Committees

Conference Chairs

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

Bonnie Berger, Professor of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science. Among the first algorithmic computer scientists to enter the field of computational molecular biology, making fundamental contributions to structural bioinformatics, viral shell assembly and mis-assembly, comparative genomics, protein networks, and theoretical models of protein folding. Played a major role in shaping these fields as a mentor to young researchers. Influenced many subareas of computational biology, largely via algorithmic insights; introduced probabilistic modeling to protein fold recognition; founded and developed conservation-based methods for comparative genomics; and solved a difficult theoretical problem central to the biophysics and protein folding communities. Showed how to globally align protein interaction networks using an eigenvalue formulation, and used these alignments to uncover functionally related proteins across model organisms. Recently invented “compressive genomics” and demonstrated that algorithms that compute directly on compressed data allow the analysis of genomic data sets to keep pace with data generation. Close collaborations with experimental biologists have guided her computational work and given it significant impact in the laboratory. Hundreds of biology labs rely on software she developed and made freely available. Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Fellow, International Society for Computational Biology. Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery. Named one of Technology Review’s inaugural 100 Young Innovators of 1999. In 2011, selected to deliver the Margaret Pittman Director’s Lecture at the National Institutes of Health.

Website: http://people.csail.mit.edu/bab/

Janet Kelso, is Bioinformatics research group leader and Minerva Professor at the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.
Her research interests include analysis of ancient genomes, primate comparative genomics and gene expression and the development and application of ontologies for biomedical applications. Her group uses computational approaches to gain insights into genome evolution in primates and have a special interest in the development of novel software for processing and analysis of high-throughput sequence data.
Janet received her PhD in bioinformatics from the South African National Bioinformatics Institute at the University of the Western Cape under the supervision of Professor Winston Hide working on an ontology for classifying gene expression data for which she won the L'Oreal women in science fellowship. She is author of more than 50 peer-reviewed scientific publications. Together with Alfonso Valencia, Janet is the co-Editor-in-chief of the journal Bioinformatics, and also an editor of the journal Database. She is an active member of the Board of the International Society of Computational Biology and has held the positions of both Vice-president and secretary of the society.

Website: http://www.eva.mpg.de/genetics/bioinformatics/overview.html

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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