All papers have been peer-reviewed. The Conference was a program of invited lectures and selected contributed papers of interest to academic communities, educators and students both at graduate and undergraduate levels. Topics are centered on information processing and coding in the brain and in neuronal systems, on quantitative approaches to ecology and population dynamics, and on bioinformatics. Some talks also focus on current problems in various other areas of applications of mathematics and computational tools to the life sciences.

Scientific Works by Wiener and Levy after Brown	p. 1
Philosophical Approaches towards Sciences of Life in Early Cybernetics	p. 11
Darwin and His Mathematical Inspirations	p. 18
The Brain: What is Critical About It?	p. 28
Mathematical Modeling of Spreading Cortical Depression: Spiral and Reverberating Waves	p. 46
Computational Approach to Schizophrenia: Disconnection Syndrome and Dynamical Pharmacology	p. 65
A Framework for Modeling Competitive and Cooperative Computation in Retinal Processing	p. 88
A Model for the Propagation of Action Potentials in Nonuniform Axons	p. 98
A Design Method for Analog and Digital Silicon Neurons - Mathematical-Model-Based Method	p. 113
A Model for Axon Guidance: Sensing, Transduction and Movement	p. 129
The Adaptation of the Moth Pheromone Receptor Neuron to Its Natural Stimulus	p. 147
Interaction and Integration of Synaptic Activity on Dendritic Tree	p. 162
Comparison of Statistical Methods for Estimation of the Input Parameters in the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Neuronal Model from Fist-Passage Times Data	p. 171
Overdispersion in the Place Cell Discharge - Stochastic Modelling and Inference	p. 186
A Stochastic Model for Infective Events in Operating Room Caused by Air Contamination	p. 198
Flow Rate Driven by Peristaltic Movement in Plasmodial Tube of Physarum Polycephalum	p. 210
On the Influence of Quorum Sensing in the Competition between Bacteria and Immune System of Invertebrates	p. 215
Two Types of Coexistence in Cross-Feeding Microbial Consortia	p. 233
Optimization Techniques in Computing Good Quality Solutions to Sequence Alignment Problems	p. 261
Combining Experimental Evidences from Replicates and Nearby Species Data for Annotating Novel Genomes	p. 277
Analysis and Comparision of Information Theory-Based Distances for Genomic Strings	p. 292
Modelling of 3D Early Blood Vessel Formation: Simulations and Morphological Analysis	p. 311
Learning Decision Trees over Erasing Pattern Languages	p. 328
Some Applications of Hida Distributions to Biology	p. 344
Remembering a Friend	p. 352
Author Index	p. 371
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