Committees

Steering Committee

Des Higgins, Honorary Conference Chair, School of Medicine & Medical Science, Conway Institute, Dublin, Ireland
Alex Bateman, Conference Co-chair, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), United Kingdom
Janet Kelso, Conference Co-chair, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
Diane E. Kovats, ISCB Executive Director, Fairfax, Virginia, United States
Steven Leard, ISCB Conferences Director, Edmonton, Canada
Christine Orengo, ISCB Conferences Committee Chair, University College London, United Kingdom
Burkhard Rost, Highlights Chair, Technical University Munich, Germany
Reinhard Schneider, ISCB Treasurer, University of Luxembourg
Alfonso Valencia, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain

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Scientific Organizing Committee

Applied Knowledge Exchange Sessions: Co-chairs: Fran Lewitter, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, United States and Michelle Brazas, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR), Toronto, Canada
Highlights Track Co-chairs: Burkhard Rost, Technical University Munich, Germany &
Reinhard Schneider, University of Luxembourg
Posters Co-chairs: Iddo Friedberg, Iowa State University, Ames, United States; and Yana Bromberg, Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, United States
Proceedings Co-chairs: Yves Moreau, KU Leuven, Belgium; and Niko Beerenwinkel, ETH Zurich, Basel, Switzerland
Scheduling Chair: Dietlind Gerloff, Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution (FfAME), Gainesville, United States
Special Interest Groups: Alan Christoffels, SANBI, University of Western Cape, South Africa, Christine Orengo, University College London, United Kingdom
Special Session Chair: Michal Linial, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Technology Track Chair: Rodrigo Lopez, European Bioinformatics Institute, EMBL-EBI, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Late Breaking Research: Francisco Melo Ledermann, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Art & Science Chair: Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain
Travel Fellowship: Guilherme Oliveira, FIOCRUZ, Belo Horizonte, Brazil


Conference Theme Chairs

Yana Bromberg (Theme: Disease)
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, United States

Janet Kelso (Theme: Data)
Bioinformatics Research Group Leader
Minerva Professor at the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Leipzig, Germany

Nicolas Le Novere (Theme: Systems)
Senior Group Leader, Computational Biology Group
Babraham Institute
Cambridge, United Kingdom

Martin Vingron (Theme: Genes)
Director, Bioinformatics
Department Computational Molecular Biology
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics
Berlin, Germany

Ioannis Xenarios (Theme: Proteins)
Director Swiss-Prot & Vital-IT group
SIB- Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Center for Integrative Genomics
University of Lausanne, Switzerland

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Applied Knowledge Exchange Sessions (AKES)

Co-chairs: Fran Lewitter, Whitehead Institute for Biomedial Research, United States and Michelle Brazas, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR), Toronto, Canada

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Art & Science Committee

Chair: Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain
Ricardo de Matos Simoes, Queen's University Belfast, Ireland
Alaa Abi-Haidar, Sorbonne Universities, France
Venkata Satagopam, Centre For Systems Biomedicine (LCSB), University of Luxembourg


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Highlights Committee

Co-Chairs: Burkhard Rost, Highlights Chair, Technical University Munich, Germany; and
Reinhard Schneider, 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
Yana Bromberg, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, United States
Terry Gaasterland, University of California, San Diego, United States
Yanay Ofran, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Paul Horton, Computational Biology Research Center, AIST, Tokyo 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 of Munich, Germany
Michal Linial, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Predrag Radivojac, Indiana University, Bloomington, United States
Mona Singh, Princeton University, United States
Donna Slonim, Tufts University, Medford, United States
Ioannis Xenarios, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

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Late Breaking Research Committee

Chair: Francisco Melo Ledermann, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Eduardo Agosin, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Daniel Almonacid, Universidad Andres Bello, Chile
Emidio Carpriotti, University of Alabama at Birmingham, United States
Lenore Cowen, Tufts University, Medford, United States
Damien Devos, Universidad Pablo de Olavide-CSIC, Sevilla, Spain
Susana Eyheramendi, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Fernando Faunes, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Evandro Ferrada, Santa Fe Institute, United States
Diego Ferreiro, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Carlos Lagos, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Rodrigo Lopez, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Marcelo Lopez-Lastra, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Marc A. Marti-Renom (ICREA), Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Barcelona, Spain
Rafael Medina, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Morton Nielsen, Technical University of Denmark
Gunnar Rätsch, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, United States
Gonzalo Riadi, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Manfred Sippl, University of Salzberg, Austria
Andreas Schüller, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Alex Slater, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Ludovic Vallier, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Dirk Walther, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam, Germany

Posters Committee

Chair: Iddo Friedberg, Iowa State University, Ames, United States; and
Co-chair: Yana Bromberg, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, United States

Frederic Bastian, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Titus Brown, UC Davis Genome Center, United States
Hannah Carter, University of California, San Diego, United States
Clair Colas, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, United States
Manuel Corpas, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Jeroen de Ridder, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Mikhail G. Dozmorov, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, United States
Nils Gehlenborg, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, United States
Tatyana Goldberg, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Yuxiang Jiang, Indiana University, Bloomington, United States
John Karro, Miami University, Oxford, United States
Hande Kucuk, University of Miami, United States
Fran Lewitter, Whitehead Institute of Biomedical Research, Cambridge United States
Yannick Mahlich, Technical University Munich, Germany
Jason McDermott, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States
James Morton, University of Colorado, United States
David Ream, Miami University, Oxford, United States
Jonas Reeb, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Venkata Satagopam, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Christine Sinoquet, University of Nantes, France
Eric Talevich, University of California, San Francisco, United States
Jie Tan, Dartmouth College, Hanover, United States
Peter Ung, Mount Sinia Hospital, New York, United States
Yan Zhang, Yale University, New Haven, United States

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Proceedings Committee

Co-chairs, Yves Moreau, Ku Leuven, Belgium; and
Niko Beerenwinkel, ETH Zurich, Basel, Switzerland

Applied Bioinformatics

Thomas Lengauer, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbucken, Germany
Christophe Dessimoz, University College London, United Kingdom

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Rolf Backofen
Mukul S. Bansal
Davide Bau
Robert Beiko
Asa Ben-Hur
Jeremy Buhler
Kevin Cohen
Noah Daniels
Susmita Datta
Christophe Dessimoz
Rod Do
Nadia El-Mabrouk
Oliver Eulenstein
Matteo Fumagalli
Nicholas Furnham
Laurent Gatto
Sampsa Hautaniemi

 Andreas Hildebrandt
Heng Huang
Curtis Huttenhower
Tamer Kahveci
Olga Kalinina
Carl Kingsford
Martin Krallinger
Thomas Lengauer
Ulf Leser
Po-Ru Loh
Florian Markowetz
Chad Myers
Bogdan Pasaniuc
Nico Pfeifer
Teresa Przytycka
Gunnar Rätsch
Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann

Ivo Sbalzarini
Sven-Eric Schelhorn
Marcel Schulz
Nives Skunca
Johannes Soeding
Jens Stoye
Asif Tamuri
Glenn Tesler
Fabio Vandin
Karin Verspoor
Jean-Philippe Vert
Chris Watkins
Amy Williams
Yu Xia
Ralf Zimmer

Bioimaging & Data Visualization

Robert Murphy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States

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Scott Acton
Anne Carpenter
Luis Pedro Coelho
Tom Freeman
Stephen McKenna		 Erik Meijering
Torsten Möller
Robert Murphy
Olaf Ronneberger
Ivo Sbalzarini		 Carolina Wählby
Thomas Walter
Jieping Ye

Databases, Ontologies, & Text Mining

Hagit Shatkay, University of Delaware, Newark, United States
Helen Parkinson, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Hinxton, United Kingdom

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Sophia Ananiadou
Cecilia Arighi
James Balhoff
Judy Blake
Olivier Bodenreider
Nigel Collier
Helen Cook
Simone Daminelli
Michel Dumontier
Juliane Fluck
Javier Garcia-Garcia
Rezarta Islamaj Dogan
Lars Juhl Jensen
Antonio Jimeno		 Siddhartha Jonnalagadda
Halil Kilicoglu
Jung-Jae Kim
Maria Kissa
Martin Krallinger
Florian Leitner
Hee-Jin Lee
Hongfang Liu
James Malone
Terry Meehan
Anika Oellrich
Jong C. Park
Helen Parkinson
Michael Schroeder		 Nigam Shah
Hagit Shatkay
Neil Smalheiser
Padmini Srinivasan
Morris Swertz
Manabu Torii
Yoshimasa Tsuruoka
Catalina O. Tudor
Francesco Vallania
Karin Verspoor
David Westergaard
Lana Yeganova



Disease Models & Epidemiology
Simon Kasif, Boston University, United States
Alice McHardy, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

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Martin Aryee
Eric Banks
Karsten Borgwardt
Hector Corrada Bravo
Tianxi Cai
Aurel Cami
Mark Crovella
Charles Delisi
Jonathan Dreyfuss
Brian Haas		 Benjamin Hescott
Eilinor Karlsson
Kirill Korolev
Joseph Lehar
Stan Letovsky
Manway Liu
Bud Mishra
Stefano Monti
T.M. Murali
Niranjan Nagarajan		 Peter Park
Nico Pfeifer
Teresa Przytycka
Tim Reddy
Jaques Reifman
Bernard Renard
Evan Snitkin
Chang-Juin Wu
Or Zuk


Evolution and Comparative Genomics
Bernard Moret, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
Louxin Zhang, National University of Singapore, Singapore

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Daniel Brown
Cedric Chauve
Miklos Csuros
Dan Gusfield
Daniel Huson
Tao Jiang
Yu Lin		 Erick Matsen
Siavash Mirarab
Bernard Moret
Luay Nakhleh
Ben Raphael
Marc Robinson-Rechavi
Sebastian Roch		 David Sankoff
Jens Stoye
Krister Swenson
Jijun Tang
Lusheng Wang
Louxin Zhang
Xiuwei Zhang


Gene Regulation & Transcriptomics

Uwe Ohler, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
Zohar Yakhini, Agilent, Haifa, Israel

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Edoardo M. Airoldi
Yoseph Barash
Tim Beissbarth
Panayiotis Takis Benos
Doron Betel
Richard Bonneau
Guillaume Bourque
Alan Boyle
Michael R. Brent
Harmen Bussemaker
Gal Chechik
Olof Emanuelsson
Jason Ernst
Terry Furey
David Gifford
Ivo Grosse		 Sampsa Hautaniemi
Haiyan Huang
Tommy Kaplan
Sunduz Keles
Ilona Kifer
Philip Kim
Anshul Kundaje
Dena Leshkowitz
Shaun Mahony
John Marioni
Florian Markowetz
Satoru Miyano
Alexandre Morozov
Leelavati Narlikar
William Stafford Noble
Uwe Ohler
Tim Reddy		 Markus Ringnér
Ron Shamir
Nathan Sheffield
Donna Slonim
Israel Steinfeld
Gary Stormo
Kai Tan
Amos Tanay
Achim Tresch
Erik van Nimwegen
Martin Vingron
Yu Xia
Zohar Yakhini
Yinyin Yuan
Deyou Zheng


Mass Spectrometry & Proteomics

Olga Vitek, Northeastern University, Boston, United States
Knut Reinert, Free University of Berlin, Germany

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Naomi Altman
Jan Baumbach
Ananth Grama
Henning Hermjakob
Jack Kellie		 Oliver Kohlbacher
Lennart Martens
Alexey Nesvizhskii
Steffen Neumann
Knut Reinert		 Bernhard Renard
Vera Vannoort
Olga Vitek
Sue Weintraub
Bing Zhang


Metabolic Networks
Hidde de Jong, INRIA, Grenoble, France
Bonnie Berger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States

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Bonnie Berger
Alexander Bockmayr
Hidde de Jong		 Paul Jensen
Christoph Kaleta
Andreas Kremling		 Isabel Rocha
Marie-France Sagot
Tomer Shlomi


Population Genomics
Russel Schwartz, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Jennifer Listgarten, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, United States

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David Balding
Mukul S. Bansal
Alexis Battle
Nick Furlotte
Bjarni Halldórsson
Dan He
Gabriel Hoffman
Andrew Johnson
Nebojsa Jojic		 Vladimir Jojic
Hyun Min Kang
Eimear Kenny
Bonnie Kirkpatrick
Jing Li
Christoph Lippert
Jennifer Listgarten
Iain Mathieson
Sara Mostafavi		 Pier Palamara
Laxmi Parida
Leopold Parts
Bogdan Pasaniuc
Itsik Pe’er
Snehit Prabhu
Barbara Rakitsch
Saharon Rosset
Russell Schwartz

Protein Interact & Molecular Networks
Nataša Pržulj, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Igor Jurisica, University of Toronto, Canada

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Patrick Aloy
Joel Bader
Ziv Bar-Joseph
Anastasia Baryshnikova
Jan Baumbach
Asa Ben-Hur
Bonnie Berger
Andreas Beyer
Juan Fernandez-Recio
Dario Ghersi
Debra Goldberg
Casey Greene
Henning Hermjakob		 Trey Ideker
Igor Jurisica
Gunnar Klau
Rune Linding
Kathleen Marchal
Tijana Milenkovic
Chad Myers
Christine Nardini
Florencio Pazos
Matteo Pellegrini
Natasa Przulj
Ben Raphael
Denise Scholtens		 Benno Schwikowski
Roded Sharan
Mona Singh
Lincold Stein
Uli Stelzl
Ulrich Stelzl
Michael Stumpf
Denis Thieffry
Jean-Philippe Vert
Michael Washburn
Ioannis Xenarios
Omer Yaveroglu
Hongyu Zhao

Protein Structure & Function
Anna Tramontano, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Torsten Schwede, University of Basel, Switzerland

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Jadwiga Bienkowska
Alexandre Bonvin
Lorenza Bordoli
Oliver Brock
Brian Chen
Thomas Dandekar
Charlotte Deane
Bruce Donald
Arne Elofsson
Andras Fiser
Dmitrij Frishman
Manuela Helmer-Citterich
Liisa Holm
Laurence Hurst		 Rachel Kolodny
Arun Konagurthu
Christopher Langmead
Keren Lasker
Yaohang Li
Olivier Lichtarge
Ryan Lilien
Liam Mcguffin
Julie Mitchell
Vincent Moulton
Vikas Nanda
Domenico Raimondo
Ram Samudrala
Avner Schlessinger		 Torsten Schwede
Yang Shen
Silvio Tosatto
Ilya Vakser
Allegra Via
Bjorn Wallner
Yusu Wang
Haim J. Wolfson
Yu Xia
Jinbo Xu
Dong Xu
Martin Zacharias
Jianyang Zeng
Yaoqi Zhou

RNA Bioinformatics
Hanah Margalit, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Jerome Waldispuhl, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

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Rolf Backofen
Danny Barash
Peter Clote
Robin Dowell
Irit Gat-Viks
Daniel Gautheret		 Ivo Hofacker
Fabrice Jossinet
Hanah Margalit
David Mathews
Irmtraud Meyer
Yann Ponty		 Elena Rivas
Igor Ulitsky
Jerome Waldispuhl
Zasha Weinberg
Eric Westhof
Michal Ziv-Ukelson

Sequence Analysis
Michael Brudno, University of Toronto, Canada
Siu-Ming Yiu, The University of Hong Kong, China

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Tatsuya Akutsu
Can Alkan
Alberto Apostolico
Vikas Bansal
C.Titus Brown
Michael Brudno
Jeremy Buhler
Francis Chin
Hector Corrada Bravo
Iman Hajirasouliha		 Fereydoun Hormozdiari
John Kececioglu
Sun Kim
Stefano Lonardi
Ion Mandoiu
Paul Medvedev
Ivan Ovcharenko
Knut Reinert
S.Cenk Sahinalp
Michael Schatz		 Alexander Schliep
Tetsuo Shibuya
Jared Simpson
Jens Stoye
Haixu Tang
Glenn Tesler
Jerome Waldispuhl
Siu Ming Yiu
Alex Zelikovsky
Daniel Zerbino

Special Interest Groups Committee

Chair, Alan Christoffels, SANBI, University of Western Cape, South Africa

Jill Mesirov, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, United States
Christine Orengo, University College London, United Kingdom
Guilherme Oliveira, FIOCRUZ- Minas, Brazil

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Special Sessions

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

Student Council Symposium

Chair: Katie Wilkins, Cornell University, United States
Co-chair: Farzana Rahman, Chair, University of South Wales, United Kingdom
Program Chair: Gonzalo Parra, Buenos Aires University, Argentina
Travel Fellowship Chair: Margherita Francescatto, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Tübingen, Germany
Finance Chair: Jakob Berg Jespersen, Technical University of Denmark
Communications Chair: Bart Cuypers, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Web Committee Chair: Mehedi Hassan, University of South Wales, United Kingdom
Committee Members:
Dan DeBlasio, University of Arizona, United States
Micaela Polay Espinoza, Sorbonne Universities, France
Carla Padilla Franzotti, National University of Tucuman, Argentina
Alexander Junge, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Nina Verstraete, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Technology Track

Chair: Rodrigo Lopez, Chair, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Christophe Blanchet, CNRS, Lyon-Gerland, France
Dominic Clark, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Andrew Cowley, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Desmond Higgins, Conway Institute, Dublin, Ireland
William Pearson, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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Travel Fellowship Committee

Chair: Guilherme Oliveira, FIOCRUZ- Minas, Brazil

Manuel Corpas, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, United Kingdom
Thomas Abeel, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Lonnie Welch, University of Ohio, Athens, United States
Venkata Satagopam, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Magali Michaut, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Ronnie Alves, The Computational Biology Institute(IBC), LIRMM, France
Gabriel Fernandes
Joel Arrais, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Alan Christoffels, University of Western Cape, South Africa
Lucia Peixoto, Washington State University, Spokane, United States
Ramy Karam Aziz, Cairo University, Egypt
Bent Petersen, Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Lyngby, Denmark
Rohit Ghai, Universidad Miguel Hernandez, San Juan de Alicante, Spain

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Workshops

Christine Orengo, University College London, United Kingdom

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