18th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
April 2-5, 2014
Steering Committee
Vineet Bafna, University of California, San Diego, USA
Serafim Batzoglou, Stanford University, USA
Bonnie Berger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Sorin Istrail, Brown University, USA
Michal Linial, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Martin Vingron, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany (Chair)
Conference Chairs
Panayiotis (Takis) Benos, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Russell Schwartz, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Program Chair
Roded Sharan, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Posters Chair
Carl Kingsford, Carnegie Mellon University
Program Committee
Tatsuya Akutsu, Kyoto University, Japan
Max Alekseyev, University of South Carolina, USA
Joel Bader, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Vineet Bafna, University of California, San Diego, USA
Nuno Bandeira, University of California, San Diego, USA
Mukul S. Bansal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Ziv Bar-Joseph, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Serafim Batzoglou, Stanford University, USA
Asa Ben-Hur, Colorado State University, USA
Bonnie Berger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Sebastian Bocker, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
Michael Brudno, University of Toronto, Canada
Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen, La Trobe University, Australia
Ting Chen, University of Southern California, USA
Brian Chen, Lehigh University, USA
Chakra Chennubhotla, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Benny Chor, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Lenore Cowen, Tufts University, USA
Vincent Danos, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
Minghua Deng, Peking University, China
Colin Dewey, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Nadia El-Mabrouk, University of Montreal, Canada
Sarel Fleishman, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Irit Gat-Viks, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Mikhail Gelfand, Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russia
David Gifford, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Assaf Gottlieb, Stanford University, USA
Bjarni Halldorsson, Reykjavik University, Iceland
Wen-Lian Hsu. Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Sorin Istrail, Brown University, USA
Rui Jiang, Tsinghua University, China
Tao Jiang, University of California, Riverside, USA
Igor Jurisica, Ontario Cancer Institute, Canada
Tamer Kahveci, University of Florida, USA
Simon Kasif, Boston University, USA
Seyoung Kim, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Carl Kingsford, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Mehmet Koyuturk, Case Western Reserve University, USA
Rui Kuang, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, USA
Jens Lagergren, Science for Life Laboratory, Sweden
Hyunju Lee, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea
Michal Linial, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Jinze Liu, University of Kentucky, USA
Stefano Lonardi, University of California, Riverside, USA
Tijana Milenkovic, University of Notre Dame, USA
Satoru Miyano, University of Tokyo, Japan
Bernard Moret, EPFL, Switzerland
T. M. Murali, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA
William Stafford Noble, University of Washington, USA
Arlindo Oliveira, Lisbon University, Portugal
Laxmi Parida, IBM T J Watson Research Center, USA
Itsik Pe'er, Columbia University, USA
Teresa Przytycka, National Institutes of Health, USA (Highlights Chair)
Ben Raphael, Brown University, USA
Knut Reinert, Free Universitat Berlin, Germany
Marie-France Sagot, University Lyon 1, France
S. Cenk Sahinalp, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Dina Schneidman-Duhovny, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Denise Scholtens, Northwestern University Medical School, USA
Russell Schwartz, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Mona Singh, Princeton University, USA
Andrew Smith, University of Southern California, USA
Berend Snel, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Kai Tan, University of Iowa, USA
Alfonso Valencia, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Spain
Fabio Vandin, Brown University, USA
Jean-Philippe Vert, Ecole des Mines de Paris, France
Martin Vingron, Max Planck Institut, Germany
Lusheng Wang, City University of Hong Kong
Tandy Warnow, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Haim J. Wolfson, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Limsoon Wong, National University of Singapore
Xiaohui Xie, University of California, Irvine, USA
Jinbo Xu, University of Chicago, USA
Dong Xu, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA
Yuzhen Ye, Indiana University, USA
Esti Yeger-Lotem, Ben Gurion University, Israel
Sungroh Yoon, Seoul National University, South Korea
Louxin Zhang, National University of Singapore
Xuegong Zhang, Tsinghua University, China
Hongyu Zhao, Yale University, USA