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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	2014
Terry Gaasterland	Vice President, ISCB Professor, Genomics and Bioinformatics University of California, San Diego USA details	2013
Janet Kelso	Vice President, ISCB Group Leader Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology GERMANY details	2013
Thomas Lengauer	Vice President, ISCB Director Max Planck Institute for Informatics GERMANY details	2013
Michal Linial	Vice President, ISCB Professor of Biochemistry The Sudarsky Center for Computational Biology The Hebrew University of Jerusalem ISRAEL details	2013
Reinhard Schneider	Treasurer, ISCB Head of Bioinformatics Core Facility LCSB, University of Luxembourg LUXEMBOURG details	2013
Scott Markel	Secretary, ISCB Principal Bioinformatics Architect Accelrys, Inc. USA details	2013

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DIRECTORS
Thomas Abeel	PostDoc Ghent University BELGIUM details	2013
Judith A. Blake	Associate Professor The Jackson Laboratory USA details	2014
Erik Bongcam-Rudloff	Associate Professor Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences SWEDEN details	2015
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	2014
Bruno Gaeta	Senior Lecturer Bioinformatics Program Director University of New South Wales AUSTRALIA details	2013
Dietlind L. Gerloff	Assistant Professor University of California, Santa Cruz USA details	2013
Paul Horton	Research Team Leader Computational Biology Research Center JAPAN details	2014
Janet Kelso	Vice President, ISCB Group Leader Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology GERMANY details	2014
Richard H. Lathrop	Professor, Computer Science University of California, Irvine USA details	2013
Thomas Lengauer	Vice President, ISCB Director Max Planck Institute for Informatics GERMANY details	2014
Fran Lewitter	Director, Bioinformatics and Resesarch Computing Whitehead Institute USA details	2014
Michal Linial	Vice President, ISCB Professor of Biochemistry The Sudarsky Center for Computational Biology The Hebrew University of Jerusalem ISRAEL details	2014
Scott Markel	Secretary, ISCB Principal Bioinformatics Architect Accelrys, Inc. USA details	2014
Jill P. Mesirov	Associate Director and Chief Informatics Officer The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard USA details	2015
Guilherme Oliveira	Senior Researcher Oswaldo Cruz Foundation - FIOCRUZ BRAZIL details	2015
Christine Orengo	Professor, Bioinformatics University College London UNITED KINGDOM details	2014
Predrag Radivojac	Associate Professor Indiana University USA details	2015
David Rocke	Distinguished Professor of Biostatistics and Biomedical Engineering 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	2015
Hershel Safer	Senior Research Fellow Tel Aviv University ISRAEL details	2015
Reinhard Schneider	Treasurer, ISCB Head of Bioinformatics Core Facility LCSB, University of Luxembourg LUXEMBOURG details	2014
Donna Slonim	Tufts University USA details	2014
Tan Tin Wee	Associate Professor National University of Singapore SINGAPORE details	2014
Anna Tramontano	Professor University of Rome "La Sapienza" ITALY details	2015
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	2014
Liping Wei	Professor, Director Peking University P.R. CHINA details	2013
Lonnie R. Welch	Stuckey Professor, Director of the Bioinformatics Laboratory Ohio University USA details	2015
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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: 2014 current board term expires 2015

	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: 2013 current board term expires 2014

	Janet Kelso, Ph.D. Vice President, 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 Vice President expires: 2013 current board term expires 2014

	Thomas Lengauer, Ph.D. Vice President, ISCB Director Max Planck Institute for Informatics Campus E1 4 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 term as Vice President expires: 2013 current board term expires 2014

	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: 2013 current board term expires 2014

	Reinhard Schneider, Ph.D. Treasurer, ISCB Head of Bioinformatics Core Facility Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) LCSB, University of Luxembourg 162 A, avenue de la Faïencerie L-1511 LUXEMBOURG E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it www.lcsb.lu current term as Treasurer expires: 2013 current board term expires 2014

	Scott Markel, Ph.D. Secretary, 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 Secretary expires: 2013 current board term expires 2014

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DIRECTORS DETAILS
	Thomas Abeel, Ph.D. Student Council Representative to the ISCB Board of Directors PostDoc VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology Ghent University Technologiepark 927 9052 Zwijnaarde BELGIUM Tel: +32 9 33 136 95 Fax: +32 9 33 138 09 E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be/people/profile/thomasabeel current board term expires 2013

	Judith A. Blake, Ph.D. Associate Professor Bioinformatics and Computational Biology The Jackson Laboratory 600 Main Street Bar Harbor, ME 04609 USA Tel: 207-288-6248 Fax: 207-288-6131 E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it research.jax.org/faculty/judith_blake.html current board term expires 2014

	Erik Bongcam-Rudloff, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Undervisningsplan 4 A, Box 7023 750 07 Uppsala SWEDEN Tel: +46-18-672121 Fax: +46(0)18-67 28 48 E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it www.bongcam.com current board term expires 2015

	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

	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

	Paul Horton, Ph.D. Research Team Leader AIST Computational Biology Research Center Tokyo, Koto, Aomi 2-42. 135-0064 JAPAN Tel: +81-3-3599-8064 Fax: +81-3-3599-8081 E-mail: horton-p @YES_I_CAN_PASS_THE_TURING_TEST aist.go.jp seq.cbrc.jp current board term expires 2014

	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

	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 2014

	Jill P. 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 2015

	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 2015

	Christine Orengo, Ph.D. Professor, Bioinformatics Department of Structural and Molecular Biology University College London Darwin Building Gower Street London, NW5 4PG UNITED KINGDOM Tel: +44 20 7679 3284 Fax: +44 20 7679 7890 E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it current board term expires 2014

	Predrag Radivojac, Ph.D. Associate Professor Informatics and Computing Indiana University 150 S. Woodlawn Avenue Bloomington, Indiana 47405 USA Tel: 812-856-1851 Fax: 812-856-1995 E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it www.informatics.indiana.edu/predrag/ current board term expires 2015

	David Rocke, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor of Biostatistics and Biomedical Engineering Division of Biostatistics University of California, Davis Medical Sciences Building 1C One Shields Ave Davis, CA 95616 USA Tel: +1 530 752 6999 Fax: +1 530 752 3239 E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it dmrocke.ucdavis.edu/ current board term expires 2013

	Hershel Safer, Ph.D. Senior Research Fellow Tel Aviv University Schreiber Building, Room 223 Tel Aviv 69978 ISRAEL Tel: +972-54-463-1977 Fax: +972-8-949-5193 E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it current board term expires 2015

	Donna Slonim, Ph.D. Department of Computer Science, School of Engineering Tufts University 161 College Avenue Medford, MA 02155 USA Tel: +1 617 627 2225 Fax: +1 617 627 2227 E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it www.cs.tufts.edu/~slonim current board term expires 2014

	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 E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it current board term expires 2014

	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 2015

	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 2014

	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

	Lonnie R. Welch, Ph.D. Stuckey Professor, Director of the Bioinformatics Laboratory School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Ohio University 329 Stocker Center Ohio University Athens, Ohio 45701 USA Tel: 740-593-1575 Fax: 740-593-0007 E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it www.ohio.edu/cidds/welch/ current board term expires 2015

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