Amihood Amir (Bar Ilan University, Israel) Alberto Apostolico (Purdue University) Pierre Baldi (UC Irvine) Gary Benson (Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York; Co-chair) Benny Chor (Tel Aviv University) Nadia El-Mabrouk (University of Montreal) Olivier Gascuel (LIRMM-CNRS, Montpellier) Raffaele Giancarlo (U. di Palermo) David Gilbert (University of Glasgow) Jan Gorodkin (The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Denmark) Roderic Guigo (IMIM, Barcelona) Dan Gusfield (UC Davis) Jotun Hein (University of Oxford) Daniel Huson (Tübingen University) Simon Kasif (Boston University) Gregory Kucherov (INRIA-Lorraine/LORIA) Gad Landau (University of Haifa) Thierry Lecroq (Université de Rouen) Bernard M.E. Moret (U. New Mexico) Vincent Moulton (Uppsala University, Sweden) Roderic Page (University of Glasgow; Co-chair) Sophie Schbath (INRA, Jouy-en-Josas) Charles Semple (University of Canterbury, New Zealand) Jens Stoye (Universität Bielefeld) Fengzhu Sun (U. Southern California) Alfonso Valencia (Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia, Madrid) Jacques Van Helden (Université Libre de Bruxelles) Louxin Zhang (National University of Singapore)