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Officers and Directors

OFFICERS:
Name/URL Title Officer
term expires
Burkhard Rost

President, ISCB
Associate Professor
Columbia University, New York
USA
details

2011
Terry Gaasterland Vice President, ISCB
Professor
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.
10188 Telesis Court, Suite 100
San Diego, CA 92121
USA
details

2011
Reinhard Schneider Treasurer, ISCB
Group Leader
EMBL
Heidelberg
GERMANY
details
2011
Janet Kelso
Secretary, ISCB
Group Leader
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Leipzig
GERMANY
details
2011

DIRECTORS
Nir Ben-Tal Associate Professor, Biochemistry
Tel Aviv University
ISRAEL
details

2011
Jong Bhak Director
Theragen BioResearch Institute
AICT, Eeui-dong, Suwon
SOUTH KOREA
details
2012
Alan Christoffels DST/NRF Research Chair
University of the Western Cape
SOUTH AFRICA
details
2013
Terry Gaasterland Vice President, ISCB
Professor
University of California, San Diego
USA
details
2012
Bruno Gaeta Senior Lecturer
Bioinformatics Program Director
The University of New South Wales
AUSTRALIA
details
2010
Nils Gehlenborg European Bioinformatics Institute
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus
UNITED KINGDOM
details
2011
Dietlind L. Gerloff Assistant Professor
Department of Biomolecular Engineering
University of California
USA
details
2010
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
Leipzig
GERMANY
details

2012
Richard H. Lathrop Professor, Computer Science
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, California
USA
details

2013
Thomas Lengauer Director, Max-Planck Institute for Informatics
GERMANY
details

2011
Fran Lewitter Director, Bioinformatics and
Research Computing
Whitehead Institute
USA
details

2011
Michal Linial Vice President, ISCB
Professor of Biochemistry

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jerusalem, Israel
details
2012
Scott Markel

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

2012
Jill P. Mesirov Associate Director
and Chief Informatics Officer
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
USA

details

2012
William Stafford Noble Associate Professor
Department of Genome Sciences
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Washington
USA
details
2012
Guilherme Oliveira Senior Researcher
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation - FIOCRUZ
Brazil
details
2012
David Rocke Professor
University of California, Davis
USA
details
2010
Burkhard Rost President, ISCB
Associate Professor
Columbia University, New York
USA
details
2012
Reinhard Schneider Treasurer, ISCB
Group Leader
EMBL
Heidelberg
GERMANY
details
2012
Mona Singh Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science and
Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics
Princeton University
USA
details

2011
Tan Tin Wee Associate Professor
Dept of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine
National University of Singapore
SINGAPORE
details
2011
Anna Tramontano

Professor
Department of Biochemical Sciences
University of Rome "La Sapienza"
ITALY
details

2012
Olga Troyanskaya Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
& Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics
Princeton University
USA
details
2010
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
Dept Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics and
Center for Computational Biology
Columbia University
C2B2, 1130 St Nicholas Ave 805
New York, NY 10032
USA

Tel +1 212 851 4669
Fax +1 212 305 7932
Email:
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www.rostlab.org
www.c2b2.columbia.edu/
current term as President expires: 2011
current board term expires: 2012

Terry Gaasterland, Ph.D.
Vice President, ISCB
Professor, Genomics and Bioinformatics
University of California, San Diego
Director, Scripps Genome Center
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
9500 Gilman Drive MC 0202
La Jolla, CA 92093-0202
USA
Tel: +1 858 822 4600
Fax: +1 858 822 4641
Email:
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http://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
The Sudarsky Center for Computational Biology
Deptartment of Biological Chemistry
Life Science Institute, Givat Ram Campus

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dept of Biological Chemistry
Jerusalem 91904
ISRAEL
Tel: +972 2 658 5425
Fax: +972 2 658 6448
Email:
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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
Voice: +1 858 799 5603
Fax: +1 858 799 5222
Email:
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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
Email:
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current term as Treasurer expires: 2011
current board term expires: 2012

Janet Kelso, Ph.D.
Secretary, ISCB
Max-Planck-Institut fuer Evolutionaere Anthropologie
Abteilung fuer evolutionaere Genetik
Deutscher Platz 6
D-04103 Leipzig
GERMANY
Tel: (0) 341 3550 552
Fax: (0) 341 3550 555
Email:
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current Secretary term 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
Email:
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http://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
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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
Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
board term expires: 2013

Bruno Gaeta, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer and Bioinformatics Program Director
School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences
School of Computer Science and Engineering
The University of New South Wales
Sydney NSW 2052
AUSTRALIA
Tel: +61 2 9385 7213
Fax: +61 2 9385 1483
Email:
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www.cse.unsw.edu.au/db/staff/info/bgaeta.html
www.babs.unsw.edu.au/staff_directory/gaetab.html
current board term expires: 2010

Nils Gehlenborg
Student Council Representative to the ISCB Board of Directors
European Bioinformatics Institute
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus
Cambridge, CB10 1SD
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel: +44-1223-494687
Fax: +44-1223-494468
Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
www.ebi.ac.uk/~nils
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
Email:
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current board term expires: 2010

Kevin Karplus, Ph.D.
Professor, Biomolecular Engineering
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
USA
Tel: +1 831 459 4250
Email:
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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, California, 92697-3435
USA
Tel +1 949 824 4021
Fax +1 949 824 4056
Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
www.ics.uci.edu/~rickl
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
Email:
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current board term expires: 2011

Fran Lewitter, Ph.D.
Director, Bioinformatics and Research Computing
Whitehead Institute
9 Cambridge Center
Cambridge, MA 02142
USA
Tel: +1 617 258 5087
Email:
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http://jura.wi.mit.edu/bio
current board term expires: 2011

Jill P. Mesirov, Ph.D.
Associate Director and Chief Informatics Officer
Director, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
320 Charles Street
Cambridge, MA 02141-2023
USA
Tel: +1 617 252 1919
Fax: +1 617 252 1933
Email:
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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 St.
Seattle, WA 98195-5065
USA
Tel: (206) 543-8930
Fax: (206) 685-7301
Email: 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
Horizonte, MG, 30190-002
BRAZIL
Tel: +55-31-3349-7785
Fax: +55-31-3295-3115
Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
http://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
Medical Sciences Building 1C
One Shields Ave
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA 95616
USA
Tel: +1 530 752 6999
Fax: +1 530 754 6793
E-mail:
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www.cipic.ucdavis.edu/~dmrocke/
current board term expires: 2010

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
Email:
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www.cs.princeton.edu/~mona
current board term expires: 2011

Tan Tin Wee, 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
Email:
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http://medicine.nus.edu.sg/bioweb/acad_staff/tan_tin_wee.html
current board term expires: 2011

Anna Tramontano, Ph.D.
Department of Biochemical Sciences "Rossi Fanelli"
University of Rome "La Sapienza"
P.le Aldo Moro, 5
00185 Rome
ITALY
Tel: +39 06 4940543 (via switchboard)
Fax: +39 06 4440062 or +39 06 4453933
Email:
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http://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
Carl Icahn Laboratory
Washington Rd
Princeton, NJ 08544
USA
Tel: +1 609 258 1749
Fax: +1 609 258 9331
Email:
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http://function.princeton.edu
current board term expires: 2010

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 917328000 (ext 2179) or +34 917328059
Email:
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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
P.R. CHINA, 100871
Tel: +86 10 6275 5206
Fax: +86 10 6275 1861
Email: 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
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
Email:
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http://pharmacology.ucsd.edu/Research_Faculty/jwooley.asp
current board term expires: 2011

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