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Track & Abstract Chairs

3DSIG: Structural Bioinformatics and Computational Biophysics

Rafael Najmanovich, University of Montreal, Canada
Douglas Pires, Exscientia, United Kingdom 
R. GOnzalo Parra, Barceolna Supercomputing Center, Spain

Bio-Ontologies

Tiffany Callahan, University of Colorado Denver, United States
Robert Hoehndorf, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology, Saudi Arabia

BioInfo-Core

Madelaine Gogol, Stowers Institute, United States
Shannan Ho Sui, Harvard School of Public Health, United States
Alberto Riva, Human Technopole, Italy
Brent Richter, Harbinger Health, United States

Bioinformatics in Canada

Aïda Ouangraoua, University of Sherbrooke, Canada
Francis Ouellette, Origin Bioinformatics, Canada

BioVis: Biological Data Visualizations

Jan Byška, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Qianwen Wang, Harvard Medical School, United States

BOSC: Bioinformatics Open Source Conference

Nomi L. Harris (Chair), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States
Karsten Hokamp, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Deepak Unni, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland
Hervé Ménager, Institut Pasteur, France
Jason Williams, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, United States
Monica Munoz-Torres, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, United States
Swapnil Sawant, Phoenix Bioinformatics, United States

CAMDA: Critical Assessment of Massive Data Analysis

Joaquin Dopazo, Fundación Progreso y Salud, Spain
David P Kreil, Boku University Vienna, Austria
Paweł P Łabaj, Austrian Academy of Sciences, and Jagiellonian University, Poland
Wenzhong Xiao, Harvard Medical School, United States

Computational and Systems Immunology

Ferhat Ay, La Jolla Institute for Immunology, United States
Jishnu Das, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, United States
Hatice Ulku Osmanbeyoglu, University of Pittsburgh, United States
Yuri Pritykin, Princeton University, United States

CompMS: Computational Mass Spectrometry

Wout Bittremieux, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Timo Sachsenberg, University of Tübingen, Germany
Isabell Bludau, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany
Lindsay Pino, University of Pennsylvania, United States
Marie Brunet, Shrebrooke University, Canada

Education: Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Education and Training

Russell Schwartz, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Patricia M. Palagi, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland
Wai Keat Yam, International Medical University, Malaysia 

Equity and Diversity in COmputational Biology Research

Casey Greene, University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Campus, United States
Alejandra Medina Rivera, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico

EvolCompGen: Evolution & Comparative Genomics

Nadia El-Mabrouk, University of Montreal, Canada
Janani Ravi, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, United States

Function: Gene and Protein Function Annotation

Iddo Friedberg, Iowa State University, United States
Mark Wass, University of Kent, United Kingdom
Ana M. Rojas Mendoza, Centro Andauz de Biologica del Dessarrolo, Spain
Dukka KC, Michigan Technological University, United States

HiTSeq: High Throughput Sequencing Algorithms & Applications

Can Alkan, Bilkent University,Turkey
Ana Conesa, Spanish National Research Council, Spain; and University of Florida, Gainesville, United States
Francisco M. De La Vega, Stanford University; and Tempus Genomics, United States
Dirk Evers, Dr. Dirk Evers Consulting, Germany
Kjong Lehmann, Centre of Medical Technology, Germany
Christina Boucher, University of Florida, Gainesville, United States

iRNA: Integrative RNA Biology

Michelle Scott, University of Sherbrooke, Canada
Athma Pai, University of Massachusetts Medical School, United States
Hagen Tilgner, Weill Cornell Medicine, United States
Maayan Salton, Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, Israel

Microbiome

Alice McHardy, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Germany
Alexander Sczyrba, Bielefeld University, Germany

MLCSB: Machine Learning in Computational and Systems Biology

Yvan Saeys, Ghent University, Belgium
Maria Brbic, EPFL, Switzerland

NetBio: Network Biology

Anaïs Baudot, CNRS - INSERM - AMU, France
Chad Myers, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, United States
Deisy Morselli Gysi, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba - Paraná, Brazil
Scooter Morris, University of California, San Francisco, United States
Martina Summer-Kutmon, Maastricht University, Netherlands

RegSys: Regulatory and Systems Genomics

Shaun Mahony, Penn State University, United States
Anthony Mathelier, University of Oslo, Norway
Alejandra Medina-Rivera, National Autonomous University of Mexico
Lonnie Welch (Ex Officio), Ohio University, United States
Alejandra Medina-Rivera, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico

SysMod: Computational Modeling of Biological Systems

Shaimaa Bakr, Stanford University, United States
Matteo Barberis, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
Chiara Damiani, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Reihaneh Mostolizadeh, University of Tübingen, Germany
Bhanwar Lal Puniya, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, United States
Meghna Verma, AstraZeneca, United States

Text Mining

Robert Leaman, NCBI/NLM/NIH, United States
Lars Juhl Jensen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Zhiyong Lu, NCBI/NLM/NIH, United States

TransMed: Translational Medicine Informatics & Applications

Venkata Satagopam, University of Luxembourg
Maria Secrier, University College London, United Kingdom
Irina Balaur, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Irene Ong, Universtiyt of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
Bosdriesz Evert, VU Amsterdamn, Netherlands
Heba Sailem, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Mansoor Saqi, Institute of Cancer Research, United Kingdom

VarI: Variant Interpretation

Emidio Capriotti, University of Bologna, Italy
Hannah Carter, University of California, San Diego, United States
Antonio Rausell, Imagine Institute for Genetic Diseases, France

General Computational Biology

Gary Bader, University of Toronto, Canada
Iman Hajirasouliha, Cornell University, United States

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