Frontiers in Mathematical Biology

I. Frontiers in Cell and Molecular Biology.- Reflections on Mathematical Contributions to Understanding the Molecular Basis of Life From 1970 to the 21 st Century.- Genomes, Maps and Sequences.- Cell Protrusions.- Cell Motion and Orientation: Theories of Elementary Behavior Between Environmental Stimulation and Autopoietic Regulation.- II. Frontiers in Organismal Biology.- Pattern Formation in Tissue Interaction Models.- Toward Artificial Competence.- Norbert Wiener's Brain Waves.- Puzzles About Excitable Media and Sudden Death.- Immune Networks and Immune Responses.- III. Frontiers in Evolutionary Biology.- Evolution of Gene Families: A Clue to Some Problems of Neo-Darwinism.- The Changing Role of Population Genetics Theory.- Some Advantages and Disadvantages of Recombination.- The Morphometric Synthesis: A Brief Intellectual History.- Behavioral Ecology, Epidemiology and Population Genetics: The Undiscovered Country.- IV. Frontiers in Population Ecology.- Stochastic Demography and Life Histories.- On the Reciprocal Relationship Between Life Histories and Population Dynamics.- Structured Population Dynamics.- Modelling Social Animal Aggregations.- Spatial Chaos and its Role in Ecology and Evolution.- V Frontiers in Community and Ecosystem Ecology.- Speculations on the Future of Food Webs.- Lorenzo Camerano's Contribution to Early Food Web Theory.- On the Equilibrium of Living Beings by Means of Reciprocal Destruction.- Frontiers in Ecosystem Science.- Individual-Oriented Approaches to Modeling Ecological Populations and Communities.- A Metaphysiological Approach to Modeling Ecological Populations and Communities.- The Trophodynamics of Whole Ecological Communities.- Modeling Contact Structures in Biology.- VI. Frontiers in Applied Biology.- Conservation and SpatialStructure: Theoretical Approaches.- A Thousand and One Epidemic Models.- Uncertainty and Fisheries Management.- Ecological Risk Assessment in Aquatic Populations and Communities: The Next Generation.- VII. Mathematical Challenges.- Health Information in Developing Countries.- What Everyone Should Know About the Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction.- Avoiding Chaos.- Model Building as an Inverse Problem in Biomathematics.- Some Remarks on Estimation Techniques for Size-Structured Population Models.