Committees

Steering Committee



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


Program Chair



Jian Ma Carnegie Mellon University


Organizing Committee



Co-chairs
Bonnie Berger Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lenore Cowen Tufts University
Industry Chair
Iman Hajirasouliha Weill Cornell Medicine


Highlights Chair



Michal Linial Hebrew University of Jerusalem


Posters Chair



Joshua Welch University of Michigan


Travel Fellowships Chair



Gürkan BebekCase Western Reserve University
Pawel Przytycki Boston University


Satellite Chairs



RECOMB-Seq
Mingfu Shao Pennsylvania State University
Ritambhara Singh Brown University


RECOMB-CG
Maribel Hernández Rosales Center for Research and Advanced Studies (CINVESTAV)
Celine Scornavacca University of Montpellier


RECOMB-Genetics
Bogdan PasaniucUCLA


RECOMB-CCB
Mohammed El-Kebir UIUC
Kamila Naxerova Harvard Medical School


RECOMB-PRIEQ
Ercüment Çiçek Bilkent University
Gamze Gürsoy Columbia University
Mona Singh Princeton University


Program Committee



Can Alkan Bilkent University
Srinivas Aluru Georgia Institute of Technology
Kin-Fai Au University of Michigan
Ferhat Ay La Jolla Institute for Immunology
Vineet Bafna UC San Diego
Serafim Batzoglou Seer Inc.
Bonnie Berger Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mathieu Blanchette McGill University
Karsten Borgwardt Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
Christina Boucher University of Florida
Phil Bradley Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Maria Brbic EPFL
Sebastian Böcker Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Mark Chaisson University of Southern California
Cedric Chauve Simon Fraser University
Ken Chen MD Anderson Cancer Center
Rayan Chikhi Institut Pasteur & CNRS
Maria Chikina University of Pittsburgh
Hoon Cho Yale University
Ercument Cicek Bilkent University
Lenore Cowen Tufts University
Bianca Dumitrascu Columbia University
Mohammed El-Kebir University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Nadia El-Mabrouk University of Montreal
Anthony Gitter University of Wisconsin-Madison
Gamze Gursoy Columbia University
Faraz Hach University of British Columbia
Iman Hajirasouliha Weill Cornell Medicine
Bjarni Halldorsson Reykjavik University
Stephanie Hicks Johns Hopkins University
Brian Hie Stanford University
Farhad Hormozdiari Google Health
Fereydoun Hormozdiari UC Davis
Chirag Jain Indian Institute of Science
Sunduz Keles University of Wisconsin-Madison
Daisuke Kihara Purdue University
Carl Kingsford Carnegie Mellon University
Gunnar Klau Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Mikhail Kolmogorov National Cancer Institute
Peter Koo Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
David Koslicki Penn State University
Mehmet Koyutürk Case Western Reserve University
Smita Krishnaswamy Yale University
Anshul Kundaje Stanford University
Benjamin Langmead Johns Hopkins University
Christina Leslie Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Heng Li Dana-Faber Cancer Institute & Harvard Medical School
Wei Vivian Li UC Riverside
Jingyi Jessica Li UCLA
Mohammad Lotfollahi Welcome Sanger Institute
Yunan Luo Georgia Institute of Technology
Jianzhu Ma Tsinghua University
Ahmed Mahfouz Leiden University Medical Center
Salem Malikic National Cancer Institute
Paul Medvedev Penn State University
Siavash Mirarab UC San Diego
Erin Molloy University of Maryland
Sara Mostafavi University of Washington
Veli Mäkinen University of Helsinki
Luay Nakhleh Rice University
William Stafford Noble University of Washington
Ibrahim Numanagic University of Victoria
Yaron Orenstein Bar-Ilan University
Julia Palacios Stanford University
Robert Patro University of Maryland
Yann Ponty CNRS & Ecole Polytechnique
Shyam Prabhakar Genome Institute of Singapore
Yuri Pritykin Princeton University
Teresa Przytycka NCBI / NIH
Pawel Przytycki Boston University
Ben Raphael Princeton University
Knut Reinert Freie Universität Berlin
Sushmita Roy University of Wisconsin-Madison
Cenk Sahinalp National Cancer Institute
Kristoffer Sahlin Stockholm University
Sriram Sankararaman UCLA
Michael Schatz Johns Hopkins University
Alexander Schoenhuth Bielefeld University
Russell Schwartz Carnegie Mellon University
Manu Setty Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Ron Shamir Tel Aviv University
Mingfu Shao Penn State University
Roded Sharan Tel Aviv University
Mona Singh Princeton University
Rohit Singh Duke University
Ritambhara Singh Brown University
Sagi Snir University of Haifa
Martin Steinegger Seoul National University
Jens Stoye Bielefeld University
Fengzhu Sun University of Southern California
Jonathan Terhorst University of Michigan
Alexandru Tomescu University of Helsinki
Tamir Tuller Tel Aviv University
David van Dijk Yale University
David Van Valen California Institute of Technology
Fabio Vandin University of Padova
Martin Vingron Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics
Jerome Waldispuhl McGill University
Sheng Wang University of Washington
Xiaowo Wang Tsinghua University
Yijie Wang Indiana University Bloomington
Bo Wang Univesrity of Toronto
Tandy Warnow University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Joshua Welch University of Michigan
Yufeng Wu University of Connecticut
Min Xu Carnegie Mellon University
Vicky Yao Rice University
Yuzhen Ye Indiana University Bloomington
Kevin Yip Sanford Burnham Prebys
Yun William Yu Carnegie Mellon University
Jianyang Zeng Westlake University
Louxin Zhang National University of Singapore
Martin Zhang Carnegie Mellon University
Nancy R. Zhang University of Pennsylvania
Ruochi Zhang Broad Institute
Sai Zhang University of Florida
Shaojie Zhang University of Central Florida
Xiuwei Zhang Georgia Institute of Technology
Jie Zheng ShanghaiTech University
Degui Zhi UT Health Science Center at Houston
Jian Zhou UT Southwestern Medical Center