Committees

Steering Committee

Teresa Przytycka, Conference Co-chair, Head, NCBI /NLM/ NIH, Bethesda, United States
Pierre Baldi, Conference Co-chair, University of California, Irvine, United States
Janet Kelso, Conferences Committee Co-chair, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
Diane E. Kovats, ISCB Executive Director, Fairfax, United States
Steven Leard, ISCB Conferences Director, Edmonton, Canada
Christine Orengo, ISCB Conferences Committee Co-chair, University College London, United Kingdom
Alfonso Valencia, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain

Scientific Organizing Committee

Applied Knowledge Exchange Sessions (AKES): Chair: Michelle D. Brazas, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Canada
Posters Chair: Iddo Friedberg, Iowa State University, Ames, United States
Scheduling Chair: Dietlind Gerloff, Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution (FfAME), Gainesville, United States
Special Interest Groups Chair: Christine Orengo, University College London, United Kingdom
Special Sessions Chair: Michal Linial, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Technology Track Chair: Rodrigo Lopez, European Bioinformatics Institute, EMBL-EBI, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Travel Fellowship: Guilherme Oliveira, Vale Technology Institute, Brazil
Art & Science Chair: Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern, Bar-Ilan University, Safed, Israel

Theme Chairs

Data:
Alex Bateman, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Hinxton, United Kingdom
Bonnie Berger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States

Diseases:
Yana Bromberg, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, United States
Yves Moreau, KU Leuven, Belgium

Genes:
Russell Schwartz, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States
Jean-Philippe Vert, MINES ParisTech and Institut Curie, Paris, France

Proteins:
Ioannis Xenarios, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
David Jones, University College London, United Kingdom

Systems:
Niko Beerenwinkel, ETH Zurich, Basel, Switzerland
Donna Slonim, Tufts University, Medford, United States

Area Chairs

Applied Bioinformatics:
Florian Markowetz, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Stefano Lonardi, University of California, Riverside, United States

Bioimaging:
Robert Murphy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States
Charless Fowlkes, University of California, Irvine, United States

Databases, Ontologies & Text Mining:
Hagit Shatkay, University of Delaware, Newark, United States
Zhiyong Lu, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, United States

Disease Models & Epidemiology:
Trey Ideker, University of California, San Diego, United States
Maricel Kann, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, United States

Evolution & Comparative Genomics/Proteomics:
Bernard Moret, The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
Matthieu Blanchette, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Gene Regulation:
Uwe Ohler, Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
Cenk Sahinalp, Indiana University, Bloomington, United States

Gene/ Protein Sequence Analysis:
Siu Ming Yiu, The University of Hong Kong
Knut Reinert, Free University Berlin, Germany

Population Genomics:
Jennifer Listgarten, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, United States
Oliver Stegle, The European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Hinxton, United Kingdom

Protein Interactions & Molecular Networks:
Natasa Przulj, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Hidde de Jong, INRIA Grenoble - Rhone-Alpes, Montbonnot-Saint-Martin, France

Protein Structure & Function:
Lenore Cowen, Tufts University, Medford, United States
Jianlin Cheng, University of Missouri, Columbia, United States

RNA Bioinformatics:
Rolf Backofen, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany
Jerome Waldispuhl, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Applied Knowledge Exchange Sessions (AKES)

Chair: Michelle D. Brazas, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Canada
Co-chair: Fran Lewitter, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, United States
Co-chair: Patricia M. Palagi, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland

Posters Committee

Chair: Iddo Friedberg, Iowa State University, Ames, United States
Co-chair: Casey Greene, University of Pennsylvania, United States

Yana Bromberg, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, United States
Jacqueline Campbell, Iowa State University, United States
Hannah Carter, University of California San Diego, United States
Jeroen De Ridder, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Mikhail Dozmorov, Virginia Commonwealth University, United States
Tatyana Goldberg, Technical University Munich, Germany
John Hsieh, Iowa State University, United States
Yuxiang Jiang, Indiana University Bloomington, United States
John Karro, Miami University (Ohio), United States
Edda Kloppmann, Technische Universität München, Germany
Arjun Krishnan, Princeton University, United States
Hande Kucuk, University of Miami, United States
Asaf Levy, DOE Joint Genome Institute, United States
Yannick Mahlich, Technische Universität München, Germany
Jason Mcdermott, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (US Dept of Energy), United States
Magali Michaut, Netherlands Cancer Institute,
James Morton, University of California, San Diego, United States
Leighton Pritchard, The James Hutton Institute, United Kingdom
Jonas Reeb, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Surya Saha, Boyce Thompson Institute, United States
Venkata Pardhasaradhi Satagopam, University of Luxembourg,
Avner Schlessinger, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, United States
Eric Talevich, University of California, San Francisco, United States
Jie Tan, Dartmouth College, United States
Peter Ung, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States
Aaron Wong, Princeton University, United States
Victoria Yao, Princeton University, United States
Yan Zhang, The Ohio State University, United States
Jian Zhou, Princeton University, United States
Chengsheng Zhu, Rutgers University, United States

Special Interest Groups Committee

Chair: Christine Orengo, University College London, United Kingdom
Co-chair: Alan Christoffels, SANBI, University of Western Cape, South Africa

Special Sessions

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

Technology Track

Chair: Rodrigo Lopez, Chair, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Christophe Blanchet, CNRS-UMS, France
Yana Bromberg, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, United States
Dominic Clark, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Desmond Higgins, Conway Institute, Dublin, Ireland
Claire O'Donovan, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Sandra Orchard, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
William Pearson, University of Virginia School of Medicine, United States

Travel Fellowship Committee

Chair: Guilherme Oliveira, Vale Technology Institute, Brazil
Co-chair: Lucia Peixoto, Washington State University, Spokane, United States
Ronnie Alves, Vale Institute of Technology, Brazil
Joel Arrais, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Marcelo Brandao, UNICAMP, Brazil
Alan Christoffels, University of Western Cape, South Africa
Rohit Ghai, Institute of Hydrobiology CAS, Czech Republic
Magali Michaut, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Mark Pauley, University of Nebraska, United States
Olena Piontkivska, Kent State University, United States
Brent Petersen, Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Lyngby, Denmark
Neil Sarkar, Brown University, Providence, United States
Venkata Pardhasaradhi Satagopam, University of Luxembourg
Clare Sansom, Birkbeck College London, United Kingdom
Andreas Schuller, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago
Guenter Tusch, Grand Valley State University, Alledale, United States

Art & Science Committee

Chair: Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern, Bar-Ilan University, Safed, Israel
Venkata Satagopam, Luxembourg Centre For Systems Biomedicine (LCSB), University of Luxembourg
Ricardo de Matos Simoes, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, United States

Student Council Symposium Committee

Chair: Bart Cuypers, Biomedical Informatics Research Center Antwerp (Biomina), University of Antwerp, Antwerp University Hospital, Belgium
Co-Chair:Ben Siranosian, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Brown University, United States
Venkata Satagopam, Luxembourg Centre For Systems Biomedicine (LCSB), University of Luxembourg
Finance Chair: Ashley Mae Conard, Brown University, DePauw University, United States
Web Chair: Mehedi Hassan, University of South Wales, United Kingdom
Outreach Chair: Nazeefa Fatima, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom
Outreach Committee: Pankhuri Wanjari, The University of Texas at El Paso, United States
Travel Fellowships Chair: Melissa Woghiren, University of Windsor, Canada
Student Council Executive Team Representative: Anupama Jigisha, University of Geneva, Switzerland

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