Committees
- Steering Committee
- Proceedings Committee
- Area Chairs - COSIs
- Posters Committee
- Technology Track Committee
- Travel Fellowship Committee
- Tutorials Committee
- Student Council
- COSI Leadership
ISMB 2018 Steering Committee
Yana Bromberg, Proceedings Co-chair, Rutgers University, United States
Bruno Gaeta, Treasurer, University of New South Wales, Australia
Janet Kelso, Conference Advisory Council Co-chair, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany
Diane E. Kovats, ISCB Executive Director, United States
Steven Leard, ISMB Conference Director, Canada
Thomas Lengauer, President, ISCB, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany
Christine Orengo, Conference Co-chair, University College London, United Kingdom
Predrag Radivojac, Proceedings Co-chair, Indiana University, United States
Gary Stormo, Honorary Conference Chair, Washington University Medical School in St Louis, United States
Alfonso Valencia, Past-President, ISCB, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
Tandy Warnow, Conference Co-chair, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
Proceedings Committee
Yana Bromberg, Co-chair, Rutgers University, United States
Predrag Radivojac, Co-chair, Indiana University, United States
Area Chairs:
Studies of Phenotypes and Clinical Applications
Anna Goldenberg, University of Toronto, Canada
Comparative and Functional Genomics
Carl Kingsford, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Bioinformatics Education
Fran Lewitter, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, United States
Genomic Variation Analysis
Sriram Sankararaman, University of California, Los Angeles, United States
Bioinformatics of Microbes and Microbiomes
Mihai Pop, University of Maryland, United States
Population Genomics and Molecular Evolution
Nadia El-Mabrouk, University of Montreal, Canada
Macromolecular Sequence, Structure, and Function
Charlotte Deane, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Systems Biology and Networks
Roded Sharan, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Genome Privacy and Security
Haixu Tang, Indiana University, United States
Area Chairs - COSIs:
Rolf Backhofen, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Germany (RNA)
Jan Baumbach, TU Munich, Germany
Emidio Capriotti, University of Bologna, Italy (VarI)
Ana Conesa, Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe, Spain (HiTSeq)
Christophe Dessimoz, University of Lausanne, Switzerland (Evolution)
Jeremy Goecks, Oregon Health & Science University, United States (BioVis)
Paweł P Łabaj, Austrian Academy of Sciences and Jagiellonian University, Poland (CAMDA)
Florian Markowetz, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (MLCSB)
Nicola Mulder, University of Cape Town, South Africa (Education)
Alice McHardy, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Germany (Microbiome)
Natasa Przulj, University College, London, United Kingdom (NetBio)
Venkata Satagopam, Université du Luxembourg (TransMed)
Saurabh Sinha, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, United States (RegSys)
Karin Verspoor, University of Melbourne, Australia (Bio-Ontologies)
Olga Vitek, Northeastern University, United States (CompMS)
Abstract Chairs
3DSIG: Structural Bioinformatics and Computational Biophysics
Phil Bourne, University of Virginia, United States
Charlotte Deane, Oxford University, United Kingdom
Rafael Najmanovich, University of Montreal, Canada
Bio-Ontologies
Michel Dumontier, Maastricht University, Netherlands
Robert Hoehndorf, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology, Saudi Arabia
Philippe Rocca-Serra, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Karin Verspoor, University of Melbourne, Australia
BioVis: Biological Data Visualizations
Thomas Höllt, TU Delft, Netherlands
Michael Krone, University of Stuttgart, Germany
CAMDA: Critical Assessment of Massive Data Analysis
David Kreil, Boku University Vienna, Austria
Paweł P Łabaj, Austrian Academy of Sciences, and Jagiellonian University, Poland
CompMS: Computational Mass Spectrometry
Viktoria Dorfer, FH Hagenberg, Austria
William S Noble, U Washington, United States
Oliver Kohlbacher, U of Tübingen, Germany
Education: Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Education and Training
Nicola Mulder, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Russell Schwartz, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
EvolCompGen: Evolution & Comparative Genomics Evolution and Comparative Genomics
Lars Arvestad, Stockholm University, Sweden
Wataru Iwasaki, University of Tokyo, Japan
Function: Gene and Protein Function Annotation
Iddo Friedberg, Iowa State University, United States
Predrag Radivojac, Indiana University Bloomington, United States
Mark N Wass, University of Kent, United Kingdom
HitSeq: High Throughput Sequencing Algorithms & Applications
Can Alkan, Bilkent University,Turkey
Ana Conesa, University of Florida, United States
Francisco M. De La Vega, Stanford University; Fabric Genomics, United States
Dirk J. Evers, Dr. Dirk Evers Consulting, Germany
Kjong Lehmann, ETH-Zürich, Switzerland
Quaid Morris, University of Toronto, Canada
Gunnar Rätsch, ETH-Zürich, Switzerland
Microbiome
Aaron Darling, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Alice McHardy, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Germany
Mihai Pop, University of Maryland, United States
Thomas Rattei, University of Vienna, Austria
Alexander Sczyrba, Bielefeld University, Germany
MLCSB: Machine Learning in Computational and Systems Biology
Florian Markowetz, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Oliver Stegle, European Bioinformatics Institute, United Kingdom
NetBio: Network Biology
Alex Pico, Gladstone Institutes, United States
Natasa Przulj, University College London, United Kingdom
RegSys: Regulatory and Systems Genomics
Stein Aerts, University of Leuven, Belgium
Julia Zeitlinger, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, United States
RNA: Computational RNA Biology
Yoseph Barash, University of Pennsylvania, United States
Eduardo Eyras, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Klemens Hertel, University of California, Irvine, United States
SysMod: Computational Modeling of Biological Systems
Andreas Draeger, University of Tübingen, Germany
Tomas Helikar, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, United States
Nicolas Le Novere, Babraham Institute, United Kingdom
TransMed: Translational Medicine Informatics & Applications
Bissan Al-Lazikani, The Institute of Cancer Research, United Kingdom
Wei Gu, Luxembourg Centre For Systems Biomedicine
Venkata Satagopam, University of Luxembourg
VarI: Variant Interpretation
Yana Bromberg, Rutgers, United States
Hannah Carter, UCSD, United States
Emidio Capriotti, University of Bologna, Italy
General Computational Biology
Laxmi Parida, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, United States
Posters Committee
Chair: Casey Greene, University of Pennsylvania, United States
Co-chair: Arjun Krishnan, Michigan State University, United States
Technology Track Committee
Chair: Dominic Clark, EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, United Kingdom
Co-chair: Jean-Francois Tomb, University of Delaware, United States
Travel Fellowship Committee
Chair: Lucia Peixoto, Washington State University, United States
Co-chair: Catherine Putonti, Loyola University Chicago, United States
Tutorials Committee
Chair: Michelle D. Brazas, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Canada
Co-chair: Lonnie Welch, Ohio University, United States
Student Council Chairs
Yana Bromberg, Rutgers University, United States
Eli Draizen, National Institutes of Health, United States
Numrah Fadra, University of Minnesota , Mayo Clinic
Predrag Radivojac, Indiana University, United States
Communities of Special Interest (COSI) Leadership
ISCB COSI Committee Chair
Christine Orengo
ISCB Board of Directors COSI Representative
Francisco De La Vega
3DSIG: Structural Bioinformatics and Computational Biophysics
Rafael Najmanovich
BIOINFO-CORE
Madelaine Gogol
Brent Richter
Bio-Ontologies
Michel Dumontier
Karin Verspoor
BioVis: Biological Data Visualizations
Jan Aerts
Nils Gehlenborg
CAMDA: Critical Assessment of Massive Data Analysis
David Kreil
Pawel Labaj
CompMS: Computational Mass Spectrometry
Oliver Kohlbacher
Education: Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Education and Training
Teresa Attwood
Fran Lewitter
Lonnie Welch
EvolCompGen: Evolution & Comparative Genomics
Christophe Dessimoz
Function: Gene and Protein Function Annotation
Iddo Friedberg
HiTSeq: High Throughput Sequencing Algorithms & Applications
Francisco De La Vega
Dirk Evers
IRB: Integrative RNA Biology
Yoseph Barash
Alex Bateman
JPI: Junior Principal Investigators
Casey Greene
Lucia Peixoto
Microbiome
Alice McHardy
Thomas Rattei
Alexander Sczyrba
MLCSB: Machine Learning in Computational and Systems Biology
Karsten Borgwardt
Katharina Heinrich
NetBio: Network Biology
Alexander Pico
Natasa Przulj
OBF/BOSC: Open Bioinformatics Foundation/Bioinformatics Open Source Conference
Peter Cock
Nomi Harris
RegSys: Regulatory and Systems Genomics
Manolis Kellis
Lonnie Welch
SysMod: Computational Modeling of Biological Systems
Tomáš Helikar
Nicolas Le Novre
TransMed: Translational Medicine Informatics & Applications
Venkata Satagopam
VarI: Variant Interpretation
Hannah Carter
Emidio Capriotti
Yana Bromberg
