I have just completed my first year of graduate school in theoretical physics at the University of California at Santa Barbara. My research with Jean Carlson on biological complexity has focused on proteins, enzymatic networks, and evolutionary models. Guided by analogy with engineering technology, we are trying to elucidate the sensitivities inherent in robust biological systems. Several pieces of the puzzle already exist in isolation: neutral networks in RNA and proteins, gene redundancy and regulation, and metabolic control schemes. I hope to synthesize these areas to better understand the evolution of molecular biology from its earliest moments on earth.

I am also interested in problems at the interface between computational complexity and statistical mechanics.

Home page: http://www.physics.ucsb.edu/~endelman/