ISMB/ECCB2013 - Committees

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Committees - ISMB/ECCB 2013

Steering Committee
Scientific Organizing Committee
Art & Science Committee
Highlights Committee
Late Breaking Research Committee
Posters Committee
Proceedings Committee
Special Interest Groups Committee
Special Sessions
Technology Track Committee
Travel Fellowship Committee
Workshop Committee

Steering Committee

Burkhard Rost, Conference Co-chair and Highlights Chair, TUM, Munich, Germany
Anna Tramontano, Conference Co-chair, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy

Martin Vingron, Conference Co-chair, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany
Nir Ben-Tal, Proceedings Chair, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Paul Horton, ISCB Conferences Committee Chair, AIST, Computational Biology Research Center, Japan
Janet Kelso, 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

Diane Kovats, ISCB Executive Director, Fairfax, Virginia, United States

Reinhard Schneider, ISCB Treasurer, University of Luxembourg

Scientific Organizing Committee

Art and Science Chair: Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern, Chair, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain
Highlights Track Chair: Burkhard Rost, TUM, Munich, Germany
Late Breaking Research Track Chair: Ioannis Xenarios, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

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

Proceedings Chair: Nir Ben-Tal, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Special Interest Groups Chair: Alan Christoffels, University of Western Cape, South Africa

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
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
Maja Klevanski, Heidelberg, Germany
Geoff Macintyre, University of Melbourne, Australia
Venkata Satagopam, Luxembourg Centre For Systems Biomedicine (LCSB), University of Luxembourg

Highlights Committee

Burkhard Rost, Committee Co-Chair, Technical University Munich, Germany
Reinhard Schneider, Committee Co-Chair, University of Luxembourg
Kiyoshi Asai, University of Tokyo, Japan
Erik Bongcam-Rudloff, Uppsala University, Sweden
Eleazar Eskin, University of California, Los Angeles, United States
Terry Gaasterland, University of California, San Diego, United States
Yanay Ofran, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Paul Horton, Computational Biology Research Center, AIST, Tokyo, Japan
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, Bloomington, Israel
Predrag Radivojac, Indiana University, United States
Jacques Reifman, US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, Fort Detrick, United States
Donna Slonim, Tufts University, Medford, United States
Alfonso Valencia, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain
Lonnie Welch, Ohio University, Athens, United States
Ralf Zimmer, University of Munich, Germany

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Late Breaking Research Track Committee

Ioannis Xenarios, Chair, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Dana Pe'er, Co-chair, Columbia University, United States
Edoardo Airoldi, Harvard University, United States
Winston Hide, African National Bioinformatics Institute, South Africa
Oliver Hoffmann, SANBI, South Africa
Curtis Huttenhower, Harvard School of Public Health, United States
Carl Kingsford, University of Maryland, United States
Xiaole Liu, Harvard School of Public Health, United States
Florian Markowetz, Cambridge University, United States
Predrag Radivojac, Indiana University, United States
Olga Vitek, Purdue University, United States
Yong Zhang, School of Life Science and Technology, Tongji University, China

Posters Committee

Yana Bromberg, Committee Chair, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, United States
Fran Lewitter, Committee Co-Chair, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, United States
Laszlo Kajan, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Jeroen de Ridder, Delft University of Technology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Hannah Carter, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States
Iddo Friedberg, Miami University, Oxford, United States
Tatyana Goldberg, Technical University Munich, Germany
Thomas Peterson, University of Maryland, Baltimore, United States
Ben Jelen, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, United States
Nikolay Samusik, Stanford University, United States
Wyatt Clark, Indiana University, United States
Yves Moreau, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
Hande Kucuk, University of Miami, United States
Jonas Reeb, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Juan Miguel Cejuela Technical University of Munich, Germany
Oren Tzfadia, Weizmann Institute, Israel
Jason McDermott, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, United States
Geoff Macintyre, University of Melbourne, Australia
Magali Michaut, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Venkata Satagopam, Luxembourg Centre For Systems Biomedicine (LCSB), University of Luxembourg
Andrea Schafferhans, Technical University Munich, Germany
Edda Kloppmann, TUM Munich, Germany
Avner, Schlessinger, UCSF, San Francisco, United States
Stefan Senn, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, United States
Nir Ben-Tal, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Chengsheng Zhu, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, United States

Proceedings Committee

Nir Ben-Tal, Tel Aviv University, Israel

PROCEEDINGS PAPERS - AREA CHAIRS

Applied Bioinformatics

Ora Furman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Thomas Lengauer, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany

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Bioimaging & Data Visualization

Sean O'Donoghue, CSIRO & Garvan Institute, Sydney, Australia
Carolina Wählby, Broad Institute, Cambridge, United States

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Databases & Ontologies & Text Mining

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

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Disease Models & Epidemiology

Simon Kasif, Boston University, United States

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Evolution & Comparative Genomics

Tandy Warnow, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Tal Pupko, Tel Aviv University, Israel

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Gene Regulation & Transcriptomics
Zohar Yakhini, Agilent, Haifa, Israel
Alexander Hartemink, Duke University, United States

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Mass Spectrometry & Proteomics
Rob Russell, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Olga Vitek, Purdue University, West Lafayette, United States

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Metabolic Networks
Bonnie Berger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, United States
Jason Papin, University of Virginia, United States

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Population Genomics
Russell Schwartz, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States
Eleazar Eskin, University of California, Los Angeles, United States

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Protein Interactions & Molecular Networks
Mona Singh, Princeton University, United States
Roded Sharan, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

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Protein Structure & Function
Lenore Cowen, Tufts University, Medford, United States
Jie Liang, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States

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RNA Bioinformatics
Hanah Margalit, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Ivo Hofacker, University of Vienna, Vienna Austria

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

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Special Interest Groups Committee

Alan Christoffels, Committee Co-chair, University of Western Cape, South Africa
Hershel Safer, Committee Co-chair, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Jill Mesirov, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, United States
Nicky Mulder, University of Capetown, South Africa
Christine Orengo, University College London, United Kingdom

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Special Sessions Committee

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

Technology Track Committee

Rodrigo Lopez, Committee Chair, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Christophe Blanchet, Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique, Lyon, France
William Pearson, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, United States
Christine Orengo, University College London, United Kingdom
Johannes Soeding, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Des Higgins, University College Dublin, Ireland

Travel Fellowship Committee

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

Travel Fellowship Committee

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

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