ISMB2012 - Committee

20th Annual International Conference on
Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology

Committees - ISMB 2012

Steering Committee
Scientific Committee
Proceedings Committee
Highlights Committee
Special Interest Groups Committee
Student Council Symposium Committee
Technology Track Committee
Tutorial Committee
Late Breaking Research Committee
Workshop Track

Steering Committee

Terry Gaasterland, Conference Co-chair, University of California, San Diego, United States

Richard Lathrop, Conference Co-chair, University of California, Irvine, United States

Burkhard Rost, Conference Co-chair and Highlights Chair, TUM, Munich, Germany

Bonnie Berger, Proceedings Chair, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, United States

Janet Kelso, ISCB Conferences Committee Chair, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Steven Leard, ISCB Conferences Director, Edmonton, Canada

Michal Linial, Special Sessions Chair, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

BJ Morrison McKay, ISCB Executive Officer, San Diego, United States

Reinhard Schneider, ISCB Treasurer, University of Luxembourg

Scientific Organizing Committee

Highlights Track Chair: Burkhard Rost, Technical University Munich, Germany
Late Breaking Research Track Chair: Olga Troyanskaya, Princeton University, United States

Posters Chair: Yana Bromberg, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, United States

Tutorials Chair: Janet Kelso, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Proceedings Chair: Bonnie Berger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, United States

Special Interest Groups Chair: Hershel Safer, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Special Sessions Chair: Michal Linial, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Technology Track Chair: Rodrigo Lopez, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Travel Fellowships Chair: Guilherme Oliveira, FIOCRUZ – Minas, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Workshops Track Chair: Christine Orengo, University College London, United Kingdom

Proceedings Committee

Bonnie Berger, Proceedings Chair, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, United States

PROCEEDINGS PAPERS - AREA CHAIRS

Applied Bioinformatics

Anna Tramontano, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy
Marie France Sagot, INRIA Grenoble - Rhône-Alpes, and University of Lyon, France

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Bioimaging & Data Visualization

Robert Murphy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States
Sean O'Donohue, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany

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Databases & Ontologies

Alex Bateman, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom
Suzanna Lewis, Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, Berkeley, United States

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Disease Models & Epidemiology

Simon Kasif, Boston University, United States
Isaac Kohane, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge MA, United States

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Evolution & Comparative Genomics

Teresa Przytycka, NCBI, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, United States
Dannie Durand, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States

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Gene Regulation & Transcriptomics

David Gifford, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
Donna Slonim, Tufts University, Medford, United States

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Mass Spectrometry & Proteomics
Knut Reinert, Freie University Berlin, Germany
Nuno Bandiera, University of California, San Diego, United States

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Population Genomics
Russell Schwartz, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States
Eran Halperin, International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, United States

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Protein Interactions & Molecular Networks
Mona Singh, Princeton University, United States
Carl Kingsford, University of Maryland, College Park, United States

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Protein Structure & Function
Lenore Cowen, Tufts University, Medford, United States
Nir Ben-Tal, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

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Sequence Analysis
Serafim Batzoglou, Stanford, United States
Cenk Sahinalp, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada

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Text Mining
Hagit Shatkay, University of Delaware, Newark, United States
Alfonso Valencia, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid Spain

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Highlights Committee

Chair: Burkhard Rost, Technical University Munich, Germany
Co-Chair: Reinhard Schneider, University of Luxembourg

Nir Ben-Tal, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv Israel
Erik Bongcam-Rudloff, Uppsala University, Uppsala Sweden
Terry Gaasterland, University of California, San Diego, United States
Paul Horton, Computational Biology Research Center, AIST, Japan
Toni Kazic, University of Missouri, Computer Science, United States
Janet Kelso, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
Stefan Kramer, Technical University Munich, Germany
Michal Linial, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem Israel
Yanay Ofran, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan Israel
Jacques Reifman, US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, United States
Donna Slonim, Tufts University, Medford, United States
Alfonso Valencia, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain
Ralf Zimmer, University of Munich, Germany

Special Interest Groups Committee

Hershel Safer, Tel Aviv University, Israel (Chair)
Mike Cherry, Stanford University, United States
Joaquin Dopazo, Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe (CIPF), Valencia, Spain
Jill Mesirov, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, United States 
Nicky Mulder, University of Capetown, South Africa
Ivan Ovcharenko, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, United States

Student Council Symposium Committee

Alexander Goncearenco, Chair, University of Bergen, Norway (Chair)

Olga Botvinnik, Co-chair, University of California, Santa Cruz, United States

Anupama Jigisha, Finance Committee Chair, UNIGE, SIB, Switzerland

Cynthia Prudence, Booklet Chair, University of Rhode Island, United States

Priscila Grynberg, Program Chair, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Lorena Pantano Rubino, Travel Fellowships Chair, Center for Genomic Regulation, Spain

Umesh Kandal, Social Chair, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Avinash Kumar Shanmugam, Keynotes Chair, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States

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TECHNOLOGY TRACK COMMITTEE

Rodrigo Lopez, Committee Chair, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Christophe Blanchet, Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique, Lyon, France
Dominic Clark,EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
William Pearson, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, United States
Johannes Soeding, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, Germany

Tutorials Committee

Chair: Janet Kelso, Committee Chair, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
Fran Lewitter, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, United States

Late Breaking Research Committee

Chair: Olga Troyanskaya, Princeton University, United States
Co-chair: Florian Markowetz, Cambridge Research Institute, United Kingdom
Co-chair: Ioannis Xenarios, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Geneva, Switzerland

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Workshops Committee

Chair: Christine Orengo, University College London, United Kingdom
Janet Kelso, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
Predrag Radivojac, Indiana University, United States

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