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            			 | Vineet Bafna |  University of California, San Diego |  
				 | Bonnie Berger (chair) |  Massachusetts Institute of Technology |  
				 | Eleazar Eskin |  University of California, Los Angeles |  
				 | Jian Ma |  Carnegie Mellon University |  
				 | 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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                                 | Sriram Sankararaman | University of California, Los Angeles | 
          				 
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				 | Jihyun F. Kim |  Yonsei University |  
				 | Martin Steinegger |  Seoul National University |  
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				 | Secretary General | 
         | Sungwon Jung |  Gachon University College of Medicine |  
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				 | Treasurer | 
			             | Soon-Kyeong Kwon |  Gyeongsang National University |  
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				 | Planning | 
			             | Ezgi Ebren |  Skygen Bioinformatics Solutions |  
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				 | Operation | 
			             | Hyobin Jeong |  Yonsei University |  
			             | Hyeshik Chang |  Seoul National University |  
			             | Young-suk Lee |  Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology |  
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         | Publication | 
                   | Minkyung Baek |  Seoul National University |  
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				 | Satellites | 
			             | Jinhyuk Bhin |  Yonsei University College of Medicine
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				 | Publicity | 
 			             | Yusook Chung |  Cell Biotech Co., Ltd. |  
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				 | Industry Chairs | 
				     | Mohammed Alser |  Georgia State University |  
	
			             | Jongsik Chun |  CJ Bioscience, Inc. |  
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                   Keynotes Chairs | 
                   
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			             | Daehee Hwang |  Seoul National University |  
			             | Doheon Lee |  Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology |  
                   
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                   Highlights Chairs | 
                   
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			             | Sun Kim |  Seoul National University |  
			             | Michal Linial |  The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |  
                   
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                   Posters Chairs | 
                   
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            			 | Gamze Gürsoy |  Columbia University |  
            			 | Sangwoo Kim |  Yonsei University School of Medicine |  
            					            	 
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                   Travel Fellowships Chairs | 
                   
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            			 | Gürkan Bebek |  Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine |  
            			 | Eunok Paek |  Hanyang University |  
                   
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                   Satellites Chairs | 
                   
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                   RECOMB–Seq | 
            			 | Camille Marchet |  University of Lille |  
            			 | Yaron Orenstein |  Bar-Ilan University |  
		    
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                   RECOMB–CG | 
            			 | Giltae Song |  Pusan National University |  
		    
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                   RECOMB–Genetics | 
                   | Paolo Casale | Helmholtz Zentrum München | 
                 
                   | Maria Chikina | University of Pittsburgh | 
                  
		    
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    		   RECOMB–CCB |  | 
            			 | Andrew Roth |  BC Cancer Research Center |  
            			 | Hui Shen |  Van Andel Institute |  
		   
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    		   RECOMB–CSB |  | 
           | Minkyung Baek |  Seoul National University |  
           | Jinhyuk Bhin |  Yonsei University College of Medicine |  
		   
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       RECOMB–Microbiome |  | 
           | Peer Bork |  EMBL |  
           | Jihyun F. Kim |  Yonsei University |  
           
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       RECOMB–P&E |  | 
               | Hyunghoon Cho |  Yale University |  
               | Shalmali Joshi |  Columbia University |  
   
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		           		 Student and Young Scientist Helpers  | 
                  
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                    | Junbeom Bae |  Yonsei University |  
                    | Hanbyul Cho |  Yonsei University |  
                    | Insung Cho |  Yonsei University |  
 
                    | Ye Ram Cho |  Yonsei University |  
                    | Jaehyun Choi |  Yonsei University |  
                    | Yunji Choi |  Korea University |  
                    | Myeongah Ham |  Yonsei University |  
                    | Chanwoo Hwang |  Yonsei University |  
                    | Jin Ho Hwang |  Yonsei University |  
                    | Yejin Hwang |  Yonsei University |  
                    | Yohan Hwang |  Yonsei University |  
                    | Yoojung Hwang |  Yonsei University |  
                    | Luna Sungeun Jang |  Seoul National University |  
                    | Soohee Jang |  Yonsei University |  
                    | Marie Larsen Janson |  Yonsei University |  
                    | Yunjin Jung |  Yonsei University |  
                    | Donghyun Kang |  Yonsei University |  
                    | Annalena Keller |  Yonsei University |  
                    | Semin Kim |  Yonsei University |  
                    | Seoyoon Kim |  Yonsei University |  
                    | Yeajin Kim |  Seoul National University |  
                    | Gyuri Kim |  Seoul National University |  
                    | Jayoung Ku |  Seoul National University |  
                    | Donghyun Lee |  Yonsei University |  
                    | Sohyun Lee |  Yonsei University |  
                    | Sun Jae Lee |  Seoul National University |  
                    | HyeonGwon Lee |  Yonsei University | 
                   
 | Seung Kyun Noh |  Yonsei University |  
                    | Hyun Seo Park |  Yonsei University |  
                    | Haechang Rhee |  Yonsei University |  
                    | Junghyun Ryu |  Yonsei University |  
                    | Yeonsoo Ryu |  Yonsei University |  
                    | Eunyoung Seo |  Yonsei University College of Medicine |  
                    | Jein Seo |  Yonsei University |  
                    | Dasol Seong |  Yonsei University |  
                    | Ju Yeon Song |  Yonsei University |  
                    | Jingi Yeo |  Seoul National University |  
                    | Andrew Min Yi |  Yonsei University |  
                    | Jaekyung Yoon |  Yonsei University |  
                    | Li Zimeng |  Yonsei University |  
                   
 							    
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           		 Program Committee | 
			             
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 |  Derek Aguiar |  University of Connecticut |  
 |  Tatsuya Akutsu |  Kyoto University |  
 |  Can Alkan |  Bilkent University |  
 |  Srinivas Aluru |  Georgia Institute of Technology |  
 |  Joon-Yong An |  Korea University |  
 |  Minkyung Baek |  Seoul National University |  
 |  Vineet Bafna |  UC San Diego |  
 |  Mukul S. Bansal |  University of Connecticut |  
 |  Kayhan Batmanghelich |  Boston University |  
 |  Niko Beerenwinkel |  ETH Zurich |  
 |  Bonnie Berger |  Massachusetts Institute of Technology |  
 |  Karsten Borgwardt |  Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry |  
 |  Aritra Bose |  IBM |  
 |  Christina Boucher |  University of Florida |  
 |  Sebastian Böcker |  Friedrich Schiller University Jena |  
 |  Francesco Paolo Casale |  Helmholtz Munich |  
 |  Rayan Chikhi |  Institut Pasteur and CNRS |  
 |  Maria Chikina |  University of Pittsburgh |  
 |  Hyunghoon Cho |  Yale University |  
 |  A. Ercument Cicek |  Bilkent University |  
 |  Lenore Cowen |  Tufts University |  
 |  Mohammed El-Kebir |  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |  
 |  Nadia El-Mabrouk |  University of Montreal |  
 |  Anthony Gitter |  University of Wisconsin-Madison |  
 |  Vishaka Gopalan |  National Cancer Institute |  
 |  Gamze Gursoy |  Columbia University |  
 |  Faraz Hach |  University of British Columbia |  
 |  Iman Hajirasouliha |  Cornell University |  
 |  Bjarni Halldorsson |  deCODE genetics and Reykjavik University |  
 |  Stephanie Hicks |  Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health |  
 |  Brian Hie |  Stanford University |  
 |  Seunghee Hong |  Yonsei University |  
 |  Farhad Hormozdiari |  Google Health |  
 |  Fereydoun Hormozdiari |  University of California, Davis |  
 |  Zhi Huang |  University of Pennsylvania |  
 |  Chirag Jain |  Indian Institute of Science |  
 |  Young Seok Ju |  Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology |  
 |  Inkyung Jung |  Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology |  
 |  Hyun Min Kang |  University of Michigan |  
 |  Sunduz Keles |  University of Wisconsin-Madison |  
 |  Aly Khan |  University of Chicago |  
 |  Daisuke Kihara |  Purdue University |  
 |  Jaebum Kim |  Konkuk University |  
 |  Junil Kim |  Soongsil University |  
 |  Carl Kingsford |  Carnegie Mellon University |  
 |  Gunnar W. Klau |  Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf |  
 |  David Knowles |  Columbia University |  
 |  Mikhail Kolmogorov |  National Cancer Institute |  
 |  Peter Koo |  Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory |  
 |  David Koslicki |  Penn State University |  
 |  Mehmet Koyutürk |  Case Western Reserve University |  
 |  Benjamin Langmead |  Johns Hopkins University |  
 |  Joo Sang Lee |  Sungkyunkwan University |  
 |  Seunggeun Lee |  Seoul National University |  
 |  Jingyi Jessica Li |  University of California, Los Angeles |  
 |  Wei Vivian Li |  University of California, Riverside |  
 |  Michal Linial |  Hebrew University of Jerusalem |  
 |  Stefano Lonardi |  UC Riverside |  
 |  Yunan Luo |  Georgia Institute of Technology |  
 |  Cong Ma |  University of Michigan |  
 |  Jian Ma |  Carnegie Mellon University |  
 |  Jianzhu Ma |  Tsinghua University |  
 |  Ahmed Mahfouz |  Leiden University Medical Center |  
 |  Salem Malikic |  National Cancer Institute |  
 |  Paul Medvedev |  Pennsylvania State University |  
 |  Siavash Mirarab |  UC San Diego |  
 |  Erin Molloy |  University of Maryland, College Park |  
 |  Sara Mostafavi |  University of Washington |  
 |  Onur Mutlu |  ETH Zurich and Carnegie Mellon University |  
 |  Veli Mäkinen |  University of Helsinki |  
 |  Luay Nakhleh |  Rice University |  
 |  Hojung Nam |  Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology |  
 |  Manikandan Narayanan |  IIT Madras |  
 |  William Stafford Noble |  University of Washington |  
 |  Vasilis Ntranos |  UCSF |  
 |  Ibrahim Numanagic |  University of Victoria |  
 |  Layla Oesper |  Carleton College |  
 |  Yaron Orenstein |  Bar-Ilan University |  
 |  Julia Palacios |  Stanford University |  
 |  Jong-Eun Park |  Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology |  
 |  Robert Patro |  University of Maryland |  
 |  Itsik Pe'Er |  Columbia University |  
 |  Harold Pimentel |  University of California, Los Angeles |  
 |  Yann Ponty |  CNRS and Ecole Polytechnique |  
 |  Victoria Popic |  The Broad Institute |  
 |  Yuri Pritykin |  Princeton University |  
 |  Teresa Przytycka |  National Center of Biotechnology Information |  
 |  Pawel Przytycki |  Boston University |  
 |  Elior Rahmani |  University of California, Los Angeles |  
 |  Ben Raphael |  Princeton University |  
 |  Knut Reinert |  Free University Berlin |  
 |  Sushmita Roy |  University of Wisconsin-Madison |  
 |  Cenk Sahinalp |  National Cancer Institute |  
 |  Kristoffer Sahlin |  Stockholm University |  
 |  Kris Sankaran |  University of Wisconsin - Madison |  
 |  Palash Sashittal |  Virginia Tech |  
 |  Alexander Schoenhuth |  Bielefeld University |  
 |  Russell Schwartz |  Carnegie Mellon University |  
 |  Manu Setty |  Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center |  
 |  Mingfu Shao |  Penn State University |  
 |  Roded Sharan |  Tel Aviv University |  
 |  Tetsuo Shibuya |  University of Tokyo |  
 |  Mona Singh |  Princeton University |  
 |  Ritambhara Singh |  Brown University |  
 |  Rohit Singh |  Duke University |  
 |  Sagi Snir |  University of Haifa |  
 |  Martin Steinegger |  Seoul National University |  
 |  Jens Stoye |  Bielefeld University |  
 |  Fengzhu Sun |  University of Southern California |  
 |  Haixu Tang |  Indiana University Bloomington |  
 |  Alexandru I. Tomescu |  University of Helsinki |  
 |  Tamir Tuller |  Tel Aviv University |  
 |  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 |  
 |  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 Medical Discovery Institute |  
 |  Yun William Yu |  Carnegie Mellon University |  
 |  Hamim Zafar |  IIT Kanpur |  
 |  Jianyang Zeng |  Westlake University |  
 |  Louxin Zhang |  National University of Singapore |  
 |  Martin Zhang |  Carnegie Mellon University |  
 |  Ruochi Zhang |  The 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 |  University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston |