ISBN: 3-540-66245-6
TITLE: Statistical Mechanics of Biocomplexity
AUTHOR: Reguera, D.; Vilar, J.M.G.; Rubi, J.M. (Eds.)
TOC:

From Membranes to Membrane Machines
R. Lipowsky 1
'Sausage-String' Patterns in Blood Vessels at High Blood Pressures
P. Alstrm, V.M. Eguluz, F. Gustafsson, and N.-H. Holstein-Rathlou 24
Phase Transitions in Mesoscopic Spherical Membranes
M.V. Voinova 38
Modeling Microtubule Oscillations
E. Jobs, D.E. Wolf, and H. Flyvbjerg 46
Designing RNA Folding Cooperativity
E. Tstesen, S.-J. Chen, and K.A. Dill 56
Scaling Laws for Protein Folding
W. Wenzel and K. Hamacher 62
Self-Organizing Networks of Molecular Machines in Allosterically Regulated Enzymic Reactions
A.S. Mikhailov, P. Stange, D.H. Zanette, and B. Hess 72
Coupled Brownian Motors
C. Van den Broeck, P. Reimann, R. Kawai, and P. Hnggi 93
On the Role of Molecular Machines in the Origin of the Genetic Code
G. Martnez-Mekler, M. Aldana, and G. Cocho 112
Population Dynamics and Non-Hermitian Localization
K.A. Dahmen, D.R. Nelson, and N.M. Shnerb 124
Collective Motion
A. Czirk and T. Vicsek 152
A Population Dynamics Approach to Biological Aging
R.M.C. de Almeida 165
Small-World Networks
S. Strogatz 172
Extended Mean-Field Theory for Networks of Spiking Neurons
D.J. Amit 173
Pattern Formation in the Developing Visual Cortex: Topological Defects, Their Generation, Motion, and Annihilation
F. Wolf and T. Geisel 174
Complex Spiking Behavior from Noise-Driven Neuron Interaction
R. Stoop 194
A New Nonlinear Model for Pitch Perception
J.H.E. Cartwright, D.L. Gonzlez, and O. Piro 205
Statistical Mechanics of Network Models of Macroevolution and Extinction
R.V. Sol 217
Exact Analytical Results in a Simple Model of Self-Organized Biological Evolution
Yu.M. Pis'mak 251
Transition to Chaos in Models of Genetic Networks
C. Hill, B. Sawhill, S. Kauffman, and L. Glass 261
Appendix I Contributions Presented as Posters
Fluid Membranes: Two-Dimensional Systems with "Live" Geometry
L. Miao, P.L. Hansen, and J.H. Ipsen 277
A Model for Mixed Surfactant Vesicles
D. Duque, P. Tarazona, and E. Chacn 278
A Novel Monte Carlo Procedure for Protein Design
A. Irbck, C. Peterson, F. Potthast, and E. Sandelin 279
Folding and Aggregation of Designed Proteins
R.A. Broglia, G. Tiana, S. Pasquali, H.E. Roman, and E. Vigezzi 280
Swollen-Collapsed Transition in Random Hetero-polymers
A. Trovato, J. van Mourik, and A. Maritan 281
Statistical Mechanics of Double-Stranded Semi-flexible Polymers
T.B. Liverpool, R. Golestanian, and K. Kremer 282
Casimir Forces in Polymer Liquid Crystals
J. Dobnikar and R. Podgornik 283
Interaction of Me^2+ Ions with Poly I in Conformation of Four-Stranded Helix
M.V. Degtyar, V.A. Sorokin, V.A. Valeev, G.O. Gladchenko, I.V. Sysa, and Y.P. Blagoi 284
Decomposition of DNA Complexity
R. Roman-Roldan, P.A. Bernaola-Galvan, and J.L. Oliver 285
Transport of Markers and the Dynamic Phase Transition in a Stochastic Cellular Automaton
B. Tadic 286
Algorithmic Complexity of Thermal Ratchet Motion
J.R. Snchez, F. Family, and C.M. Arizmendi 287
Mesoscopic Transport of Structured Systems in Periodic Potentials: a Plausible Modelization for Motor Molecules
S. Cilia, F. Falo, and L.M. Flora 288
Efficiency of Brownian Motors
B.J. de Cisneros Bailly-Bailliere 289
Collective Self-propelled Motion in 3D
A. Czirk, M. Vicsek, and T. Vicsek 290
Concentric Rings in Bacterial Colonies: Patterning and Differentiation
I. Rfols, J. Wakita, T. Matsuyama, and M. Matsushita 291
Spatio-temporal Patterns in Bacterial Colonies
C.E. Auguet, I.R. Cantalapiedra, A.M. Lacasta, A. Pearanda, and L. Ramrez-Piscina 292
Stochastic Pattern Formation with Competing Phases
M.T. Batchelor, B.I. Henry, and S.D. Watt 293
Scaling and Complexity in Insect Populations
M.A.P.Gomes, G.L.Vasconcelos, S.K.Adhikari, I.J.Tsang, and I.R.Tsang 294
Formation of the Interspecies Interaction in the Process of Ecosystem Evolution
O.V. Kirillova 295
A Cellular Automaton Model for Species Formation in Simple Ecosystems
F. Bagnoli and M. Bezzi 296
The CA3 Hippocampal Region as an Autoassociative Memory: Quantitative Measures of Performance
M. Maravall 297
Storage Capacity and Information Processing in Multi-modular Cortical Recurrent Networks
A. Renart, N. Parga, and E.T. Rolls 298
Fast Collective Oscillations in Neural Networks
N. Brunel and V. Hakim 299
Mutual Synchronisation in Molecular Enzymic Networks
P. Stange, A.S. Mikhailov, and B. Hess 300
Mutual Information of 3-State Attractor Neural Networks
D. Dominguez, D. Boll, and S. Amari 301
Kinetics of the Periodically Driven FitzHugh-Nagumo Model
T. Alarcn, A. Prez-Madrid, and J.M. Rub 302
Deterministic Resonance on Noisy Fitzhugh-Nagumo Neuron Models
S. Ripoll Massans and C.J. Prez Vicente 303
Autonomous Stochastic Resonance as a Function of the Correlation Time in Simple Biological Models
J.L. Cabrera, J. Gorronogoitia, and F.J. de la Rubia 304
Genetic Algorithms, Evolutionary Computation and Biological Neural Networks
A.V. Adamopoulos, S.D. Likothanassis, and E.F. Georgopoulos 305
A Statitical Mechanics Approach to Modelling the Dynamics of Genetic Algorithms
A. Rogers 306
Soft Glassy Materials: Rheology and Aging
S. Fielding, P. Sollich, M.E. Gates 307
Solvable Dynamics in a System of Interacting Random Tops
F. Ritort 308
Thermodynamics of Glasses and Black Holes
Th.M. Nieuwenhuizen 309
Statistical Mechanics of Polarons and Double Well Potentials
M. Zoli 310
Appendix II List of Participants
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