ISMB/ECCB2011 - Committee

19th Annual International Conference on
Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology and
10th European Conference on Computational Biology

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

Steering Committee

Burkhard Rost, Conference Chair and Highlights Chair, Technical University Munich, Germany

Terry Gaasterland, Proceedings Chair, University of California, San Diego, 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 Conference Vice-chair and Special Sessions Chair, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

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

Reinhard Schneider, ISCB Treasurer, Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB), University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Peter Schuster, Honorary Chair, University of Vienna (Professor Emeritus), Austria

Olga Troyanskaya, Past Conference Chair (2010), Princeton University, United States

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

Proceedings Chair: Terry Gaasterland, University of California, San Diego, 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

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

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

Art & Science Chair: Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern, Committee Chair, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain

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Art and Science Committee

Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern, Committee Chair, Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO), Madrid, Spain
Nils Gehlenborg, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
Magali Michaut, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Venkata P. Satagopam, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany

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Highlights Committee

Chair: Burkhard Rost Technical University Munich, Germany
Co-Chair: Reinhard Schneider, Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB), University of Luxembourg, 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
Ivo Hofacker, University of Vienna, Vienna Austria
Paul Horton, Computational Biology Research Center, AIST, Japan
Toni Kazic, University of Missouri, Columbia, United States
Michal Linial, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem Israel
Yanay Ofran, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan Israel
David Rocke, UC Davis, 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

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Late Breaking Research Committee

Olga Troyanskaya, Chair, Princeton University, United States
Edoardo Airoldi, Harvard University, Boston, United States
Matt Hibbs, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, United States
Curtis Huttenhower, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, United States
Carl Kingsford University of Maryland, College Park, United States
Xiaole Liu, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, United States
Florian Markowetz, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Chad Myers, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States
Dana Peer, Columbia University, New York, United States
Predrag Radivojac, Indiana University, Bloomington, United States
Olga Vitek, Purdue University, West Lafayette, United States
Elena Zaslavsky, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, United States

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Posters Committee

Yana Bromberg, Chair, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Theodore Alexandrov, University of Bremen, Germany
Jeremy Bellay, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States
Emidio Capriotti, Stanford University, Palo Alto, United States
Brian Chen, Columbia University, New York, United States
Wyatt Clark, Indiana University, Pennsylvania, United States
Jeroen de Ridder, Delft University of Technology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Javier Diaz, Indiana University, Pennsylvania, United States
Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern, Spanish National Cancer Research Center (NCIO), Madrid, Spain
Nils Gehlenborg, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
Yana Gofman, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Arik Harel, Rutgers, New Jersey, United States
Laszlo Kajan, TUM Munich, Germany
Marco Punta, TUM Munich, Germany
Edda Kloppmann, TUM Munich, Germany
Magali Michaut, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Nathan Nehrt, Indiana University, Pennsylvania, United States
Gaurav Pandey, University of California, Berkeley, United States
Venkata Satagopam, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
Andrea Schafferhans, TUM Munich, Germany
Markus Schmidberger, TUM Munich, Germany
Maya Schushan, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Christian Schäfer, TUM Munich, Germany
Janita Thusberg, Buck Institute, California, United States

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Proceedings Committee

Terry Gaasterland, Proceedings Chair, University of California, San Diego, United States

Martin Vingron, Proceedings Co-Chair, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany

PROCEEDINGS PAPERS - AREA CHAIRS

Applied Bioinformatics

Phil Bourne, University of California, San Diego, United States
Lawrence Hunter, University of Colorado, Denver, United States