Committees

Conference Chairs
Steering Committee
Scientific Organizing Committee
Highlights Committee
Posters Committee
Proceedings Chairs
Special Interest Groups
Student Council Symposium Committee
Late Breaking Research
Travel Fellowships Committee
Tutorials Committee
Art and Science Committee
Technology Track Committee

Conference Chairs

Olga Troyanskaya, Conference Chair, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA
Michal Linial, Conference Co-chair, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
Jill Mesirov, Conference Co-Chair, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, USA

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Steering Committee

Burkhard Rost, Steering Committee Chair and Highlights Chair, Columbia University, New York, USA

Barbara Bryant, Constellation Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, USA

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

Steven Leard, ISCB Conferences Director, Edmonton, Canada

Fran Lewitter, Outreach Committee Chair, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, USA

Michal Linial Conference Co-chair and Special Sessions Chair, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

BJ Morrison McKay, ISCB Executive Officer, San Diego, USA

Jill P. Mesirov, Conference Co-chair, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, USA

Eugene W. Myers, Past Conference Chair, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, USA

Reinhard Schneider, ISCB Treasurer, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

Mona Singh, Proceedings Papers Chair, Princeton University, USA

Olga Troyanskaya, Conference Chair, Princeton University, USA

 

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Scientific Organizing Committee

Highlights Track Chair: Burkhard Rost, Columbia University, New York, USA

Late Breaking Research Chair: John Quackenbush, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA

Poster Chair: Yana Bromberg, Columbia University, New York, USA

Proceedings Papers Track Chair: Mona Singh, Princeton University, NJ, USA

Special Interest Groups Chair: Hershel Safer, Rehovot, Israel

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

Technology Track Chair: Rodrigo Lopez, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK

Travel Fellowships Chair: Guilherme Oliveira, FIOCRUZ – Minas, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

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

Conference Workshop Track Chair: Jill Mesirov, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, USA

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Highlights Committee

Chair: Burkhard Rost Columbia University New York USA
Co-Chair: Reinhard Schneider, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

Nir Ben-Tal, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv Israel
Erik Bongcam-Rudloff, Uppsala University, Uppsala Sweden
Terry Gaasterland, University of California, San Diego USA
Ivo Hofacker, University of Vienna, Vienna Austria
Trey Ideker, University of California, San Diego San Diego USA
Toni Kazic, University of Missouri, Columbia USA
Janet Kelso, Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig Germany
Michal Linial, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem Israel
Yanay Ofran, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan Israel
David Roos, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia USA
Reinhard Schneider, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg Germany
Olga Troyanskaya, Princeton University, Princeton USA
Alfonso Valencia, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid Spain
Ralf Zimmer, University of Munich, Munich Germany
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Posters Committee

Yana Bromberg, Chair, Columbia University, New York, USA

Marco Punta, Technical University of Munich

Nikolay Samusik, Max Planck Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology, Dresden

Laszlo Kajan, Technical University of Munich

Ta-tsen Soong, Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Markus Fischer, Columbia University

Fabian Dey, Columbia University

Eugenia Lyashenko, Columbia University

Tobias Hamp, Technical University of Munich

Shruti Rastogi, Columbia University

Avner Schlessinger, UC San Francisco

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Proceedings Chairs

 

 

PROCEEDINGS PAPERS COMMITTEE CHAIRS

Mona Singh, Proceedings Chair, Princeton University NJ, USA
Joel Bader, (Proceedings Co-chair), John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA

 

PROCEEDINGS PAPERS - AREA CHAIRS

 

Bioimaging

Gene Myers,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, USA
Robert Murphy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

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Databases & Ontologies

Alex Bateman, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK
Suzanna Lewis, Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, Berkeley, USA

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Disease Models & Epidemiology

Thomas Lengauer, Max-Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany
Yves Moreau, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium

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Evolution and Comparative Genomics

Dannie Durand, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
Teresa Przytycka, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA

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Gene Regulation & Transcriptomics

Hanah Margalit, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Eric Xing, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

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Population Genomics

Eleazar Eskin, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Eran Halperin, International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, USA

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Protein Interactions & Molecular Networks

Alfonso Valencia, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid, Spain
Roded Sharan, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

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Protein Structure & Function

Bonnie Berger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
Nir Ben-Tal, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

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Sequence Analysis

Michael Brudno, University of Toronto, Canada
Cenk Sahinalp, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada

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Text Mining

Andrey Rzhetsky, University of Chicago, USA
Hagit Shatkay, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada

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Other

Phil Bourne, University of California San Diego, USA
Barb Bryant, Constellation Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, USA

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Special Interest Groups Committee

Hershel Safer, Chair, Rehovot, Israel

Mike Cherry, Stanford, Palo Alto, USA

Joaquin Dopazo, Prince Felipe Research Centre (CIPF), Valencia, Spain

Jill Mesirov, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, USA

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Student Council Symposium Committee

Thomas Abeel, SCS6 Chair, Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium and Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA

Magali Michaut, SCS6 co-chair, Terrence Donnelly CCBR, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Chris Klijn, Program chair, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, division of Molecular Biology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Jeroen de Ridder, Fundraising, Bioinformatics group, Delft University of Technology, Delft and Bioinformatics and statistics group, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Phil Hyoun Lee, Speakers and Social Events, Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston and Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, USA.

Venkata P. Satagopam, Marketing and website, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

Avinash K. Shanmugam, Conference Booklet, Centre for Computational Medicine and Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

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Late Breaking Research Committee

John Quackenbush, Committee Chair, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA

Chen Li, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA

Winston Hide, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA

Benjamin Haibe-Kains, School of Public Health, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, USA

Matt Hibbs, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, USA

Stefan Bentink, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA

Chad Myers, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

Florian Markowetz, Cambridge University, United Kingdom

Olga Troyanskaya, Princeton University, Princeton, USA

Oliver Hofmann, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA

Curtis Huttenhower, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA

Ivana Yang, National Jewish Health, Denver, USA

Olga Vitek, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA

Carl Kingford, University of Maryland, College Park, USA

Amira Djebbari, National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada

Guocheng Yuan, Harvard, Boston, USA

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Travel Fellowship Committee

Guilherme Oliveira, Chair, Genomics and Computational Biology Group. FIOCRUZ, Brazil

Fernan Aguero, University of San Martin, Argentina

Michael Brudno, University of Toronto, Canada

João Carlos Setubal, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA

Alan Christoffels, South African Bioinformatics Institute, South Africa

Worachart Sirawaraporn , Mahidol University, Thailand

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Tutorials Committee

Janet Kelso, Committee Chair, Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
Fran Lewitter, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, USA

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Art and Science Committee

Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern, Committee Chair, Spanish National Cancer Research Center (NCIO), Madrid, Spain
Noura Chelbat, Johannes Kepler University, Linz Institute of Bioinformatics, Linz, Austria
Nils Gehlenborg, European Bioinformatics Institute and University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Magali Michaut, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Venkata Satagopam, Structural and Computational Biology, Heidelberg, Germany

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Technology Track Committee

Rodrigo Lopez, Committee Chair, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK
Steven Leard, ISCB Conferences Director, Edmonton, Canada

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