Rita Casadio, U. Bologna (co-chair) Gene Myers, U.C. Berkeley (co-chair) Pankaj Agarwal, Duke Tatsuya Akutsu, Kyoto University Amir Amihood, Bar-Ilan University Alberto Apostolico, Purdue Craig Benham, U.C. Davis Gary Benson, Mount Sinai Mathieu Blanchette, McGill Nadia El-Mabrouk, U. Montr´eal Olivier Gascuel, U. Montpellier Raffaele Giancarlo, U. Palermo Roderic Guigo, IMIM Barcelona Michael Hallett, McGill Daniel Huson, U. Tuebingen Gregory Kucherov, INRIA Nancy Jens Lagergren, KTH Stockholm Giuseppe Lancia, U. Udine Gaddy Landau, U. Haifa Thierry Lecroq, U. Rouen Bernard Moret, U. New Mexico Shinichi Morishita, U. Tokyo Elchanan Mossel, University of California, Berkeley Vincent Moulton, U. East Anglia, UK Lior Pachter, U.C. Berkeley Knut Reinert, Free Univeristy of Berlin Isidore Rigoutsos, IBM Watson Marie-France Sagot, INRIA RhÆone-Alpes David Sankoff, U. Ottawa Sophie Schbath, INRA Jouy-en-Josas Eran Segal, Rockefeller Charles Semple, U. Canterbury Joao Carlos Setubal, Virginia Tech. Roded Sharan, Tel-Aviv University, Israel Steve Skiena, U.N.Y. Stony Brook Jens Stoye, U. Bielefeld Esko Ukkonen, U. Helsinki Alfonso Valencia, Centre for Biotechnology Madrid Lusheng Wang, U. Hong Kong Tandy Warnow, U.T. Austin