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 Spatial Structure: 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.