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            			 | Vineet Bafna |  UC San Diego |  
				 | Bonnie Berger (chair) |  Massachusetts Institute of Technology |  
				 | Eleazar Eskin |  University of California Los Angeles |  
				 | Teresa Przytycka |  NCBI, NIH |  
				 | Cenk Sahinalp |  NCI, NIH |  
				 | Roded Sharan |  Tel Aviv University |  
				 | Martin Vingron |  Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics |  
																
          				
 
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            			 | Haixu Tang |  Indiana University |  
          				 
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            			 | Can Alkan (co-chair) |  Bilkent University |  
				 | Attila Gürsoy (co-chair) |  Koç University |  
				 | Publicity | 
			             | A. Ercüment Çiçek |  Bilkent University |  
				 | Registration | 
 			             | Tunca Doğan |  Hacettepe University |  
				 | Satellites | 
			             | Arzucan Özgür |  Boğaziçi University |  
				 | Publication | 
  			             | Öznur Taştan |  Sabancı University |  
		           		 
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                   Highlights Chair | 
		            	 
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                   | Ferhat Ay | La Jolla Institute for Immunology | 
                   
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                   Keynote Chair | 
                   
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                   | Gamze Gürsoy | Columbia University / NYGC | 
		            	 
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                   Posters Chairs | 
                   
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                   | Iman Hajirasouliha | Weill Cornell Medicine | 
                   | Oğuzhan Külekçi | İstanbul Technical University | 
		            	 
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                   Travel Fellowships Chairs | 
                   
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                   | Gürkan Bebek | Case Western Reserve University | 
                   | Arif Harmancı | University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston | 
                   
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                   Satellite Chairs | 
                   
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                   RECOMB-Seq | 
                   | Broňa Brejová | Comenius University in Bratislava | 
		    | A. Ercüment Çiçek | Bilkent University | 
	   
		    
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                   RECOMB-CG | 
                   | Katharina Jahn | Freie Universität Berlin | 
                   | Tomáš Vinař | Comenius University in Bratislava | 
		    
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                   RECOMB-Genetics | 
                   | Emilia Huerta-Sanchez | Brown University | 
                 
                   | Nick Mancuso | University of Southern California | 
                  
                   | Sriram Sankararaman | University of California, Los Angeles | 
		    
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    		   RECOMB-CCB |  | 
                   | Giulio Caravagna | University of Trieste | 
                 
                   | Gabriele Schweikert | University of Dundee | 
                  
		   
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		           		 Student Volunteers (alphabetical) | 
		           		 
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		           		 Öykü Zeynep Arslan
  | Sabancı University
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		           		 Akmuhammet Ashyralyyev
  | Bilkent University
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		           		 Mahmud Sami Aydın
  | Bilkent University
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		           		 Zeynep Aydın
  | Koç University
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		           		 Sina Barazandeh
  | Bilkent University
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					| Zülal Bingöl | Bilkent University | 
					 Fatma Cankara
  | Koç University
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		           		 Emine Beyza Çandır
  | Sabancı University
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					| Ezgi Ebren | Bilkent University | 
		           		 Furkan Eris
  | Sabancı University
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		           		| Sevilay Güleşen | University of Leipzig | 
					 | E. Ravza Gür | University of Oxford | 
					 Ecem İlgün
  | Bilkent University
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 					 | Can Fırtına | ETH Zurich | 
	
		           		 Dilek Koptekin
  | Middle East Technical University
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		           		 Taha Koulani
  | Boğaziçi University
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		           		 Mekan Myradov
  | Sabancı University
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		           		 Sayyed Nozad
  | Bilkent University
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		           		 İlke Ökmen
  | Dokuz Eylül University
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		           		 Damla Övek
  | Koç University
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		           		 Rıza Özçelik
  | Eindhoven University of Technology
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 					 | Begüm Özemek | Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, The Free University of Berlin | 
			 		 Ömer Yavuz Öztürk
  | Bilkent University
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		           		 Ricardo Roman-Brenes
  | Bilkent University
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		           		 Tayfun Tatar
  | Boğaziçi University
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					| Engin Tatlıdil | İzmir Institute of Technology | 
					 Asu Büşra Temizer
  | Boğaziçi University
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		           		 Gökçe Uludoğan
  | Boğaziçi University
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		           		 Gözde Yazıcı
  | Bilkent University
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		           		 Cansu Damla Yılmaz
  | Boğaziçi University
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		           		| Nilay Yönet | Yıldız Technical University | 
					 Klea Zambaku
  | Bilkent University
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		           		 Melisa Ece Zeylan
  | Koç University
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 | Derek Aguiar | University of Connecticut | 
 | Tatsuya Akutsu | Kyoto University | 
 | Can Alkan | Bilkent University | 
 | Srinivas Aluru | Georgia Institute of Technology | 
 | Mukul S. Bansal | University of Connecticut | 
 | Gürkan Bebek | Case Western Reserve University | 
 | Niko Beerenwinkel | ETH Zurich | 
 | Bonnie Berger | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 
 | Valentina Boeva | ETH Zurich | 
 | Karsten Borgwardt | ETH Zurich | 
 | Christina Boucher | University of Florida | 
 | Dongbo Bu | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 
 | Sebastian Böcker | Friedrich Schiller University Jena | 
 | Mark Chaisson | University of Southern California | 
 | Cedric Chauve | Simon Fraser University | 
 | Brian Chen | Lehigh University | 
 | A. Ercüment Çiçek | Bilkent University | 
 | Lenore Cowen | Tufts University | 
 | Tunca Doğan | Hacettepe University | 
 | Mohammed El-Kebir | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 
 | Nadia El-Mabrouk | University of Montreal | 
 | Travis Gagie | Diego Portales University | 
 | Xin Gao | King Abdullah University of Science and Technology | 
 | Anthony Gitter | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 
 | Boying Gong | University of California, Berkeley | 
 | Çiğdem Gündüz Demir | Koç University | 
 | Gamze Gürsoy | Columbia University | 
 | Attila Gürsoy | Koç University | 
 | Faraz Hach | University of British Columbia | 
 | Iman Hajirasouliha | Cornell University | 
 | Bjarni Halldorsson | deCODE genetics and Reykjavik University | 
 | Arif Harmancı | University of Texas Health Sciences Center | 
 | Farhad Hormozdiari | Google Health | 
 | Fereydoun Hormozdiari | University of California, Davis | 
 | Lei Huang | Microsoft | 
 | Tao Jiang | University of California, Riverside | 
 | Emre Karakoç | Wellcome Sanger Institute | 
 | Sündüz Keleş | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 
 | Aly Khan | Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago | 
 | Daisuke Kihara | Purdue University | 
 | Gunnar W. Klau | Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf | 
 | Tal Korem | Columbia University | 
 | Mehmet Koyutürk | Case Western Reserve University | 
 | Gregory Kucherov | CNRS/LIGM | 
 | Jens Lagergren | SBC and CSC, KTH | 
 | Benjamin Langmead | Johns Hopkins University | 
 | Heewook Lee | Arizona State University | 
 | Jingyi Jessica Li | University of California, Los Angeles | 
 | Stefano Lonardi | UC Riverside | 
 | Wenxiu Ma | University of California Riverside | 
 | Jian Ma | Carnegie Mellon University | 
 | Salem Malikic | National Cancer Institute | 
 | Guillaume Marçais | Carnegie Mellon University | 
 | Paul Medvedev | The Pennsylvania State University | 
 | Onur Mutlu | ETH Zurich & Carnegie Mellon University | 
 | Veli Mäkinen | University of Helsinki | 
 | William Stafford Noble | University of Washington | 
 | Ibrahim Numanagic | University of Victoria | 
 | Layla Oesper | Carleton College | 
 | Yaron Orenstein | Bar-Ilan University | 
 | Robert Patro | University of Maryland | 
 | Itsik Pe'Er | Columbia University | 
 | Qian Peng | The Scripps Research Institute | 
 | Nadia Pisanti | University of Pisa | 
 | Cinzia Pizzi | University of Padova | 
 | Teresa Przytycka | National Center of Biotechnology Information | 
 | Ben Raphael | Princeton University | 
 | Knut Reinert | FU Berlin | 
 | Mina Rho | Hanyang University | 
 | Sushmita Roy | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 
 | Cenk Sahinalp | National Cancer Institute | 
 | Sriram Sankararaman | University of California, Los Angeles | 
 | Michael Schatz | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | 
 | Alexander Schoenhuth | Bielefeld University | 
 | Russell Schwartz | Carnegie Mellon University | 
 | Mingfu Shao | Carnegie Mellon University | 
 | Roded Sharan | Tel Aviv University | 
 | Ritambhara Singh | Brown University | 
 | Rohit Singh | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 
 | Sagi Snir | University of Haifa | 
 | Jens Stoye | Bielefeld University | 
 | Fengzhu Sun | University of Southern California | 
 | Wing-Kin Sung | National University of Singapore | 
 | Krister Swenson | CNRS, Université de Montpellier | 
 | Haixu Tang | Indiana University Bloomington | 
 | Öznur Taştan | Sabancı University | 
 | Jonathan Terhorst | University of Michigan | 
 | Tamir Tuller | Tel Aviv University | 
 | Fabio Vandin | University of Padova | 
 | Martin Vingron | Max Planck Institut fuer molekulare Genetik | 
 | Jerome Waldispuhl | McGill University | 
 | Wei Wang | University of California, Los Angeles | 
 | Sheng Wang | University of Washington | 
 | Yijie Wang | Indiana University | 
 | Sebastian Will | Ecole Polytechnique | 
 | Yu-Wei Wu | Taipei Medical University | 
 | Min Xu | Carnegie Mellon University | 
 | Berrin Yanikoglu | Sabancı University | 
 | Yuzhen Ye | Indiana University Bloomington | 
 | Yun William Yu | University of Toronto | 
 | Jianyang Zeng | Tsinghua University | 
 | Shaojie Zhang | University of Central Florida | 
 | Louxin Zhang | National University of Singapore | 
 | Chi Zhang | Indiana University, School of Medicine | 
 | Xuhong Zhang | Indiana University | 
 | Jie Zheng | ShanghaiTech University | 
 | Degui Zhi | University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston |