COMMITTEES
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Fabio Vandin, University of Padova, General Chair
Matteo Comin, University of Padova, Co-Organizer
Barbara Di Camillo, University of Padova, Co-Organizer
Leonardo Pellegrina, University of Padova, Publicity and Social Media Chair
Cinzia Pizzi, University of Padova, Co-Organizer
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Jian Peng, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, PC Chair
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Derek Aguiar, University of Connecticut, USA
Tatsuya Akutsu, Kyoto University, Japan
Can Alkan, Bilkent University, Department of Computer Engineering, Turkey
Mukul S. Bansal, University of Connecticut, USA
Niko Beerenwinkel, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Bonnie Berger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Sebastian Böcker, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
Christina Boucher, University of Florida, USA
Tony Capra, Vanderbilt University, USA
Cedric Chauve, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Brian Chen, Lehigh University, USA
Rayan Chikhi, CNRS, France
Hyunghoon Cho, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA
Lenore Cowen, Tufts University, USA
Barbara Di Camillo, University of Padova, Italy
Mohammed El-Kebir, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Nadia El-Mabrouk, University of Montreal, Canada
Xin Gao, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
Anthony Gitter, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Iman Hajirasouliha, Cornell University, USA
Bjarni Halldorsson, deCODE genetics and Reykjavik University, Iceland
Fereydoun Hormozdiari, University of California, Davis, USA
Tao Jiang, University of California, Riverside, USA
Daisuke Kihara, Purdue University, USA
Carl Kingsford, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Gunnar W. Klau, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
Mehmet Koyuturk, Case Western Reserve University, USA
Stefano Lonardi, UC Riverside, USA
Jianzhu Ma, Purdue University, USA
Florian Markowetz, University of Cambridge, UK
Hosein Mohimani, Carnegie Melon University, USA
Bernard Moret, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Sara Mostafavi, University of Washington, USA
Veli Mäkinen, University of Helsinki, Finland
William Stafford Noble, University of Washington, USA
Layla Oesper, Carleton College, USA
Laxmi Parida, IBM, USA
Itsik Pe'Er, Columbia University, USA
Jian Peng, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Cinzia Pizzi, University of Padova, Italy
Teresa Przytycka, National Center of Biotechnology Information, NLM, NIH, USA
Ben Raphael, Princeton University, USA
Knut Reinert, FU Berlin, Germany
Sushmita Roy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Cenk Sahinalp, National Cancer Institute, NIH, USA
Sriram Sankararaman, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Michael Schatz, Johns Hopkins University and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA
Alexander Schoenhuth, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Russell Schwartz, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Mingfu Shao, Penn State University, USA
Roded Sharan, School of computer science, Tel Aviv university, Israel
Ritambhara Singh, Brown University, USA
Mona Singh, Princeton University, USA
Sagi Snir, Institute of evolution, Israel
Jens Stoye, Bielefeld University, Germany
Fengzhu Sun, University of Southern California, USA
Wing-Kin Sung, Nuational University of Singapore, Singapore
Krister Swenson, CNRS, Université de Montpellier, France
Ewa Szczurek, University of Warsaw, Poland
Haixu Tang, Indiana University Bloomington, USA
Glenn Tesler, University of California San Diego, USA
Fabio Vandin, University of Padova, Italy
Martin Vingron, Max Planck Institut fuer molekulare Genetik, Germany
Jerome Waldispuhl, McGill University, Canada
Wei Wang University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Sebastian Will, University of Vienna, Austria
Jinbo Xu, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, USA
Min Xu, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Alex Zelikovsky, GSU, USA
Jianyang Zeng, Tsinghua University, China
Louxin Zhang, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Bo Li, Harvard Medical School
Jens Lagergren, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
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POSTERS COMMITTEE
Mohammed El-Kebir, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), USA, Chair.
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