Microbial life in permanently cold soils.- Lake ice microbial communities in alpine and antarctic lakes.- Physiology of cold-adapted microorganisms.- Ecological aspects of cold-adapted plants with a special emphasis on environmental control of cold hardening and dehardening.- Plant responses to low temperature: signaling pathways involved in plant acclimation.- Ice nucleation and deep supercooling in plants: new insights using infrared thermography.- Modeling sequential responses of plant cells to freezing and thawing.- Cold adaptations in terrestrial invertebrates.- Nival invertebrate animals in the East Alps: a faunistic overview.- High alpine streams: cold habitats for insect larvae.- Ecophysiological and morphological features of glacier-dwelling Collembola.- Ecological features of antarctic fishes.- Structure and function of hemoglobins from antarctic organisms: the search for correlations with adaptive evolution.- Cold enzymes: a hot topic.- Psychrophilic enzymes: insights into cold adaptation and catalysis from the first high resolution crystal structures.- Temperature adaptation in enzymes of antarctic fishes.- Aspartate aminotransferase from Moraxella TAC125: an unusual psychrophilic enzyme.- Genes and enzymes involved in arginine and pyrimidine biosynthesis in psychrophilic Vibrio strains from the deep sea.- Plasmids from antarctic bacteria.- Molecular responses in cold-adapted plants.- Gene expression and cold hardiness in animals.