Knowing the natural and anthropic variations a water body went through defines the best ways for maintaining or restoring an ecosystem.

Science:

• Recent Advances in Symbiosis Research: Integrative Approaches, hosted by M. Pilar Francino and Mónica Medina

• Intellectual Disabilities in Down Syndrome from Birth and throughout Life: Assessment and Treatment, hosted by Marie-Claude Potier and Roger H. Reeves

• ROS Regulation during Plant Abiotic Stress Responses, hosted by Zhulong Chan, Chun-Peng Song, Woe Yeon Kim and Ken Yokawa

• International Plant Proteomics Organization (INPPO) World Congress 2014, hosted by Joshua L. Heazlewood, Jesús V. Jorrín-Novo, Ganesh Kumar Agrawal, Silvia Mazzuca and Sabine Lüthje

• The Functional Organization of the Auditory System, hosted by Monica Muñoz-Lopez and Yukiko Kikuchi

• Mitochondria in Skeletal Muscle Health, Aging and Diseases, hosted by Gilles Gouspillou and Russell T. Hepple

• Flow and Transformations in Porous Media, hosted by Renaud Toussaint, Bjørnar Sandnes, Daniel Koehn, Piotr Szymczak and Einat Aharonov

• Using Paleolimnology for Lake Restoration and Management, hosted by Isabelle Larocque-Tobler

• Virtual Plants: Modeling Plant Architecture in Changing Environments, hosted by Katrin Kahlen and Hartmut Stützel

• Interoception, Contemplative Practice, and Health, hosted by Norman Farb, Catherine Kerr, Wolf E. Mehling and Olga Pollatos

• Filamentous Bacteriophage in Bio/Nano/Technology, Bacterial Pathogenesis and Ecology, hosted by Jasna Rakonjac, Bhabatosh Das and Ratmir Derda

• Evolution of Organismal Form: From Regulatory Interactions to Developmental Processes and Biological Patterns, hosted by Sylvain Marcellini and Hector Escriva

• Music and Disorders of Consciousness: Emerging Research, Practice and Theory, hosted by Wendy L. Magee, Barbara Tillmann, Fabien Perrin and Caroline Schnakers

• Bifidobacteria and Their Role in the Human Gut Microbiota, hosted by Francesca Turroni, David Berry and Marco Ventura

• When (and How) Is Theory of Mind Useful? Evidence from Life-Span Research, hosted by Francesca Baglio and Antonella Marchetti

• Muscle-Tendon-Innervation Unit: Degeneration and Aging – Pathophysiological and Regeneration Mechanisms, hosted by Luciano Merlini, Cesare Faldini and Paolo Bonaldo

• Molecular Mechanisms and Physiological Significance of Organelle Interactions and Cooperation, hosted by Michael Schrader and Markus Islinger

US-Mexico border region area has unique social, demographic and policy forces at work that shape the health of its residents.

Health:

• Emergent Public Health Issues in the US-Mexico Border Region, hosted by Cecilia Ballesteros Rosales, Scott Carter Carvajal and Jill Eileen Guernsey De Zapien

• Bone Marrow T Cells at the Center Stage in Immunological Memory, hosted by Francesca Di Rosa and Tania H. Watts

• HLA-G-mediated Immune Tolerance: Past and New Outlooks, hosted by Silvia Gregori and Joel LeMaoult