ISMB/ECCB 2013 PROCEEDINGS PAPERS COMMITTEE

Vol. 29 ISMB/ECCB 2013, pages i3–i8BIOINFORMATICS doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btt281

ISMB/ECCB 2013 PROCEEDINGS PAPERS COMMITTEE

PROCEEDINGS PAPERS COMMITTEE CHAIR

Nir Ben-Tal, Tel Aviv University, Israel

PROCEEDINGS PAPERS-AREA CHAIRS

A. Applied Bioinformatics

Ora Furman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Thomas Lengauer, Max Planck Institute for Informatics,Saarbrucken, Germany

B. Bioimaging and Data Visualization

Sean I. O’Donoghue, CSIRO & Garvan Institute, AustraliaCarolina Wahlby, Broad Institute, Cambridge, USA

C. Databases and Ontologies and Text Mining

Alex Bateman, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI),

Hinxton, UKHagit Shatkay, University of Delaware, Newark, USA

D. Disease Models and Epidemiology

Simon Kasif, Boston University, USA

E. Evolution and Comparative Genomics

Tandy Warnow, The University of Texas at Austin, USATal Pupko, Tel Aviv University, Israel

F. Gene Regulation and Transcriptomics

Zohar Yakhini, Agilent, Haifa, Israel

Alexander Hartemink, Duke University, USA

G. Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics

Rob Russell, University of Heidelberg, GermanyOlga Vitek, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA

H. Metabolic Networks

Bonnie Berger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

Cambridge, USAJason Papin, University of Virginia, USA

I. Population Genomics

Russell Schwartz, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

Eleazar Eskin, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

J. Protein Interactions and Molecular Networks

Mona Singh, Princeton University, USARoded Sharan, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

K. Protein Structure and Function

Lenore Cowen, Tufts University, Medford, USAJie Liang, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

L. RNA Bioinformatics

Hanah Margalit, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Ivo Hofacker, University of Vienna, Austria

M. Sequence Analysis

Serafim Batzoglou, Stanford University, USACenk Sahinalp, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada

PROCEEDINGS PAPERS—PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Applied Bioinformatics

Dvir Aran

Rolf BackofenSandra BaldaufMukul BansalRobert Beiko

Asa Ben-HurBonnie BergerChristoph Bock

Mikael BodenYana BrombergSharon Browning

Emidio CapriottiMinh CaoHo-Ryun Chung

KomalapriyaChandrasekaranCharlotte DeanFrank Dudbridge

Danny Durand

Nadia El-MabroukArne ElofssonArcadio-Rubio GarciaAndre Gohr

Ivo GrosseAsaf HellmanPaul Horton

Daniel HusonSorin IstrailShalev Itzkovitz

Asif JavedNoam KaplanTommy Kaplan

Szymon KielbasaRoy KishonyMehmet KoyuturkJens Lagergren

Wei Li

Mangus LidenJun MaVeli MakinenSerghei Mangul

Gabriel MargaridoDebora MarksYosi Maruvka

Alice McHardyBernard MoretAlexandre Morozov

Kenta NakaiZoran NikoloskiLior Pachter

Osnat PennMartin PorschDariusz PrzybylskiJorg Rahnenfuhrer

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Isidore RigoutsosMatthew RuffaloRemo RohsSaharon Rosset

Armindo SalvadorAlejandro Schaffer

Ora Schueler-FurmanRussel SchwartzItai SharonNoam Shental

Gary StormoPeter Van-Loo

Martin VingronJorn WalterSimon WhelanYufeng Wu

Alex ZelikovskyChao Zhang

Bioimaging and Data Visualization

Kevin W Eliceiri

Nils GehlenborgMichael HawrylyczJessie Kenndy

Martin Krzywinski

Cris Luengo

Torsten MollerRobert F. MurphyKay Nieselt

Alexandra Pacureanu

Ivo Sbalzarini

Shantanu SinghIda-Maria SintornPascal Vallotton

Erik Wernersson

Databases and Ontologies and Text Mining

Judy BlakeChristian Blaschke

Olivier BodenreiderKevin Bretonnel CohenNigel CollierDina Demner-Fushman

Xose FernandezRezarta Islamaj DoganLars Juhl Jensen

Halil KilicogluJung-Jae Kim

Maria LiakataHaibin LiuKenta NakaiJong C. Park

Alina PetrovaDietrich Rebholz-SchuhmannJanine Roy

Alan RuttenbergMichael Schroeder

Larisa SoldatovaNarayanaswamy SrinivasanPadmini SrinivasanJian Su

Yoshimasa TsuruokaKarin VerspoorLana Yeganova

Disease Models and Epidemiology

Gyan BhanotStan LetovskyManway Liu

Bud Mishra

Michael MollaStefano MontiPeter Park

Esther Rheinbay

Tomer ShlomiLewi StoneChang-Jiun Wu

Or Zuk

Evolution and Comparative Genomics

Elizabeth AllmanCecile Ane

Mathieu BlanchetteNadia El-MabroukNicolas GaltierMatthew Hahn

Mark HolderKathi Huber

Junhyong KimJens LagergrenJim Leegen-MackBernard Moret

Vincent MoultonLuay Nakhleh

Teresa PrzytyckaSebastien RochEdward SuskoSimon Whelan

Gene Regulation and Transcriptomics

Edoardo M. AiroldiCatherine BallYoseph Barash

Tim BeissbarthPanayiotis BenosDoron Betel

Richard BonneauAlan BoyleMichael R. Brent

Harmen BussemakerGal ChechikMark Craven

Susmita DattaMatthew EatonOlof Emanuelsson

Jason ErnstBrendan FreyDavid Gifford

Raluca GordanSridhar HannenhalliPaul Harrison

Haiyan HuangWolfgang HuberTim Hughes

Curtis HuttenhowerTommy KaplanManolis Kellis

Philip KimSteven H. KleinsteinAnshul Kundaje

Dena LeshkowitzOle Christian LingjaerdeXiaole Liu

Jason Long LuDavid MacAlpineShaun Mahony

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ISMB/ECCB 2013 Proceedings Papers Committee

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Florian MarkowetzSaturo MiyanoAlexandre MorozovElena Nabieva

Leelavati NarlikarWilliam Stafford NobleUwe Ohler

Peter ParkAndreas PfenningYuan Qi

Jiang Qian

Oliver RandoPradipta RayTim ReddyMarkus Ringner

David RockeRon ShamirNathan Sheffield

Saurabh SinhaDonna SlonimRainer Spang

Gary Stormo

Joshua M. StuartKai TanAmos TanayKoji Tsuda

Martin VingronYu XiaElena Zaslavsky

Michael ZhangDeyou Zheng

Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics

Nuno BandeiraJianlin Cheng

Manfred ClaassenHyungwon Choi

Lukas KallSangtae Kim

Lennart MartensAlexey Nesvizhskii

Rod NibbePredrag Radivojac

Vera VannoortBobbie-Jo Webb-Robertson

Metabolic Networks

Hal AlperPeter Karp

Steffen Klamt

Satoru MiyanoBalazs Papp

Nathan Price

Stefan SchusterRyan Senger

Sang Yup Lee

Population Genomics

Vikas BansalYael Baran

Frank DudbridgeDan GusfieldBjarni Halldorsson

Buhm HanHyun Min Kang

Seyoung KimJing Li

Jennifer ListgartenIon MandoiuLaxmi Parida

Bogdan PasaniucItsik Pe’Er

Alkes PriceZhaohui Qin

Saharon RossetSriram SankararamanYufeng Wu

Noah Zaitlen

Protein Interactions and Molecular Networks

Patrick Aloy

Gary BaderZiv Bar-JosephAsa Ben-HurAndreas Beyer

Juan Fernandez-RecioAlfredo FerroDario Ghersi

Debra GoldbergCasey GreeneHenning Hermjakob

Charlie Hodgman

Trey Ideker

Igor JurisicaTamer KahveciCarl KingsfordMehmet Koyuturk

Rui KuangHans-Peter LenhofTijana Milenkovic

T.M. MuraliChad MyersFlorencio Pazos

Matteo Pellegrini

Natasa Przulj

Ben RaphaelDenise ScholtensBenno SchwikowskiBerend Snel

Denis ThieffryJean-Philipe VertEsti Yeger-Lotem

Hongyu ZhaoElena Zotenko

Protein Structure and Function

Chris Bailey-KelloggPatrick Barth

Jadwiga BienkowskaPhil BradleyChris Bystroff

Rita CasadioBrian Chen

Thomas DandekarBhaskar DasGuptaCharlotte Deane

Bruce DonaldArne Elofsson

Julian GoughNick GrishinTurkan Haliloglu

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ISMB/ECCB 2013 ORGANIZATION

CONFERENCE CHAIRS

Burkhard Rost, Conference Co-chair, Technical University

Munich, GermanyAnna Tramontano, Conference Co-chair, University of Rome,

ItalyMartin Vingron, Conference Co-chair, Max Planck Institute for

Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany

STEERING COMMITTEE

Nir Ben-Tal, Proceedings Chair, Tel Aviv University, IsraelPaul Horton, ISCB Conferences Committee Chair, AIST,

Computational Biology Research Center, Japan

Janet Kelso, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary

Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Diane E. Kovats, ISCB Executive Director, Fairfax, Virginia,

USASteven Leard, ISCB Conferences Director, Edmonton, Canada

Michal Linial, Special Sessions Chair, The Hebrew University of

Jerusalem, Israel

Burkhard Rost, Conference Co-chair and Highlights Chair,

Technical University Munich, Germany

Reinhard Schneider, ISCB Treasurer, University of LuxembourgAnna Tramontano, Conference Co-chair, University of Rome

‘‘La Sapienza’’, Italy

Martin Vingron, Conference Co-chair, Max Planck Institute for

Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany

Manuela Helmer-CitterichLiisa HolmRobert JerniganOzlem Keskin

Daisuke KiharaAndrzej KlockowskiRachel Kolodny

Arun KonagurthuKeren Lasker

Olivier LichtargeIvana MihalekJulie MitchellVikas Nanda

Avner SchlessingerYibing ShanIstvan Simon

Maya TopfSilvio Tosatto

Jeffrey TsengAllegra ViaHaim WolfsonJinbo Xu

Dong XuMartin ZachariasJinfeng Zhang

Yaoqi Zhou

RNA Bioinformatics

Rolf Backofen

Danny BarashPeter CloteRobin Dowell

Manuel GarberIrit Gat-Viks

Robert Giegerich

Francois MajorDavid MathewsYann Ponty

Elena RivasPeter Stadler

Igor Ulitsky

Zasha WeinbergEric WesthofMichal Ziv-Ukelson

Sequence Analysis

Tatsuya AkutsuCan Alkan

Alberto ApostolicoVikas BansalMathieu Blanchette

Jeremy BuhlerFrancis ChinHector Corrada Bravo

Martin EsterDirk EversJames Galagan

Eran HalperinFereydoun Hormozdiari

Zamin IqbalJohn KececiogluSun Kim

Stefano LonardiIon MandoiuPaul Medvedev

Ivan OvcharenkoKnut ReinertMichael Schatz

Alexander SchliepAlexander Schoenhuth

Peter StadlerJens StoyeHaixu Tang

Glenn TeslerJerome WaldispuhlS.M. Yiu

Alex ZelikovskyDaniel Zerbino

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SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Art and Science Chair: Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern, Chair,

Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid,

SpainHighlights Track Chair: Burkhard Rost, TUM, Munich,

GermanyLate Breaking Research Track Chair: Ioannis Xenarios,

University of Lausanne, SwitzerlandPosters Chair: Yana Bromberg, Rutgers, The State University of

New Jersey, USAProceedings Chair: Nir Ben-Tal, Tel Aviv University, IsraelSpecial Interest Groups Chair: Alan Christoffels, University of

Western Cape, South AfricaSpecial Sessions Chair: Michal Linial, The Hebrew University of

Jerusalem, IsraelTechnology Track Chair: Rodrigo Lopez, European

Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UKTravel Fellowships Chair: Guilherme Oliveira, FIOCRUZ, Belo

Horizonte, BrazilTutorials Chair: Janet Kelso, Max Planck Institute for

Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, GermanyWorkshops Track Chair: Christine Orengo, University College

London, UK

ART AND SCIENCE COMMITTEE

Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern, Chair, Spanish National Cancer

Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain

Maja Klevanski, Heidelberg University, GermanyGeoff Macintyre, University of Melbourne, AustraliaVenkata P. Satagopam, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany

HIGHLIGHTS COMMITTEE

Burkhard Rost, Chair, Technical University Munich, Germany

Reinhard Schneider, Committee Co-Chair, University of

Luxembourg

Kiyoshi Asai, University of Tokyo, JapanEric Bongcam-Rudloff, Uppsala University, SwedenEleazar Eskin, University of California, San Diego, USATerry Gaasterland, University of California, San Diego, USA

Yanay Ofran, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, IsraelPaul Horton, Computational Biology Research Center, AIST,

JapanToni Kazic, University of Missouri, Columbia, USAJanet Kelso, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary

Anthropology, Leipzig, GermanyStefan Kramer, Technical University Munich, Germany

Michal Linial, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, IsraelPredrag Radivojac, Indiana University, USAJacques Reifman, US Army Medical Research and Material

Command, Fort Detrick, USADonna Slonim, Tufts University, Medford, USA

Alfonso Valencia, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre

(CNIO), Madrid, Spain

Lonnie Welch, Ohio University, Athens, USARalf Zimmer, University of Munich, Germany

LATE BREAKING RESEARCH COMMITTEE

Ioannis Xenarios, Co-Chair, University of Lausanne,

SwitzerlandDana Pe’er, Co-chair, Columbia University, USA

Edoardo Airoldi, Harvard University, USAWinston Hide, Harvard School of Public Health, USAOliver Hofmann, Harvard School of Public Health, USA

Curtis Huttenhower, Harvard School of Public Health, USACarl Kingsford, University of Maryland, USAXiaole Liu, Harvard School of Public Health, USAFlorian Markowetz, Cambridge University, USA

Predrag Radivojac, Indiana University, United States Olga

Vitek, Purdue University, USAYong Zhang, Tongji University, China

POSTER COMMITTEE

Yana Bromberg, Committee Chair, Rutgers, The State

University of New Jersey, Newark, USANir Ben-Tal, Tel-Aviv University, IsraelHannah Carter, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA

Wyatt Clark, Indiana University, Pennsylvania, USAJeroen de Ridder, Delft University of Technology, Amsterdam,

The NetherlandsIddo Friedberg, Miami University, Oxford, USATatyana Goldberg, Technical University Munich, Germany

Ben Jelen, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USALaszlo Kajan, Technical University of Munich, GermanyEdda Kloppmann, TUM Munich, GermanyHande Kucuk, University of Miami, USA

Fran Lewitter, Committee Co-Chair, Whitehead Institute for

Biomedical Research, Cambridge, USAGeoff Macintyre, University of Melbourne, AustraliaJason McDermott, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory,

United States Magali Michaut, Netherlands Cancer Institute,

Amsterdam, NetherlandsJuan Miguel Cejuela Technical University of Munich, GermanyYves Moreau, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium

Thomas Peterson, University of Maryland, Baltimore, USAJonas Reeb, Technical University of Munich, GermanyNikolay Samusik, Stanford University, USA

Venkata Satagopam, EMBL, Heidelberg, GermanyAndrea Schafferhans, Technical University Munich, GermanyAvner, Schlessinger, UCSF, San Francisco, USAStefan Senn, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA

Oren Tzfadia, Weizmann Institute, IsraelChengsheng Zhu, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA

SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS COMMITTEE

Alan Christoffels, Committee Co-chair, University of Western

Cape, South AfricaHershel Safer, Committee Co-chair, Tel Aviv University, IsraelJill Mesirov, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge,

USA

Nicky Mulder, University of Cape Town, South AfricaChristine Orengo, University College London, UK

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SPECIAL SESSIONS COMMITTEE

Michal Linial, Chair, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

STUDENT COUNCIL SYMPOSIUM

Tomas Di Domenico, Chair, University of Padua, ItalyTomasz Stokowy, Co-Chair, Silesian University of Technology,

PolandMarion Adebiyi, Program, Covenant University, NigeriaMalay Bhattacharyya, Finance, Keynotes, Indian Statistical

Institute, IndiaJanos Binder, Finance, European Molecular Biology LaboratoryJorgen Brandt, Social Event, Humboldt University of Berlin,

GermanyEmre Guney, Program, Pompeu Fabra University, SpainCanan Has, Social Event, Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey

Himanshu Joshi, Social Event, Akershus University Hospital,Oslo, Norway

Pieter Meysman, Web, University of Antwerp, BelgiumCynthia Prudence, Finance, University of Rhode Island, USA

Sayane Shomez, Booklet, Vellore Institute of Technology, IndiaEsmeralda Vicedo, Travel Fellowships, TU Munich, GermanyGokmen Zararsiz, Booklet, Erciyes University, Turkey

TECHNOLOGY TRACK COMMITTEE

Rodrigo Lopez, Chair, European Bioinformatics Institute,

Cambridge, UKChristophe Blanchet, National Centre for Scientific Research,Lyon, France

Des Higgins, University College Dublin, Ireland

Christine Orengo, University College London, UKWilliam Pearson, University of Virginia School of Medicine,USA

Johannes Soeding, Ludwig-Maximilian, University of Munich,

Germany

TRAVEL FELLOWSHIPS

Guilherme Oliveira, Chair, FIOCRUZ, Belo Horizonte, BrazilJoe Arrais, University of Coimbra, PortugalAppolinaire Djikeng, International Livestock Research Institute,

KenyaDaniel Hurley, University of New Zealand, New ZealandFrancisco Lobo, EMBRAPA, Brazil

Ulisses de Mendonca Brago-Neto, Texas A & M University,USA

TUTORIALS COMMITTEE

Janet Kelso, Chair, Max-Planck-Institute for EvolutionaryAnthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Fran Lewitter, Whitehead Institute of Biomedical Research,

Cambridge, USA

WORKSHOP COMMITTEE

Christine Orengo, Chair, University College London, UKJanet Kelso, Max Planck Institute for EvolutionaryAnthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Predrag Radivojac, Indiana University, USA

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