Committees

Steering Committee
Scientific Committee
Art & Science
Highlights Committee
Late Breaking Research Committee
Proceedings Committee

Poster Committee
Student Council Symposium
Special Sessions Committee
Technology Track
Travel Fellowship

Workshops Committee

 

 

Steering Committee

Bonnie Berger, Conference Co-chair, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States
Janet Kelso, Conference Co-chair, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
Paul Horton, ISCB Conferences Committee Chair, AIST, Computational Biology Research Center, Japan
Diane E. Kovats, ISCB Executive Director, Fairfax, Virginia, United States
Steven Leard, ISCB Conferences Director, Edmonton, Canada
Burkhard Rost, Highlights Chair, Technical University Munich, Germany
Reinhard Schneider, ISCB Treasurer, University of Luxembourg


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Scientific Organizing Committee

Art and Science Chair: Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern, Chair, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Spain
Highlights Track Co-chairs: Burkhard Rost, Technical University Munich, Germany &
Reinhard Schneider, ISCB Treasurer, University of Luxembourg
Late Breaking Research Track Co-chair: Dana Pe’er, Columbia University, United States &
Ioannis Xenarios, Co-Chair, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Posters Chair: Yana Bromberg, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, United States
Proceedings Co-chair: Serafim Batzoglou, Stanford, United States &
Russell Schwartz, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Scheduling Chair: Dietlind Gerloff, Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution (FfAME), United States
Special Interest Groups Chair: Alan Christoffels, University of Western Cape, South Africa
Special Sessions Chair: Donna Slonim, Tufts University, United States
Technology Track Chair: Rodrigo Lopez, European Bioinformatics Institute, United Kingdom
Travel Fellowships Chair: Guilherme Oliveira, FIOCRUZ- Minas, Brazil
Tutorials Chair: Fran Lewitter, Whitehead Institute of Biomedical Research, United States
Workshops Track Chair: Christine Orengo, University College London, United Kingdom

 

Art & Science Committee

Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern, Chair, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain
Alaa Abi-Haidar, Laboratoire Informatique de Paris 6 (LIP6), France
Venkata Satagopam, Luxembourg Centre For Systems Biomedicine (LCSB), University of Luxembourg

 

 


Highlights Committee

 
Burkhard Rost, Chair, Technical University Munich, Germany
Reinhard Schneider, Committee Co-Chair, University of Luxembourg
Nir Ben-Tal, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Bonnie Berger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States
Eric Bongcam-Rudloff, Uppsala University, Sweden
Terry Gaasterland, University of California, San Diego, United States
Yanay Ofran, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Paul Horton, Computational Biology Research Center, AIST, Japan
Marciel Kann, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, United States
Toni Kazic, University of Missouri, Columbia, 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, Israel
Predrag Radivojac, Indiana University, United States
Donna Slonim, Tufts University, Medford, United States


 


Late Breaking Research Committee

Ioannis Xenarios, Co-Chair, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Dana Pe'er, Co-chair, Columbia University, United States
Uri David Akavia, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Julien Gagneur, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany
Winston Hide, Harvard School of Public Health, United States   
Curtis Huttenhower, Harvard School of Public Health, United States
Anshul Kundaje, Stanford University, United States
Su-In Lee, University of Washington, United States
Predrag Radivojac, Indiana University, United States
Oliver Stegle, EBI, United Kingdom
Olga Vitek, Purdue University, United States
Chaolin Zhang, Columbia University, United States
Yong Zhang, Tongji University, China

 
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Poster Committee

Yana Bromberg, Committee Chair, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey,  United States
Theodore Alexandrov, University of Bremen, Germany
Hannah Carter, Johns Hopkins University, United States
Juan Miguel Cejuela, Technical University Munich, Germany
Tatyana Goldberg, Technical University Munich, Germany
Anna Goldberg, University of Toronto, Canada
Edda Kloppmann, Technical University Munich, Germany
Hande Küçük, University of Miami, United States
Weijun Luo, University of North Carolina, United States
Geoff Macintyre, University of Melbourne, Australia
Venkata P. Satagopam, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Jonas Reeb, Technical University Munich, Germany
Yan Zhang, Yale University, New Haven, United States
Chengsheng Zhu, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, United States


Proceedings

Serafim Batzoglu, Stanford University, United States
Russell Schwartz,Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States

 
PROCEEDINGS PAPERS - AREA CHAIRS
 
Applied Bioinformatics

Thomas Lengauer, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbucken, Germany
Lenore Cowan, Tufts University, Medford, United States

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Davide Bau
Asa Ben-Hur
Mathieu Blanchette
Guillaume Bourque
Jeremy Buhler
Kevin Cohen
Lenore Cowen
Noah Daniels
Susmita Datta
Ron Do
Dannie Durand
Nadia El-Mabrouk
Oliver Eulenstein
Sampsa Hautaniemi
Heng Huang
Curtis Huttenhower

Simon Kasif
Carl Kingsford
Adam Kowalczyk
Martin Krallinger
Thomas Lengauer
Ulf Leser
Stan Letovsky
Jennifer Listgarten
Po-Ru Loh
Stefano Lonardi
Chad Myers
William Stafford Noble
Bogdan Pasaniuc
Nico Pfeifer
Mihai Pop
Mattia Prosperi
Teresa Przytycka
Gunnar Rätsch
Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann
Ivo Sbalzarini
Sven-Eric Schelhorn
Marcel Schulz
Johannes Söding
Jens Stoye
Glenn Tesler
Fabio Vandin
Karin Verspoor
Jean-Phillippe Vert
Christian von Mering
Amy Williams
Yu Xia
Itai Yanai
Ralf Zimmer

 

Bioimaging & Data Visualization

Robert Murphy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States

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Scott Acton
Anne Carpenter
Gaudenz Danuser
Cris Luengo
Erik Meijering
Torsten Möller
Robert Murphy
James T. Robinson
Olaf Ronneberger
Ivo Sbalzarini
Carolina Wählby
Thomas Walter

Databases, Ontologies, & Text Mining

Hagit Shatkay, University of Delaware, Newark, United States
Alex Bateman, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom

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Alan Aronson
Chris Baker
Alex Bateman
Olivier Bodenreider
Kevin Cohen
Aaron Cohen
Nigel Collier
Dina Demner-Fushman
Juliane Fluck
Michael Galperin
Lars Juhl Jensen
Halil Kilicoglu
Jung-Jae Kim
Maria Liakata
Jinchu Luo
Kenta Nakai
Francis Ouellette
Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann
Michael Schroeder
Nigam Shah
Hagit Shatkay
Neil Smalheiser
Padmini Srinivasan
Karin Verspoor
Lana Yeganova

Disease Models & Epidemiology

Simon Kasif, Boston University, United States
David Heckerman, Microsoft Research, Los Angeles, United States

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Hector Corrada Bravo
Jonathan Dreyfuss
Clark Freifeld
Dan Geiger
Anthony Gitter
David Heckerman
Nebojsa Jojic

Simon Kasif
Kirill Korolev
Stan Letovsky
Manway Liu
Bud Mishra
Pier Palamara
Bogdan Pasaniuc
Nico Pfeifer
Hoifung Poon
Snehit Prabhu
Michael Schroeder
Tandy Warnow
Omer Weissbrod
Or Zuk

Evolution and Comparative Genomics

Bernard Moret, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
Tandy Warnow, University of Texas at Austin, United States

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Mathieu Blanchette
Bastien Boussau
Daniel Brown
Miklos Csuros
Colin Dewey
Dannie Durand
Nadia El-Mabrouk
Steve Evans
Richard Goldstein

Sridhar Hannenhalli
Barbara Holland
Junhyong Kim
Jim Leebens-Mack
Yu Lin
Bernard Moret
Luay Nakhleh
Mark Pagel
Mihai Pop
Ben Raphael
Sebastien Roch
Marie-France Sagot
David Sankoff
Saurabh Sinha
Jens Stoye
Glenn Tesler
Tandy Warnow
Shibu Yooseph

Gene Regulation & Transcriptomics

Alexander Hartemink, Duke University, Durham, United States
Zohar Yakhini, Agilent, Haifa, Israel

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Yoseph Barash
Takis Benos
Richard Bonneau
Guillaume Bourque
Alan Boyle
Michael Brent
Susmita Datta
Olof Emanuelsson
Jason Ernst
Brendan Frey
David Gifford
Raluca Gordân
Michael Hallett
Alexander Hartemink
Sampsa Hautaniemi
Haiyan Huang
Wolfgang Huber
Tim Hughes
Tommy Kaplan
Ole Christian Lingjærde
Doron Lipson
David MacAlpine
Shaun Mahony
Alexandre Morozov
Elena Nabieva
Leelavati Narlikar
Uwe Ohler
Yuan Qi
Jiang Qian
Ben Raphael
Markus Ringnér

David Rocke
Nathan Sheffield
Saurabh Sinha
Rainer Spang
Israel Steinfeld
Gary Stormo
Joshua Stuart
Amos Tanay
Koji Tsuda
Alfonso Valencia
Yu Xia
Zohar Yakhini
Yinyin Yuan
Michael Zhang
Deyou Zheng

Mass Spectrometry & Proteomics

Olga Vitek, Pardue University, West Lafayette, United States
Bill Noble, University of Washington, Seattle, United States

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Sebastian Böcker
Manfred Claassen
David Fenyo
Lukas Käll
Sangtae Kim

Lennart Martens
Alexey Nesvizhskii
William Stafford Noble
Olga VitekLennart Martens
Alexey Nesvizhskii
William Stafford Noble
Olga Vitek
Christian Von Mering
Bobbie-Jo Webb-Robertson
Daniela Witten


Metabolic Networks

Jason Papin, University of Virginia, United States
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Hal Alper
Leonid Chindelevitch
Paul Jensen
Christoph Kaleta
Peter Karp
Jason Papin
Isabel Rocha
Ryan Senger
Tomer Shlomi

Population Genomics
Eran Halperin, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Itsik Pe'er, Columbia University, New York, United States
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Can Alkan
Alexis Battle
Karsten Borgwardt
Liran Carmel
Yixuan Chen
Paul de Bakker
Ron Do
Eran Halperin

Dan He
Sepp Hochreiter
Iuliana Ionita-Laza
Eric Jorgensen
Hyun Min Kang
Bonnie Kirkpatrick
Adam Kowalczyk
Jose A. Lozano
Bogdan Pasaniuc
Itsik Pe’er
Alkes Price
Soumya Raychaudhuri
Laura Scott
Noah Zaitlen
Eleftheria Zeggini

Protein Interact & Molecular Networks
Mona Singh, Princeton University, United States
Trey Ideker, UC San Diego, United States
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Patrick Aloy
Ziv Bar-Joseph
Anastasia Baryshnikova
Asa Ben-Hur
Andreas Beyer
Juan Fernandez-Recio
Alfredo Ferro
Dario Ghersi
Casey Greene
Henning Hermiakob
Charlie Hodgman
Trey Ideker

Igor Jurisica
Tamer Kahveci
Carl Kingsford
Mehmet Koyuturk
Rui Kuang
Hans-Peter Lenhof
Tijana Milenkovic
T.M. Murali
Chad Myers
Florencio Pazos
Matteo Pellegrini
Natasa Przulj
Teresa Przytycka
Ben Raphael
Denish Scholtens
Benno Schwikowski
Ron Shamir
Mona Singh
Denis Thieffry
Jean-Philippe Vert
Esti Yeger-Lotem
Hongyu Zhao
Elena Zotenko

Protein Structure & Function
Jie Liang, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States
Jinbo Xu, Toyota Technical Institute, Chicago, United States
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Chris Bailey-Kellogg
Jadwiga Bienkowska
Philip Bradley
Rita Casadio
Brian Chen
Thomas Dandekar
Bhaskar Dasgupta
Charlotte Deane
Bruce Donald
Arne Elofsson
Andras  Fiser
Julian Gough
Turkan Haliloglu

Liisa Holm
Ozlem Keskin
Daisuke Kihara
Rachel Kolodny
Christopher Langmead
Keren Lasker
Yaohang Li
Jie Liang
Ryan Lilien
Julie Mitchell
Vikas Nanda
Avner Schlessinger
Yang Shen
Erik Sonnhammer
Maya Topf
Silvio Tosatto
Vladimir Uversky
Bjorn Wallner
Yusu Wang
Haim J. Wolfson
Yu Xia
Dong Xu
Jinbo Xu
Jinfeng Zhang
Yaoqi Zhou

RNA Bioinformatics
Ivo Hofacker, University of Vienna, Austria
Jerome Waldispuhl, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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Rolf Backofen
Danny Barash
Peter Clote
Manual Garber
Paul Gardner
Robert Giegerich
Ivo Hofacker
Fabrice Jossinet
David Mathews
Yann Ponty
Elena Rivas
Igor Ulitsky
Jerome Waldispuhl
Zasha Weinberg
Eric Westhof
Mihaela Zavolan
Michal Ziv-Ukelson

Sequence Analysis
Cenk Sahinalp, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
Michael Brudno, University of Toronto, Canada
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Tatsuya Akutsu
Can Alkan
Alberto Apostolico
Vikas Bansal
Ali Bashir
Mathieu Blanchette
C.Titus Brown
Michael Brudno
Jeremy Buhler
Francis Chin
Hector Corrada Bravo

Martin Ester
Fereydoun Hormozdiari
Tamer Kahveci
John Kececiogu
Sun Kim
Stefano Lonardi
Ion Mandoiu
Paul Medvedev
Ivan Ovcharenko
Knut Reinert
Cenk Sahinalp
Michael Schatz
Alexander Schliep
Alexander Schoenhuth
Jared Simpson
Jens Stoye
Haixu Tang
Glenn Tesler
Jerome Waldispuhl
S.M. Yiu
Alex Zelikovsky
Daniel Zerbino
 

Special Session Committee

Donna Slonim, Tufts University, Medford, United States
University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver United States
Ioannis Xenarios, Chair, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Mona Singh, Princeton University, United States

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Student Council Symposium

Farzana Rahman, Chair, University of South Wales, United Kingdom
Tomas Di Domenico, Co-chair, University of Padua, Italy
Lounnas Bilal, Communications
Dan DeBlasio, Web Chair, University of Arizona, United States
Vignesh G P, Communications
Mehedi Hassan, Communications, Web, University of South Wales, United Kingdom
Annika Jacobsen, Communications Chair, VU University, Netherlands
Himanshu Joshi, Finance, University in Olso, Norway
Alexander Junge, Travel Fellowships Chair and Program, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Pieter Meysman, Web, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Gonzalo Parra, Program, Buenos Aires University, Argentina
Joe Perez-Rogers, Social Event
Sayane Shomez, Program, Vellore Institute of Technology, India
Esmeralda Vicedo, Finances Chair, Technical University Munich, Germany
Katie Wilkins, Program chair, Cornell University, United States
 
 
 

Technology Track

Rodrigo Lopez, Chair, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Christophe Blanchet, National Centre for Scientific Research, Lyon, France
Des Higgins, University College Dublin, Ireland
Lonnie Welsh, University of Ohio, United States
William Pearson, University of Virginia School of Medicine, United States
Johannes Soeding, Ludwig-Maximilian, University of Munich, Germany

 
 

Travel Fellowships

Guilherme Oliveira, Chair, FIOCRUZ, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Joe Arrais, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Appolinaire Djikeng, International Livestock Research Institute, Kenya
Daniel Hurley, University of New Zealand, New Zealand
Francisco Lobo, EMBRAPA, Brazil
Ulisses de Mendonca Brago-Neto, Texas A & M University, United States

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Tutorials Committee

Fran Lewitter, Chair, Whitehead Institute of Biomedical Research, Cambridge, United States

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Workshop Committee

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