Steering Committee

• Vineet Bafna, UC San Diego, USA
• Bonnie Berger, MIT, USA (*Chair)
• Eleazar Eskin, University of California Los Angeles, USA
• Teresa Przytycka, NCBI, NIH, USA
• Roded Sharan, Tel Aviv University, Israel
• Cenk Sahinalp, NCI, NIH, USA
• Martin Vingron, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany

  Program Chair

• Itsik Pe’er, Columbia University, USA

  Program Committee

• Derek Aguiar, University of Connecticut, USA
• Tatsuya Akutsu, Kyoto University, Japan
• Can Alkan, Bilkent University, Turkey
• Srinivas Aluru, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
• Mukul S. Bansal, University of Connecticut, USA
• Niko Beerenwinkel, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• Bonnie Berger, MIT, USA
• Sebastian Böcker, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
• Christina Boucher, University of Florida, USA
• Dongbo Bu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
• Barbara Di Camillo, University of Padova, Italy
• Sha Cao, Indiana University School of Medicine, USA
• Cedric Chauve, Simon Fraser University, Canada
• Brian Chen, Lehigh University, USA
• Rayan Chikhi, Institut Pasteur in Paris, France
• Lenore Cowen, Tufts University, USA
• Mohammed El-Kebir, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
• Nadia El-Mabrouk, University of Montreal, Canada
• Travis Gagie, Diego Portales University, Chile
• Xin Gao, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
• Anthony Gitter, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
• Faraz Hach, University of British Columbia, Canada
• 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
• Tal Korem, Columbia University, USA
• Mehmet Koyuturk, Case Western Reserve University, USA
• Gregory Kucherov, CNRS/LIGM, France
• Jens Lagergren, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
• Ben Langmead, Johns Hopkins University, USA
• Jingyi Jessica Li, University of California Los Angeles, USA
• Wei Vivian Li, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA
• Stefano Lonardi, University of California Riverside, USA
• Jian Ma, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Jianzhu Ma, Peking University, China
• Wenxiu Ma, University of California Riverside, USA
• Veli Mäkinen, University of Helsinki, Finland
• Salem Malikic, NCI, NIH, USA
• Florian Markowetz, University of Cambridge, UK
• Bernard Moret, EPFL, Switzerland
• Onur Mutlu, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• Luay Nakhleh, Rice University, USA
• William Stafford Noble, University of Washington, USA
• Ibrahim Numanagic, University of Victoria, Canada
• Layla Oesper, Carleton College, USA
• Yaron Orenstein, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
• Laxmi Parida, IBM, USA
• Cinzia Pizzi, University of Padova, Italy
• Teresa Przytycka, NCBI, NLM, NIH, USA
• Ben Raphael, Princeton University, USA
• Knut Reinert, FU Berlin, Germany
• Cenk Sahinalp, National Cancer Institute, NIH, USA
• Sriram Sankararaman, University of California Los Angeles, USA
• Michael Schatz, Johns Hopkins University, USA
• Alexander Schoenhuth, Bielefeld University, Germany
• Russell Schwartz, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Mingfu Shao, Penn State University, USA
• Roded Sharan, Tel Aviv university, Israel
• Ritambhara Singh, Brown University, USA
• Sagi Snir, Institute of evolution, Israel
• Jens Stoye, Bielefeld University, Germany
• Fengzhu Sun, University of Southern California, USA
• Wing-Kin Sung, National University of Singapore, Singapore
• Krister Swenson, CNRS, Université de Montpellier, France
• Haixu Tang, Indiana University Bloomington, USA
• Glenn Tesler, UC San Diego, USA
• Tamir Tuller, Tel Aviv University, Israel
• Fabio Vandin, University of Padova, Italy
• Martin Vingron, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany
• Jerome Waldispuhl, McGill University, Canada
• Sheng Wang, University of Washington, USA
• Wei Wang, University of California Los Angeles, USA
• Tandy Warnow, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
• Sebastian Will, EPFL, Switzerland
• Damian Wójtowicz, NCBI, NIH, USA
• Jinbo Xu, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, USA
• Min Xu, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Yuedong Yang, Sun Yet-sen University, China
• Yun William Yu, University of Toronto, Canada
• Jianyang Zeng, Tsinghua University, China
• Chi Zhang, Indiana University, School of Medicine, USA
• Louxin Zhang, National University of Singapore, Singapore
• Xiuwei Zhang, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
• Jie Zheng, Shanghai Tech University, China

  Highlights Chair

• Sushmita Roy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

  Keynote Chair

• Ewa Szczurek, University of Warsaw, Poland

  Posters Chair

• Yaron Orenstein, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Isreal

  Satellite Chairs

• Sriram Sankararaman, University of California Los Angeles, USA (general chair; Genetics chair)
• Hannah Carter, UC San Diego, USA (CCB chair)
• Simone Zaccaria, University College London, UK (CCB chair)
• Dannie Durand, Carnegie Mellon University, USA (CG chair)
• Lingling Jin, University of Saskatchewan, Canada (CG chair)
• Siavash Mirarab, UC San Diego, USA, (CG chair)
• Gillian Belbin, Mt. Sinai Institute for Genomics Health, USA (Genetics chair)
• Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland (Genetics chair)
• Can Alkan, Bilkent University, Turkey (Seq chair)
• Ben Langmead, John’s Hopkins University, USA (Seq chair)
• Niema Moshiri, UC San Diego, USA (BE chair)
• Remo Rohs, University of Southern California, USA (USC QCB chair) 
• Fengzhu Sun, University of Southern California, USA (USC QCB chair)

  Organizing committee

• Vineet Bafna, UC San Diego, USA
• Vikas Bansal, UC San Diego, USA
• Jocelyn Bernardo, UC San Diego, USA
• Melissa Gymrek, UC San Diego, USA
• Siavash Mirarab, UC San Diego, USA
• Glenn Tesler, UC San Diego, USA
• Kaiyuan Zhu, UC San Diego, USA