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ISMB/ECCB 2019 Steering Committee
Yana Bromberg, Proceedings Co-chair, Rutgers University, United States
Nadia El-Mabrouk, Proceedings Co-chair, Université de Montréal, Canada
Bruno Gaeta, Treasurer, University of New South Wales, Australia
Janet Kelso, Conference Advisory Council Co-chair, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany
Diane E. Kovats, ISCB Executive Director, United States
Steven Leard, ISMB Conference Director, Canada
Thomas Lengauer, President, ISCB, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany
Nicola Mulder, Conference Co-chair, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Christine Orengo, Conference Advisory Council Co-chair, University College London, United Kingdom
Predrag Radivojac, Proceedings Co-chair, Northeastern University, United States
Torsten Schwede, Conference Co-chair, Biozentrum, University of Basel & SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland
Proceedings Committee
Proceedings Co-chairs
Yana Bromberg, Rutgers University, United States
Nadia El-Mabrouk, Université de Montréal, Canada
Predrag Radivojac, Northeastern University, United States
Area Chairs
Bioinformatics Education
Anne Rosenwald, Georgetown, United States
Bioinformatics of Microbes and Microbiomes
Curtis Huttenhower, Harvard University, United States
Yuzhen Ye, Indiana University, United States
Comparative and Functional Genomics
Can Alkan, Bilkent University, Turkey
Carl Kingsford, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Genome Privacy and Security
Haixu Tang, Indiana University, United States
Genomic Variation Analysis
Martin Kircher, Berlin Institute of Health, Germany
Sriram Sankararaman, UCLA, United States
Macromolecular Sequence, Structure, and Function
Lenore Cowen, Tufts University, United States
Jérôme Waldispühl, McGill University, Canada
Population Genomics and Molecular Evolution
Christophe Dessimoz, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Dannie Durand, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Studies of Phenotypes and Clinical Applications
Sara Mostafavi, University of British Columbia, Canada
Venkata Satagopam, University of Luxembourg
Systems Biology and Networks
Sushmita Roy, University of Wisconsin, United States
Roded Sharan, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
General Computational Biology
Olga Vitek, Northeastern University, United States
Daisuke Kihara, Purdue University, United States
Posters Committee
Chair: Arjun Krishnan, Michigan State University, United States
Co-chair: Casey Greene, University of Pennsylvania, United States
Co-chair: Virginie Uhlmann, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), United Kingdom
Tutorials Committee
Chair: Michelle D. Brazas, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Canada
Co-chair: Patricia M. Palagi, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland
Technology Track Committee
Chair: Hagit Shatkay, University of Delaware, United States
Co-chair: Dominic Clark, Pistoia Alliance, Inc, United Kingdom
Travel Fellowship Committee
Chair: Lucia Peixoto, Washington State University, United States
Co-chair: Dimitri Perrin, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
COSI Abstract Chairs
3DSIG: Structural Bioinformatics and Computational Biophysics
Charlotte Deane, Oxford University, United Kingdom
Rafael Najmanovich, University of Montreal, Canada
Bio-Ontologies
Robert Hoehndorf, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology, Saudi Arabia
Philippe Rocca-Serra, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
BioVis: Biological Data Visualization
Danielle Albers Szafir, University of Colorado at Boulder, United States
Thomas Höllt, TU Delft, Netherlands
Michael Krone, University of Tübingen, Germany
BOSC: Bioinformatics Open Source Conference
Christopher Fields, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, openSNP, United States
Nomi Harris, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States
Michael Heuer, UC Berkeley AMPLab, United States
Karsten Hokamp, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Monica Munoz-Torres, Oregon State University, United States
Heather Wiencko, Open Bioinformatics Foundation, Ireland
Yo Yehudi, InterMine (University of Cambridge), United Kingdom
CAMDA: Critical Assessment of Massive Data Analysis
Joaquin Dopazo, Fundacion Progreso y Salud, Spain
David Kreil, Boku University Vienna, Austria
Paweł Łabaj, Małopolska Centre of Biotechnology of Jagiellonian University,
Wenzhong Xiao, mgh/harvard medical school, United States
CompMS: Computational Mass Spectrometry
Oliver Kohlbacher, U Tuebingen, Germany
William Noble, University of Washington, United States
Olga Vitek, Northeastern University, United States
Education: Computational Biology Education
Terri Attwood, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Cath Brooksbank, EMBL-EBI, United Kingdom Patricia Palagi, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland
Russell Schwartz, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Evolution and Comparative Genomics
Lars Arvestad, Stockholm University, Sweden
Christophe Dessimoz, University College London, United Kingdom
Aida Ouangraoua, University of Sherbrooke, Canada
Function: Gene and Protein Function Annotation
Iddo Friedberg, Iowa State University, United States
Casey Greene, University of Pennsylvania, United States
Kim Reynolds, UT Southwestern Medical Center, United States
Mark Wass, University of Kent, United Kingdom
HitSeq: High-throughput Sequencing
Can Alkan, Bilkent University,Turkey Ana Conesa, University of Florida, United States
Ana Conesa, Genomics of Gene Expression Lab, Spain
Francisco M. De La Vega, Stanford University, United States
Dirk J. Evers, Dr. Dirk Evers Consulting, Germany
Gang Fang, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, United States
Kjong Lehmann, ETH-Zürich, Switzerland
Layla Oesper, Carleton College, United States
MLCSB: Machine Learning in Computational and Systems Biology
Manfred Claassen, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Anna Goldenberg, SickKids Research Institute, Canada
MICROBIOME
Aaron Darling, ithree institute, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Alice McHardy, HZI, Germany
Alex Sczyrba, Bielefeld University, Germany
NIcola Segata, University of Trento, Italy
NetBio: Network Biology
Martina Kutmon, Maastricht University, Netherlands
Alex Pico, Gladstone Institutes, United States
RegSys: Regulatory and Systems Genomics
Anaïs Bardet, CNRS - University of Strasbourg, France
Ay Ferhat, La Jolla Institute, United States
Raluca Gordan, Duke University, United States
Shaun Mahony, Penn State, United States
Anthony Mathelier, Oslo University Hospital, Norway
Judith Zaugg, EMBL, Germany
RNA: Computational RNA Biology
Yoseph Barash, University of Pennsylvania, United States
Alex Bateman, EBI, United Kingdom
Eduardo Eyras, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Klemens Hertel, University of California, Irvine, United States
Michelle Scott, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
SysMod: Computational Modeling of Biological Systems
Claudine Chaouiya, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal Andreas Dräger, University of Tübingen, Germany
María Rodríguez Martínez, IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland
Text Mining for Biology and Healthcare
Cecilia Arighi, University of Delaware, United States
Lars Jensen, University of Copenhagen
Robert Leaman, NLM, NIH, United States
Zhiyong Lu, NLM, NIH, United States
TransMed: Translational Medical Informatics
Bissan Al-Lazikani, The Institute of Cancer Research, United Kingdom
Irina Balaur, EISBM, France
Wei Gu, University of Luxembourg,
Saqi Mansoor, KCL, United Kingdom
Venkata Satagopam, University of Luxembourg Maria Secrier, UCL Genetics Institute, United Kingdom
VarI: Variant Interpretation
Yana Bromberg, Rutgers, United States
Emidio Capriotti, University of Bologna, Italy
Hannah Carter, UCSD, United States
Antonio Rausell, Imagine Institute, France
General Computational Biology
Birte Kehr, Berlin Institute of Health, Germany