ISMB 2008 Organization
CONFERENCE CHAIRBurkhard Rost, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS
Michal Linial, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Jill P. Mesirov, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
HONORARY CONFERENCE CHAIR
Thomas J. Hudson, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, ON, Canada
STEERING COMMITTEE
David Rocke, Steering Committee Chair & ISCB Treasurer, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
Thomas J. Hudson, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, ON, Canada
Janet Kelso, ISCB Conferences Committee Chair, Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
Steven Leard, ISCB Conferences Director, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Thomas Lengauer, ISMB/ECCB 2007 Conference Chair, Max-Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany
Michal Linial, Conference Co-chair, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
BJ Morrison McKay, ISCB Executive Officer, San Diego, CA, USA
Jill P. Mesirov, Conference Co-Chair, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
Burkhard Rost, Conference Chair, Columbia University, NY, USA
Reinhard Schneider, ISCB VP, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
Alfonso Valencia, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain
Shoshana Wodak, Sick Kids Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Technology Track: Rodrigo Lopez, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK
Highlights Track: Burkhard Rost, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Industry Relations: Reinhard Schneider, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
Posters: Marco Punta, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Scientific Papers: Alfonso Valencia, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid, Spain
Special Interest Groups: Hershel Safer, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Special Sessions: Michal Linial, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Travel Fellowships: Dietlind Gerloff, University of California Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Tutorials: Janet Kelso, Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
HIGHLIGHTS COMMITTEE
Burkhard Rost, Committee Chair, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Ivet Bahar, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Nir Ben-Tal, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Barbara Bryant, Millennium Pharmaceutical. Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA
Arne Elofsson, Stockholm University, Sweden
Jacquelyn Fetrow, Wake Forest University, Charlotte, NC, USA
Terry Gaasterland, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
Jaap Heringa, Centre for Integrative Bioinformatics, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
Ivo Hofacker, Institute for Theoretical Chemistry, University of Vienna, Austria
Trey Ideker, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
Toni Kazic, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
Michal Linial, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Jill P. Mesirov, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
William Noble, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Yanay Ofran, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Andrey Rzhetsky, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Vincent Schachter, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid, Spain
Reinhard Schneider, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
Mona Singh, Princeton University, NJ, USA
Anna Tramontano, University of Rome, Italy
Alfonso Valencia, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain
Ralf Zimmer, University of Munich, Germany
POSTERS COMMITTEE:
Yana Bromberg, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Matteo Dal Peraro, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Claudia Dall'Armi, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Marco DeVivo, Rib-X Pharmaceuticals, Inc., New Haven, CT, USA
Zsuzsanna Dosztanyi, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Markus Fischer, Columbia University, New York, NY,USA
Laszlo Kajan, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Andrew Kernytsky, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Rajesh Nair, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Marco Punta, Committee Chair, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Avner Schlessinger, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Ta-tsen Soong, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Kazimierz Wrzeszczynski, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS COMMITTEE:
Trey Ideker, University of California, San Diego CA, USA
Jill P. Mesirov, , Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
Hershel Safer, Committee Chair, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
SCIENTIFIC PAPERS -- AREA CHAIRS:
Sequence Analysis and Alignment
Serafim Batzoglou, Stanford University, CA, USA
Des Higgins, Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Ireland
Comparative Genomics
Roderic Guigo, Center for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain
David Sankoff, University of Ottawa, ON, Canada
Evolution and Phylogeny
Junhyong Kim, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, USA
Tandy Warnow, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
Gene Regulation and Transcriptomics
Olga Troyanskaya, Princeton University, NJ, USA
Zhaolei Zhang, University of Toronto, ON, Canada
Protein Structure and Function
Nir Ben-Tal, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Ora Schueler-Furman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Protein Interactions and Molecular Networks
Joel Bader, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Edward Marcotte, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
Text Mining
Mark Craven, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
Hagit Shatkay, School of Computing, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada
Databases and Ontologies
Helen Parkinson, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK
Robert Stevens, University of Manchester, UK
Other Bioinformatics Applications and methods
Janice Glasgow, School of Computing, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada
Richard H. Lathrop, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
Bioinformatics of Disease
Igor Jurisica, University of Toronto, ON, Canada
Anna Tramontano, University of Rome, Italy
TECHNOLOGY TRACK COMMITTEE:
Rodrigo Lopez, Committee Chair, European
Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK
Michael Hallett, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
Shoba Ranganathan, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
TUTORIALS COMMITTEE:
Janet Kelso, Committee Chair, Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
Fran Lewitter, Whitehead Institute of Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA, USA
VISUAL REFLECTIONS ON SCIENCE COMMITTEE
Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Manuel Corpas, European Bioinformatics Institute / University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Nils Gehlenborg, European Bioinformatics Institute / University of Cambridge, UK
SCIENTIFIC PAPER – PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Pankaj Agarwal
Tatsuya Akutsu
Elizabeth Allman
Sophia Ananiadou
Claus A. Andersen
Miguel Andrade
Kiyoshi Asai
David A. Bader
Gary Bader
Ivet Bahar
Christopher Baker
Pierre Baldi
Ziv Bar-Joseph
Alex Bateman
Serafim Batzoglou
Ardeshir Bayat
Asa Ben-Hur
Nir Ben-Tal
Tanya Berardini
Bonnie Berger
Judith Blake
Mathieu Blanchette
Christian Blaschke
Olivier Bodenreider
Erich Bornberg-Bauer
Ivan Borozan
Yana Bromberg
Michael Brudno
Barbara Bryant
Philipp Bucher
Jeremy Buhler
Albert Burger
Harmen Bussemaker
Chris Bystroff
Enrico Capobianco
Rita Casadio
Monica Chagoyen
Cedric Chauve
Nitesh Chawla
Luonan Chen
Hilary Clark
Kevin Cohen
Mark Craven
Miklos Csuros
Mehmet Dalkilic
Antoine Danchin
Thomas Dandekar
Vincent Danos
Aaron Darling
Francisco Domingues
Joaquin Dopazo
Michel Dumontier
Nadia El-Mabrouk
Lynda Ellis
Arne Elofsson
Niklas Eriksen
Jacquelyn S. Fetrow
Sarel Fleishman
Juliane Fluck
Andrew Fraser
Jan Freudenberg
Ken Fukuda
Mikhail Gelfand
Robert Gentleman
Andrew Gibson
Robert Giegerich
Mark Girolami
Janice Glasgow
Debra S. Goldberg
Julian Gough
Michael Gromiha
Roderic Guigo
Kris Gunsalus
Udo Hahn
Turkan Haliloglu
Michael Hallett
Henk Harkema
Susan Harrington
Midori Harris
Alexander Hartemink
Jaap Heringa
Tina Hernandez-Boussard
Des Higgins
Andreas Hildebrandt
Lynette Hirschman
Rose Hoberman
Charlie Hodgman
Robert Hoehndorf
Ivo Hofacker
Kay Hofmann
Mark Holder
Liisa Holm
Ian Holmes
Vasant Honavar
Simon Hubbard
Richard Hughey
Trey Ideker
Robert L. Jernigan
Tao Jiang
Cliff Joslyn
Igor Jurisica
Simon Kasif
Kazutaka Katoh
John Kececioglu
Philipp Khaithovich
Junhyong Kim
Toralf Kirsten
Steven H. Kleinstein
Oliver Kohlbacher
Rachel Kolodny
Michael Krauthammer
Tony Kusalik
Jens Lagergren
Franz Lang
Richard H. Lathrop
Doheon Lee
Jim Leebens-Mack
Boris Lenhard
Hans-Peter Lenhof
Suzanna Lewis
Hao Li
Maria Liakata
Jie Liang
Olivier Lichtarge
Ryan Lilien
Randy Linder
Jun Liu
Peter Lockhart
Phillip Lord
Jason Lu
Shiyong Lu_S
Yves A. Lussier
Jacek Majewski
Francois Major
Hiroshi Mamitsuka
Edward Marcotte
Hanah Margalit
Leonardo Marino-Ramirez
Florian Markowetz
Joel Martin
Mary Ann Martone
Michael Matthews
Brendan McConkey
Aoife McLysaght
M.Irmtraud Meyer
Gos Micklem
Satoru Miyano
Sean Mooney
Bernard Moret
Etsuko Moriyama
Quaid Morris
Vince Moulton
Parvin Mousavi
Chris Mungall
Arcady R. Mushegian
Chad Myers
Elena Nabieva
Kenta Nakai
Luay Nakhleh
Gavin Naylor
Goran Nenadic
Michael Nilges
Bill Noble
Cedric Notredame
Uwe Ohler
Modesto Orozco
David Page
Jong C. Park
Helen Parkinson
Florencio Pazos
Anders G. Pedersen
MatteoPellegrini
Bengt Persson
Mihaela Pertea
Graziano Pesole
Ron Pinter
Gianluca Pollastri
Mihai Pop
Tal Pupko
Jiang Qian
Shalom Rackovsky
Joerg Rahnenfuehrer
Domenico Raimondo
Magnus Rattray
Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann
Knut Reinert
John Rhodes
Isidore Rigoutsos
Thomas Rindflesch
Marylyn Ritchie
Luis Rocha
David Rocke
Paolo Romano
Pedro Romero
Noah Rosenberg
Pierre Rouze
Patrick Ruch
Alan Ruttenberg
Marie-France Sagot
Yasubumi Sakakibara
Oliver Sander
David Sankoff
Ulrike Sattler
Denise Scholtens
Michael Schroeder
Ora Schueler-Furman
Stefan Schuster
Russell Schwartz
Eran Segal
Nigam Shah
Ron Shamir
Roded Sharan
Hagit Shatkay
Solly Sieberts
Istvan Simon
Mona Singh
Saurabh Sinha
Arvind Sivasubramanian
Donna Slonim
Colin A. Smith
Larisa Soldatova
Ingolf Sommer
Rainer Spang
Einat Sprinzak
Peter F. Stadler
David J. States
Katherine St.John
Robert Stevens
Josh Stuart
Fengzhu Sun
Andreas Sundquist
Thodoros Topaloglou
Silvio Tosatto
Anna Tramontano
Olga Troyanskaya
Junichi Tsujii
Iosif Vaisman
Alfonso Valencia,
Harm van Bakel
Roel Verhaak
Karin Verspoor
Jean-Philippe Vert
Allegra Via
Jaak Vilo
Iain Wallace
San Ming Wang
Tandy Warnow
Wyeth Wasserman
Bertram Weiss
Simon Whelan
John Wilbur
Andreas Wilm
Anil Wipat
Haim J. Wolfson
Limsoon Wong
Chris Workman
Jonathan Wren
Cathy Wu
Yu Xia
Eric Xing
Yuzhen Ye
Paul Young
Hong Yu
Martin Zacharias
Elena Zaslavsky
Liqing Zhang
Zhaolei Zhang
Michael Zhang
Hongyu Zhao
Deyou Zheng
Huan-Xiang Zhou
Ralf Zimmer
Derrick Zwick
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