Statistical Mechanics of Biocomplexity

From Membranes to Membrane Machines.- 'Sausage-String' Patterns in Blood Vessels at High Blood Pressures.- Phase Transitions in Mesoscopic Spherical Membranes.- Modeling Microtubule Oscillations.- Designing RNA Folding Cooperativity.- Scaling Laws for Protein Folding.- Self-Organizing Networks of Molecular Machines in Allosterically Regulated Enzymic Reactions.- Coupled Brownian Motors.- On the Role of Molecular Machines in the Origin of the Genetic Code.- Population Dynamics and Non-Hermitian Localization.- A Population Dynamics Approach to Biological Aging.- Small-World Networks.- Extended Mean-Field Theory for Networks of Spiking Neurons.- Pattern Formation in the Developing Visual Cortex: Topological Defects, Their Generation, Motion, and Annihilation.- Complex Spiking Behavior From Noise-Driven Neuron Interaction.- A New Nonlinear Model for Pitch Perception.- Statistical Mechanics of Network Models of Macroevolution and Extinction.- Exact Analytical Result in a Simple Model of Self-Organized Biological Evolution.- Transition to Chaos in Models of Genetic Networks.- Appendix I Contributions Presented as Poster.- Fluid Membranes: Two-dimensional Systems with 'Live' Geometry.- A Model for Mixed Surfactant Vesicles.- A Novel Monte-Carlo Procedure for Protein Design.- Folding and Aggregation of Designed Proteins.- Swollen-Collapsed Transition in Random Hetero-polymers.- Statistical Mechanics of Double-Stranded Semi-flexible Polymers.- Casimir Forces ....- Interaction of Me(2+) Ions with Poly I in Conformation of Four-Stranded Helix.- Decomposition of DNA Complexity.- Transport of Markers and the Dynamic Phase ....- Algorithmic Complexity of Thermal Ratchet Motion.- Mesoscopic Transport of Structured Systems....- Efficiency of Brownian Motors.- Collective Self-Propelled Motion in 3D.- Concentric Rings in Bacterial Colonies: Patterning and Differentiation.- Spatio-Temporal Patterns in Bacterial colonies.- Stochastic Pattern Formation ....- Scaling and Complexitiy in