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[1].- 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.- Collective motion.- 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 results in a simple model of self-organized biological evolution.- Transition to chaos in models of genetic networks.