Elizabeth Allman (University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA) Tanya Berger-Wolf (University of Illinois, USA) Paola Bonizzoni (Università Degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy) Dan Brown (University of Waterloo, Canada) Rita Casadio (Università di Bologna, Italy) Mark Clement (Brigham Young University, USA) Maxime Crochemore (Université Paris-Est, Marne-la-Vallée, France) Miklos Csuros (University of Montreal, Canada) Aaron Darling (UC Davis, USA) Nadia El-Mabrouk (Université de Montréal, Canada) Eleazar Eskin (UCLA, USA) Liliana Florea (University of Maryland, USA) Ganesh Ganapathy (NESCENT, USA) Olivier Gascuel (LIRMM-CNRS, France) Raffaele Giancarlo (Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy) Concettina Guerra (Università di Padova, Italy) Roderic Guigo (Centre de Regulació Genòmica, Spain) Sridhar Hannenhalli (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Daniel Huson (Universität Tübingen, Germany) Shane Jensen (University of Pennsylvania -- Wharton, USA) Carl Kingsford (University of Maryland, USA) Ming Li (University of Waterloo, Canada) Randy Linder (University of Texas, USA) Stefano Lonardi (UC Riverside, USA) Jian Ma (UC Santa Cruz, USA) Erick Matsen (UC Berkeley, USA) Istvan Miklos (Rényi Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary) Bernard Moret (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland) Burkhard Morgenstern (University of Gottingen, Germany) Elchanan Mossel (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) Luay Nakhleh (Rice University, USA) Macha Nikolski (Université Bordeaux, France) Uwe Ohler (Duke University, USA) Laxmi Parida (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA) Kunsoo Park (Seoul National University, Korea) Ron Pinter (Israel Institute of Technology, Israel) Cinzia Pizzi (University of Padova, Italy) David Posada (University of Vigo, Spain) Sven Rahmann (U. Dortmund, Germany) Ben Raphael (Brown University, USA) Knut Reinert (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) Allen Rodrigo (U. Auckland, NZ) Mikhail Roytberg (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia) Marie-France Sagot (Université Claude Bernard, Lyon I, France) Steven Salzberg (University of Maryland, USA) (co-chair) David Sankoff (University of Ottawa, Canada) Mona Singh (Princeton University, USA) Saurabh Sinha (University of Illinois, USA) Steven Skiena (SUNY Stony Brook, USA) Peter Stadler (Universität Leipzig, Germany) Alexis Stamatakis (Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, Germany) Jens Stoye (Universität Bielefeld, Germany) Jijun Tang (University of South Carolina, USA) Glenn Tesler (UC San Diego, USA) Olga Troyanskaya (Princeton University, USA) Alfonso Valencia (Structural and Computational Biology Programme, Spain) Li-San Wang (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Lusheng Wang (City University of Hong Kong, HK) Tandy Warnow (University of Texas, USA) (co-chair) Chris Workman (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)