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OFFICERS:
Name/URL Title Officer
term expires
Burkhard Rost

President, ISCB
Alexander von Humboldt Professor
Chair, Bioinformatics & Comp. Biol., Comp.
Sciences
Technical University Munich
GERMANY
details

2013
Terry Gaasterland

Vice President, ISCB
Professor, Genomics and Bioinformatics
University of California, San Diego
USA
details

2011
Michal Linial

Vice President, ISCB
Professor of Biochemistry
The Sudarsky Center for Computational Biology
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
ISRAEL
details

2011
Scott Markel

Vice President, ISCB
Principal Bioinformatics Architect
Accelrys, Inc.
USA
details

2011
Reinhard Schneider

Treasurer, ISCB
Team Leader
EMBL Heidelberg
GERMANY
details

2011
Janet Kelso

Secretary, ISCB
Group Leader
Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
GERMANY
details

2011

DIRECTORS
Nir Ben-Tal

Associate Professor, Biochemistry
Tel Aviv University
ISRAEL
details

2011
Jong Bhak

Director
Theragen BioResearch Institute
SOUTH KOREA
details

2012
Alan Christoffels

DST/NRF Research Chair in Bioinformatics and Health Genomics
University of the Western Cape
SOUTH AFRICA
details

2013
Terry Gaasterland

Vice President, ISCB
Professor, Genomics and Bioinformatics
University of California, San Diego
USA
details

2012
Bruno Gaeta

Senior Lecturer
Bioinformatics Program Director
University of New South Wales
AUSTRALIA
details

2013
Nils Gehlenborg

European Bioinformatics Institute
Welcome Trust Genome Campus
UNITED KINGDOM
details

2011
Dietlind L. Gerloff

Assistant Professor
University of California, Santa Cruz
USA
details

2013
Kevin Karplus

Professor, Biomolecular Engineering
University of California, Santa Cruz
USA
details

2011
Janet Kelso

Secretary, ISCB
Group Leader
Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
GERMANY
details

2012
Richard H. Lathrop

Professor, Computer Science
University of California, Irvine
USA
details

2013
Thomas Lengauer

Director
Max-Planck Institute for Informatics
GERMANY
details

2011
Fran Lewitter

Director, Bioinformatics and Resesarch Computing
Whitehead Institute
USA
details

2011
Michal Linial

Vice President, ISCB
Professor of Biochemistry
The Sudarsky Center for Computational Biology
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
ISRAEL
details

2012
Scott Markel

Vice President, ISCB
Principal Bioinformatics Architect
Accelrys, Inc.
USA
details

2012
Jill Mesirov

Associate Director and Chief Informatics Officer
The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
USA
details

2012
William Stafford Noble

Associate Professor
University of Washington
USA
details

2012
Guilherme Oliveira

Senior Researcher
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation - FIOCRUZ
BRAZIL
details

2012
David Rocke

Professor, Division of Biostatistics
Professor, Department of Applied Science
University of California, Davis
USA
details

2013
Burkhard Rost

President, ISCB
Alexander von Humboldt Professor
Chair, Bioinformatics & Comp. Biol., Comp.
Sciences
Technical University Munich
GERMANY
details

2014
Reinhard Schneider

Treasurer, ISCB
Team Leader
EMBL Heidelberg
GERMANY
details

2012
Mona Singh

Associate Professor
Princeton University
USA
details

2011
Tin Wee Tan

Associate Professor
National University of Singapore
SINGAPORE
details

2011
Anna Tramontano

Professor
University of Rome "La Sapienza"
ITALY
details

2012
Olga Troyanskaya

Assistant Professor
Princeton University
Carl Icahn Laboratory
USA
details

2013
Alfonso Valencia

S-CompBio
Structural and Computational Biology Programme
Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO)
SPAIN
details

2011
Liping Wei

Professor, Director
Peking University
P.R. CHINA
details

2013
John Wooley

Professor & Associate Vice Chancellor, Research
Pharmacology & Chem-Biochem
University of California San Diego
USA
details

2011
OFFICERS DETAILS
Burkhard Rost, Ph.D.
President, ISCB
Alexander von Humboldt Professor
Chair, Bioinformatics & Comp. Biol., Comp.
Sciences
Technical University Munich
Informatik, Bioinformatik
Institute for Advanced Studies
Boltzmannstrasse 3, Garching b.
85748 Munich
GERMANY
Tel: +49-89-289-17811
E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
www.rostlab.org
current term as President expires: 2013
current board term expires 2014

Terry Gaasterland, Ph.D.
Vice President, ISCB
Professor, Genomics and Bioinformatics
University of California, San Diego
Scripps Genome Center
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
9500 Gilman Drive MC 0202
La Jolla, CA 92093-0202
USA
Tel: +1 858 727 4600
Fax: +1 858 822 4641
E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
genomes.ucsd.edu
current term as Vice President expires: 2011
current board term expires 2012

Michal Linial, Ph.D.
Vice President, ISCB
Professor of Biochemistry
Department of Biological Chemistry
The Sudarsky Center for Computational Biology
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Life Sciences Institute, Givat Ram Campus
Jerusalem 91904
ISRAEL
Tel: +972 2 658 5425
Fax: +972 2 658 6448
E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
www.ls.huji.ac.il/~michall/
current term as Vice President expires: 2011
current board term expires 2012

Scott Markel, Ph.D.
Vice President, ISCB
Principal Bioinformatics Architect
Accelrys, Inc.
10188 Telesis Court, Suite 100
San Diego, CA 92121
USA
Tel: +1 858 205 3653
Fax: +1 858 799 5222
E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
www.accelrys.com/
current term as Vice President expires: 2011
current board term expires 2012

Reinhard Schneider, Ph.D.
Treasurer, ISCB
Team Leader
EMBL Heidelberg
Meyerhofstr. 1
69117 Heidelberg
GERMANY
Tel: +49 6221 387 528
Fax: +49 6221 387 517
E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
current term as Treasurer expires: 2011
current board term expires 2012

Janet Kelso, Ph.D.
Secretary, ISCB
Group Leader
Evolutionary Genetics
Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
D-04103 Leipzig
GERMANY
Tel: (0) 341 3550 552
Fax: (0) 341 3550 555
E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
current term as Secretary expires: 2011
current board term expires 2012

DIRECTORS DETAILS
Nir Ben-Tal, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Biochemistry
Tel Aviv University
Ramat Aviv
Tel Aviv 69978
ISRAEL
Tel: +972-3-640-6709
Fax: +972-3-640-6834
E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
ashtoret.tau.ac.il
current board term expires 2011

Jong Bhak, Ph.D.
Director
Theragen BioResearch Institute
AICT, Eeui-dong, Suwon
SOUTH KOREA
Tel: +82 10 7799 6754
E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
current board term expires 2012

Alan Christoffels, Ph.D.
DST/NRF Research Chair in Bioinformatics and Health Genomics
South African National Bioinformatics Institute
University of the Western Cape
Modderdam Road Bellville
Cape Town
SOUTH AFRICA
Tel: +27 21 959 3645
Fax: +27 21 959 2512
E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
current board term expires 2013

Bruno Gaeta, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer
Bioinformatics Program Director
School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences
School of Computer Science and Engineering
University of New South Wales
Sydney, NSW 2052
AUSTRALIA
Tel: +61 2 9385 7213
Fax: +61 2 9385 1483
E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
www.cse.unsw.edu.au/db/staff/info/bgaeta.html
current board term expires 2013

Nils Gehlenborg
Student Council Representative to the ISCB Board of Directors
European Bioinformatics Institute
Welcome Trust Genome Campus
Cambridge, CB10 1SD
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel: +44 1223 494687
Fax: +44 1223 494468
E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
www.ebi.ac.uk/~nils
current board term expires 2011

Dietlind L. Gerloff, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomolecular Engineering
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
USA
Tel: 1 831 459 4833
E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
current board term expires 2013

Kevin Karplus, Ph.D.
Professor, Biomolecular Engineering
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
USA
Tel: 1 831 459 4250
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current board term expires 2011

Richard H. Lathrop, Ph.D.
Professor, Computer Science
Dept. of Computer Science
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics
Computational Biology Research Laboratory
University of California, Irvine
3019 Donald Bren Hall
Irvine, CA 92697-3425
USA
Tel: +1 949 824 4021
Fax: +1 949 824 4056
E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
www.ics.uci.edu/~rickl
current board term expires 2013

Thomas Lengauer, Ph.D.
Director
Max-Planck Institute for Informatics
Stuhlsatzenhausweg 85
66123 Saarbrucken
GERMANY
Tel: +49 681 9325 300
Fax: +49 681 9325 399
E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
current board term expires 2011

Fran Lewitter, Ph.D.
Director, Bioinformatics and Resesarch Computing
Whitehead Institute
9 Cambridge Center
Cambridge, MA 02142
USA
Tel: +1 617 258 5087
E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
jura.wi.mit.edu/bio
current board term expires 2011

Jill Mesirov, Ph.D.
Associate Director and Chief Informatics Officer
Director, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
320 Charles Street
Cambridge, MA 02141-2023
USA
Tel: +1 617 252 1919
Fax: +1 617 252 1933
E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
www.broad.mit.edu/about/bios/bio-mesirov.html
current board term expires 2012

William Stafford Noble, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Genome Sciences
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Washington
Box 355065
Foege Building, S220B
1705 NE Pacific Street
Seattle, WA 98195-5065
USA
Tel: +1 206 543 8930
Fax: +1 206 685 7301
E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
www.gs.washington.edu/~noble
current board term expires 2012

Guilherme Oliveira, Ph.D.
Senior Researcher
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation - FIOCRUZ
Av. Augusto de Lima 1715, Belo
30190-002 MG, Horizonte
BRAZIL
Tel: +55-31-3349-7785
Fax: +55-31-3295-3115
E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
bioinfo.cpqrr.fiocruz.br
current board term expires 2012

David Rocke, Ph.D.
Professor, Division of Biostatistics
Professor, Department of Applied Science
Division of Biostatistics
University of California, Davis
Medical Sciences Building 1C
One Shields Ave
Davis, CA 95616
USA
Tel: +1 530 752 6999
Fax: +1 530 754 6793
E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
www.cipic.ucdavis.edu/~dmrocke/
current board term expires 2013

Mona Singh, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science and Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics
Princeton University
35 Olden Street
Princeton, NJ 08544
USA
Tel: +1 609 258 2087
Fax: +1 609 258 1771
E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
www.cs.princeton.edu/~mona
current board term expires 2011

Tin Wee Tan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Dept of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine
National University of Singapore
10 Kent Ridge Crescent
Singapore 119260
SINGAPORE
Tel: +65 96640347
Fax: +65 67777936
E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
current board term expires 2011

Anna Tramontano, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Biochemical Sciences "Rossi Fanelli"
University of Rome "La Sapienza"
P.le Aldo Moro, 5
Rome 00185
ITALY
Tel: +39 06 4940543
Fax: +39 06 4440062
E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
cassandra.bio.uniroma1.it/
current board term expires 2012

Olga Troyanskaya, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science & Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics
Princeton University
Carl Icahn Laboratory
Washington Rd
Princeton, NJ 08544
USA
Tel: +1 609 258 1749
Fax: +1 609 258 9331
E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
function.princeton.edu
current board term expires 2013

Alfonso Valencia, Ph.D.
S-CompBio
Structural and Computational Biology Programme
Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO)
Melchor Fernandez Almagro, 3
E-28029 Madrid
SPAIN
Tel: +34 917328059
E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
www.cnio.es/ing/grupos/plantillas/personal.asp?pag=727
current board term expires 2011

Liping Wei, Ph.D.
Professor, Director
Center for Bioinformatics, College of Life Sciences
Peking University
#5 Yiheyuan Road
Beijing 100871
P.R. CHINA
Tel: +86 10 6275 5206
Fax: +86 10 6275 1861
E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
www.cbi.pku.edu.cn/people/faculty/wei_li_ping.html
current board term expires 2013

John Wooley, Ph.D.
Professor & Associate Vice Chancellor, Research
Pharmacology & Chem-Biochem
University of California San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive, Mail Code 0446
La Jolla, CA 92093-0446
USA
Tel: +1 858 534 2494
Fax: +1 858 822 1452
E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
current board term expires 2011

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