This useful volume contains the contributions from the keynote speakers of the BIOMAT 2006 symposium as well as selected contributions in the areas of mathematical biology, biological physics, biophysics and bioinformatics. It contains new results, contributions and comprehensive reviews to the mathematical modeling of infectious diseases such as HIV, tuberculosis and hepatitis B. Mathematical models for physiological disorders including tumors, aneurysms and metabolic diseases are discussed and analyzed.

This book also contains original contributions to de novo protein structure prediction and multi-objective optimization techniques applied to protein tertiary structure prediction. DNA evolutionary issues, stem cell biology, dynamics of biologic membranes, reaction–diffusion mechanisms, population dynamics, and bioeconomics are covered and discussed throughout this book.

Contents:

• Cell Dynamics:
• Systems Stem Cell Biology (I Roeder)
• Emergence of a Collective Steady State and Symmetry Breaking in Systems of Two Identical Cells (R Dilão)
• Modelling Infectious Diseases:
• HIV Epidemiology and the Impact of Nonsterilizing Vaccines (R Ribeiro et al.)
• Dynamics of Tuberculosis Under Dots Strategy (P D Gomes et al.)
• Modelling Physiological Disorders:
• Linear Feedback Control for a Mathematical Model of Tumor Growth (J Silveira et al.)
• Mathematical Prediction of High-Energy Metabolite Gradients in Mammalian Cells (R Mejia & R Lynch)
• DNA and Proteins:
• Ideal Protein Forms and Their Application to De-Novo Structure Prediction (W R Taylor et al.)
• Multi-Objective Evolutionary Approach to Ab Initio Protein Tertiary Structure Prediction (T W de Lima et al.)
• Population Dynamics:
• A Stage-Structured Finite Element Model for the Population Dynamics of Two Intertidal Barnacles with Interspecific Competition (A P R Doce et al.)
• Advances in a Theory of Impulsive Differential Equations at Impulse-Dependent Times, with Applications to Bio-Economics (F Córdova-Lepe)
• and other papers