Tatsuya Akutsu, Kyoto U., Japan Jan Baumbach, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken, Germany Tanya Berger-Wolf, U. Illinois, Chicago, USA Sebastian Böcker, U. Jena, Germany Paola Bonizzoni, Università Degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy Dan Brown, U. Waterloo, Canada Michael Brudno, University of Toronto, Canada Robert Castelo, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Benny Chor, Tel Aviv University, Israel Lenore Cowen, Tufts University, USA Nadia El-Mabrouk, University of Montreal, Canada Eleazar Eskin, UCLA, USA Liliana Florea, U. Maryland, USA Ana Teresa Freitas, INESC-ID/IST Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal Anna Gambin, Warsaw University, Poland Olivier Gascuel, University of Montpellier, France Raffaele Giancarlo, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy Dan Gusfield, University of California, Davis, USA Ivo Hofacker, Universität Wien, Austria Barbara Holland, University of Tasmania, Australia Daniel Huson, Universität Tübingen, Germany Igor Jurisica, University of Toronto, Canada Carl Kingsford, University of Maryland, College Park, USA Gunnar Klau, CWI Amsterdam, The Netherlands Mehmet Koyuturk, Case Western Reserve University, USA Jens Lagergren, KTH, Sweden Hans-Peter Lenhof, University of Saarbrücken, Germany Stefano Lonardi, UC Riverside, USA Christine Leslie, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA Ion Mandoiu, U. Connecticut, USA Satoru Miyano, Human Genome Center, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan Bernard M.E. Moret, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Switzerland Burkhard Morgenstern, U. Göttingen, Germany Vincent Moulton, University of East Anglia, UK Gene W. Myers, Janelia Farms Research Campus, USA Itsik Pe’er, Columbia University, New York, USA Nadia Pisanti, U. Pisa, Italy Teresa Przytycka, NCBI, NLM, NIH, USA (co-chair) Knut Reinert, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Juho Rousu, University of Helsinki, Finland Yvan Saeys, Ghent University, Belgium Marie-France Sagot, INRIA, U. Lyon, France (co-chair) Cenk Sahinalp, Simon Fraser University, Canada David Sankoff, University of Ottawa, Canada Thomas Schiex, INRA Toulouse, France Russell Schwartz, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Stefan Schuster, U. Jena, Germany Charles Semple, Canterbury U., New Zealand Mona Singh, Princeton University, USA Saurabh Sinha, University of Illinois, USA Jörg Stelling, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland Leen Stougie, Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands Jens Stoye, University of Bielefeld, Germany Michael Stumpf, Imperial College London, UK Jerzy Tiuryn, University of Warsaw, Poland Hélène Touzet, LIFL Université de Lille 1, France Alfonso Valencia, Structural and Computational Biology Group, Spain Lusheng Wang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Chris Workman, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Alex Zelikovsky, Georgia State University, USA Louxin Zhang, National University of Singapore, Singapore Michal Ziv-Ukelson, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Elena Zotenko, Garvan Institute, Australia