The BIOMAT Consortium / BIOMAT Institute of Advanced Studies of Biosystems, a non-profit association of members of Universities and Research Institutions in Brazil and abroad has created interdisciplinary conferences since the year 2001. These BIOMAT Symposia - BIOMAT International Symposium on Mathematical and Computational Biology - are adequate for creating opportunities to assemble together professionals from several fields, from pure mathematicians and theoretical physicists to biologists, biochemists, computer scientists as well as research engineers and physicians. The only link which is supposed to exist among them is the scientific interest in biological phenomena and the mathematical and computational modelling of Biosystems.