNA bending: molecular basis of the regulatory breadth of IHF\' Dale E. A. Lewis, Sang Jun Lee and Sankar Adhya \'Role of HU in regulation of galpromoters\' Douglas F. Browning, David C. Grainger, Meng Xu and Stephen J.W. Busby \'Transcriptional regulation by nucleoid-associated proteins at complex promoters in Escherichia coli\'.