chair: Burkhard Rost (rost@columbia.edu)

Terry Gaasterland (gaasterland@ucsd.edu)
Janet Kelso (kelso@eva.mpg.de)
David Rocke (dmrocke@ucdavis.edu)
Reinhard Schneider (reinhard.schneider@embl.de)

The Executive Committee leads and coordinates efforts in developing an international society to promote computational biology. The Committee’s goals are to set Society policy and procedures, to enable the other committees to meet their responsibilities, to approve staffing decisions, to approve all expenditures over a set amount, and to encourage communication between members.

chair: Tan Tin Wee (tinwee@bic.nus.edu.sg)

Christyne Bliton (acbliton@umich.edu)
Rita Casadio (casadio@biocomp.unibo.it)
Jim Cavalcoli (james.cavalcoli@pfizer.com)
Larry Hunter (Larry.Hunter@uchsc.edu)
Steve Jennings (sfjennings@ualr.edu)
Sandro Jose de Souza (sandro@compbio.ludwig.org.br)
Cheolmin Kim (kimcm@pusan.ac.kr)
Satoru Miyano (miyano@ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp)
Mike Poidinger (mpoiding@medau.jnj.com)
Narayanaswamy Srinivasan (ns@mbu.iisc.ernet.in)
Swapnil Upgian-lawar (spu@andrew.cornell.edu)
A.H.C. van Kampen (a.h.vankampen@amc.uva.nl)
Michael Wise (mwise@cyllene.uwg.edu.au)
Jonathan Wren (jonathan.wren@ou.edu)
Ueng-Cheng Yang (yang@ym.edu.tw)

The mission of the Affiliates & SIGs Committe (ASC) is to foster interactions between the Society and its Affiliated Regional Groups and Special Interest Groups. The ASC examines applications for new regional affiliates and SIGs and establishes the relative procedures. It also examines ways in which both partners (the Society and the groups) can mutually benefit from each other. It is the body to which members of the Affiliated Regional Groups and SIGs can bring particular concerns and make suggestions for new initiatives.

chair: Janet Kelso (kelso@eva.mpg.de)
vice chair: Michal Linial (michal.linial@huji.ac.il)
vice chair: Burkhard Rost (rost@columbia.edu)

Bruce Aronow (bruce.aronow@cchmc.org)
Barbara Bryant (Barb.Bryant@mpi.com)
Søren Brunak (brunak@cbs.dtu.dk)
Michael Eisen (MBEisen@lbl.gov)
David Gilbert (drg@brc.dcs.gla.ac.uk)
Janice Glasgow (janice@cs.queensu.ca)
Steven Leard (sleard@iscb.org)
Thomas Lengauer (lengauer@mpi-sb.mpg.de)
Jill Mesirov (mesirov@broad.mit.edu)
Satoru Miyano (miyano@ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp)
Goran Neshich (neshich@cnptia.embrapa.br)
Shoba Ranganathan (shoba@els.mq.edu.au)
David Rocke (dmrocke@ucdavis.edu)
Hershel Safer (hsafer@alum.mit.edu)
Indra Neil Sarkar (sarkar@amnh.org)
Reinhard Schneider (reinhard.schneider@embl-heidelberg.de)
Hagit Shatkay (shatkay@cs.queensu.ca)
Abdur Sikder (abdur@icsi.berkeley.edu)
David States (dstates@umich.edu)
Olga Troyanskaya (ogt@cs.princeton.edu)
Willy Valdivia Granda (willy.valdivia@orionbiosciences.com)
Alfonso Valencia (valencia@cnio.es)
Liping Wei (weilp@mail.cbi.pku.edu.cn)
The Conferences committee deals with all aspects of the relationship of ISCB to conferences and meetings. This includes, but is not limited to

• The ISCB annual meeting, the International Conference on Intelligent systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB)
  • Selection of organizing committees and sites for ISMBFormulation of policies for ISMB such as constitution of program committee, review process for papers, conference format, sponsorships, etc.
  • Identification and solicitation of funding via grants
  Other ISCB sponsored conferences
  • Formulate policies and make recommendations for ISCB sponsorship of conferences
  • Recommend policies for quid pro quo interactions with sponsored conference
• Outside conferences
  • Identify conferences at which ISCB should be advertised
  • Formulate policies for levels of interaction and criteria for ISCB involvement

chair: Kevin Karplus (Karplus@soe.ucsc.edu)
vice chair: Bruno Gaeta (bgaeta@unsw.edu.au)

Cathy Abbott (cathy.abbott@flinders.edu.au)
Terri Attwood (teresa.k.attwood@manchester.ac.uk)
Harshawardhan Bal (harshbal@perlsource.net)
George Bell (gbell@wi.mit.edu)
Panayiotis Benos (benos@hgen.pitt.edu)
Mark Borodovsky (mark.borodovsky@biology.gatech.edu)
Richard Bruskiewich (r.bruskiewich@cgiar.org)
Betty Cheng, (bcheng23@gmail.com)
Bruno Contrera (contrera@ccg.unam.mx)
Manuel Corpas (manuel.corpas@gmail.com)
Kam Dahlquist (kdahlquist@lmu.edu)
Andrew Dalby (dalby@stats.ox.ac.uk)
Charlotte Deane (deane@stats.ox.ac.uk)
Sorin Draghici (sod@cs.wayne.edu)
Lynda Ellis (lynda@tc.umn.edu)
Scott J. Emrich (semrich@nd.edu)
Joanne Fox (joanne@msl.ubc.ca)
Hongxian He (hongxian.he@usa.dupont.com)
Winston Hide (winhide@sanbi.ac.za)
Richard Hughey (rph@soe.ucsc.edu)
Lakshmanan Iyer (liyer01@tufts.edu)
Steve Jennings (sfjennings@ualr.edu)
A.H.C. van Kampen (a.h.vankampen@amc.uva.nl)
Rachel Karchin (karchin@jhu.edu)
Dmitri Krylov (krylov@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
Anil Kumar (anilcbt@yahoo.com)
Fran Lewitter (lewitter@wi.mit.edu)
Michal Linial (michall@cc.huji.ac.il)
Mark Lohmann (mark.lohmann@uni-koeln.de)
Kathleen Marchal (kathleen.marchal@biw.kuleuven.be)
Hiroshi Mizushima (hmizushi@bioinfo.tmd.ac.jp)
Yves Moreau (moreau@esat.kuleuven.be)
Georgina Moulton (georgina-moulton@manchester.ac.uk)
Murlidharan Nair (mnair@iusb.edu)
Francis Ouellette (francis@bioinformatics.ubc.ca)
Sebastian Pechmann (sp434@cam.ac.uk)
Sandor Pongor (pongor@icgeb.org)
Shoba Ranganathan (srangana@els.mq.edu.au)
Eitan Rubin (Eitan.Rubin@weizmann.ac.il)
Rob Rutherford (robertr@seattleu.edu)
Ilan Samish (samish@sas.upenn.edu)
Clare Sansom (c.sansom@mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk)
Henri Sara (ext-henri.sara@vit.fi)
Alexander Schliep (schliep@molgen.mpg.de)
Cathal Seoighe (Cathal.Seoighe@uct.ac.za)
Libby Shoop (shoop@macalester.edu)
Kimmen Sjolander (kimmen@berkeley.edu)
Saraswathi Sundararajan (saraswathi55@gmail.com)
Martti Tammi (martti.tammi@ki.se)
Tin Wee Tan (bchtantw@nus.edu.sg)
Deanne Taylor (theoriste@gmail.com)
Jean-Francois Tomb (jean-francois.tomb@usa.dupont.com)
Susan Trapp (susan.trapp@uchsc.edu)
Lisa Vawter (Lisa.Vawter@sanofi-aventis.com)
Tan Tin Wee (tinwee@bic.nus.edu.sg)
Victor Weigman (victor@med.unc.edu)
John Wooley (jwooley@sdsc.edu)
Cathy Wu (wuc@georgetown.edu)

The Education Committee promotes worldwide education and training in computational biology as well as serving as a resource and advisor to institutions and industry interested in developing educational programs.

chair: Jean-Francois Tomb (jean-francois.tomb@ usa.dupont.com)

Jack Leunissen (Jack.Leunissen@wur.nl)
Scott Markel (smarkel@accelrys.com)
Jill Mesirov (Mesirov@broad.mit.edu)
David Rocke (dmrocke@ucdavis.edu)
Hershel Safer (hsafer@alum.mit.edu)
Reinhard Schneider (reinhard.schneider@embl.de)
Sylvia Spengler (sjspengler@california.com)
Saraswathi Sundararajan (saraswathi55@gmail.com)
Lisa Vawter (Lisa.Vawter@sanofi-aventis.com)
Victor Weigman (victor_weigman@med.unc.edu)

The Finance Committee develops strategies and programs for revenue generation and guidelines for control of expenses. The Committee assists in developing grant proposals for Society projects and liaises with the Treasurer and all other committees over financial matters.

chair: Reinhard Schneider (Reinhard.schneider@embl.de)

Michael Gribskov (gribskov@purdue.edu)
Dietlind Gerloff (dgerloff@soe.ucsc.edu)
Lawrence Hunter (larry.hunter@uchsc.edu)
Burkhard Rost (rost@columbia.edu)

The Governance Committee develops policies and procedures for matters of how the Society leadership governs itself, including parliamentary procedure, ethics, code of conduct, conflict of interest, etc.

chair: Dietlind Gerloff (dgerloff@soe.ucsc.edu)

Lawrence Hunter (larry.hunter@uchsc.edu)
Thomas Lengauer (lengauer@mpi-sb.mpg.de)
Burkhard Rost (rost@columbia.edu)
Reinhard Schneider (reinhard.schneider@embl.de)
Tan Tin Wee (tinwee@bic.nus.edu.sg)
Anna Tramontano (anna.tramontano@uniroma1.it)
Lisa Vawter (Lisa.Vawter@sanofi-aventis.com)

The Nominations Committee manages and promotes the annual nominations process in preparation for the election of board members, officers, and student council. The committee also runs the annual closed-session board elections, including determining the election process, tallying the votes, and communicating results with all candidates.

chair: David States (dstates@bioinformatics.med.umich.edu)
vice chair: John Wooley (jwooley@ucsd.edu)

Russ Altman (russ.altman@stanford.edu)
Matthew Bellgard (matthew@arginine.murdoch.edu.au)
Howard Bilofsky (bilofsky@pcbi.upenn.edu)
Philip E. Bourne (bourne@sdsc.edu)
Joel Graber (jhgraber@jax.org)
Peter Karp (pkarp@ai.sri.com)
William Noble (noble@gs.washington.edu)
Vijaya Parthiban (parthi@uni-koeln.de)
David Rocke (dmrocke@ucdavis.edu)
Derek Ruths (druths@cs.rice.edu)
Sylvia Spengler (sjspengler@california.com)
David States (dstates@bioinformatics.med.umich.edu)
Margaret Tumusiime (tumumarg@gmail.com)
Greg Tucker-Kellogg (TUCKER-KELLOGG_GREG@Lilly.com)
Alfonso Valencia (valencia@cnio.es)
Lisa Vawter (Lisa.Vawter@sanofi-aventis.com)
Mary Waye (mary-waye@cuhk.edu.hk)
Michael Wise (mwise@cyllene.uwa.edu.au)


The Public Affairs & Policies Committee will interact with worldwide government agencies that fund bioinformatics research. The Committee, in partnership with other Societies where and when appropriate, will provide guidance to the government on policies related to bioinformatics and genomics, and will assist government agencies in defining bioinformatics funding programs. The Committee will also alert the ISCB Directorship and membership of government policy likely to impact our science, and to respond appropriately to feedback given.

co-chair: Scott Markel (smarkel@accelrys.com)
co-chair: Jill Mesirov (Mesirov@broad.mit.edu)
co-chair: David Rocke (dmrocke@ucdavis.edu)

Erich Bornberg-Bauer (ebb@uni-muenster.de)
Philip E. Bourne (bourne@sdsc.edu)
Steven Brenner (brenner@compbio.berkeley.edu)
Barbara Bryant (Barb.Bryant@mpi.com)
Matt Cockerill (matthew.cockerill@biomedcentral.com)
Deendayal Dinakarpandian (dinakard@umkc.edu)
Lynette Hirschman (lynette@mitre.org)
Joanne Luciano (jluciano@mitre.org)
Satoru Miyano (miyano@ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp)
Robert Murphy (Murphy@andrew.cmu.edu)
Christos Ouzounis (ouzounis@ebi.ac.uk, c.ouzounis@computer.org)
Burkhard Rost (rost@columbia.edu)
Chris Sander (sanderc@mskcc.org)
John Smith (jas@uab.edu)
Bin Tian (btian@umdnj.edu)
Anna Tramontano (Anna.Tramontano@uniroma1.it)
Alfonso Valencia (valencia@cnio.es)
Harel Weinstein (Harel.Weinstein@mssm.edu)
Michael Wise (mwise@cyllene.uwa.edu.au)

The Publications Committee evaluates, negotiates, and recommends to the board of directors on the publication of the Society's official journal(s) and other officially endorsed Society publications. The committee also reviews and approvees arrangements for member discounts on other journals and publications.


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