Elastic Growth Models -- A Model of Pattern Coupled to Form in Metazoans -- Mathematical Modeling of HIV-1 Infection and Drug Therapy -- Overcoming the Key Challenges in De Novo Protein Design: Enhancing Computational Efficiency and Incorporating True Backbone Flexibility -- The Improved Heuristic for Consistent Biclustering Problems -- The Steiner Tree Problem and Its Application to the Modelling of Biomolecular Structures -- Phenotypic Switching and Mutation in the Presence of a Biocide: No Replication of Phenotypic Variant -- From Spatial Pattern in the Distribution and Abundance of Species to a Unified Theory of Ecology: The Role of Maximum Entropy Methods -- Protein Structure and Its Folding Rate.