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20th Annual International Conference on
Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology

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Committees - ISMB 2012

Steering Committee
Scientific Committee
Proceedings Committee
Highlights Committee
Special Interest Groups Committee
Student Council Symposium Committee
Technology Track Committee
Tutorial Committee
Late Breaking Research Committee
Posters Committee
Workshop Track

Steering Committee

Terry Gaasterland, Conference Co-chair, University of California, San Diego, United States

Richard Lathrop, Conference Co-chair, University of California, Irvine, United States

Burkhard Rost, Conference Co-chair and Highlights Chair, TUM, Munich, Germany

Bonnie Berger, Proceedings Chair, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, 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, Special Sessions Chair, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

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

Reinhard Schneider, ISCB Treasurer, University of Luxembourg

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

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

Proceedings Chair: Bonnie Berger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, 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

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

Proceedings Committee

Bonnie Berger, Proceedings Chair, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, United States

PROCEEDINGS PAPERS - AREA CHAIRS

Applied Bioinformatics

Anna Tramontano, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy
Marie France Sagot, INRIA Grenoble - Rhône-Alpes, and University of Lyon, France

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Bioimaging & Data Visualization

Robert Murphy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States
Sean O'Donohue, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany

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Databases & Ontologies

Alex Bateman, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom
Suzanna Lewis, Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, Berkeley, United States

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Alex Bateman
Judy Blake
Christian Blaschke
Olivier Bodenreider
Kevin Bretonnel Cohen
Aaron Cohen
Nigel Collier
Dina Demner
Xose Fernandez

Rezarta Islamaj Dogan
Lars Juhl Jensen
Halil Kilicoglu
Jung-Jae Kim
Maria Liakata
Kenta Nakai
Francis Ouellette
Jong C. Park
Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann

Alan Ruttenberg
Michael Schroeder
Hagit Shatkay
Larisa Soldatova
Narayanaswamy Srinivasan
Padmini Srinivasan
Jian Su
Yoshimasa Tsuruoka
Karin Verspoor
Lana Yeganova

Disease Models & Epidemiology

Simon Kasif, Boston University, United States
Isaac Kohane, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge MA, United States

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Evolution & Comparative Genomics

Teresa Przytycka, NCBI, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, United States
Dannie Durand, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States

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Gene Regulation & Transcriptomics

David Gifford, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
Donna Slonim, Tufts University, Medford, United States

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Mass Spectrometry & Proteomics
Knut Reinert, Freie University Berlin, Germany
Nuno Bandiera, University of California, San Diego, United States

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Population Genomics
Russell Schwartz, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States
Eran Halperin, International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, United States

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Protein Interactions & Molecular Networks
Mona Singh, Princeton University, United States
Carl Kingsford, University of Maryland, College Park, United States

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Protein Structure & Function
Lenore Cowen, Tufts University, Medford, United States
Nir Ben-Tal, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

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

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Text Mining
Hagit Shatkay, University of Delaware, Newark, United States
Alfonso Valencia, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid Spain

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Highlights Committee

Burkhard Rost, Committee Co-Chair, Technical University Munich, Germany
Reinhard Schneider, Committee Co-Chair, University of Luxembourg
Joel Bader, John Hopkins University, United States
Nir Ben-Tal, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv Israel
Bonnie Berger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States
Erik Bongcam-Rudloff, Uppsala University, Uppsala Sweden
Terry Gaasterland, University of California, San Diego, United States
Paul Horton, Computational Biology Research Center, AIST, Japan
Toni Kazic, University of Missouri, Computer Science, 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, Jerusalem Israel
Yanay Ofran, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan Israel
Jacques Reifman, US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, 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

Special Interest Groups Committee

Hershel Safer, Committee Chair, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Mike Cherry, Stanford University, United States
Joaquin Dopazo, Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe (CIPF), Valencia, Spain
Jill Mesirov, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, United States
Nicky Mulder, University of Capetown, South Africa
Ivan Ovcharenko, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, United States

Posters Committee

Yana Bromberg, Committee Chair, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, United States
Hannah Carter, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States
Iddo Friedberg, Miami University, Oxford, United States
Tatyana Goldberg, Technical University Munich, Germany
Ben Jelen, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, United States
Hande Kucuk, University of Miami, United States
Biao Li, Buck Institute, Novato, United States
Magali Michaut, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Susanna Repo, EBI, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Venkata Satagopam, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
Andrea Schafferhans, Technical University Munich, Germany
Avner, Schlessinger, UCSF, San Francisco, United States
Stefan Senn, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, United States
Janita Thusberg, Buck Institute, Novato, United States
Tobias Wittkop, Buck Institute, Novato, United States
Chengsheng Zhu, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, United States

Student Council Symposium Committee

Alexander Goncearenco, Committee Chair, University of Bergen, Norway

Olga Botvinnik, Co-chair, University of California, Santa Cruz, United States

Anupama Jigisha, Finance Committee Chair, UNIGE, SIB, Switzerland

Cynthia Prudence, Booklet Chair, University of Rhode Island, United States

Priscila Grynberg, Program Chair, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Lorena Pantano Rubino, Travel Fellowships Chair, Center for Genomic Regulation, Spain

Umesh Kandal, Social Chair, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Avinash Kumar Shanmugam, Keynotes Chair, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States

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TECHNOLOGY TRACK COMMITTEE

Rodrigo Lopez, Committee Chair, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Christophe Blanchet, Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique, Lyon, France
Dominic Clark,EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
William Pearson, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, United States
Johannes Soeding, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, Germany

Tutorials Committee

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

Late Breaking Research Committee

Olga Troyanskaya, Chair, Princeton University, United States
Florian Markowetz, Co-chair, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, United Kingdom
Ioannis Xenarios, Co-chair, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Geneva, Switzerland
Edoardo Airoldi, Harvard University, Boston, United States
Niko Beerenwinkel, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Christina Curtis, University of Southern California, United States
Matt Hibbs, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, United States
Carl Kingsford, University of Maryland, College Park, United States
Xiaole Liu, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, United States
Bernard Moret, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
Chad Myers, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States
Predrag Radivojac, Indiana University, Bloomington, United States
Julio Saez-Rodriguez, EMBL-EBI, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Olga Vitek, Purdue University, West Lafayette, United States
Yinyin Yuan, Cambridge Research Institute, United Kingdom
Elena Zaslavsky, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, United States

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Workshops Committee

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

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