Tatsuya Akutsu Kyoto U., Japan Max Alekseyev University of South Carolina, USA Sebastian Böcker U. Jena, Germany Mathieu Blanchette McGill University, Canada Guillaume Blin Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France Paola Bonizzoni Universit di Milano-Bicocca, Italy Daniel Brown University of Waterloo, Canada Philipp Bucher Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Switzerland Lenore Cowen Tufts University, USA Minghua Deng Peking University, China Pufeng Du Tianjin University, China Nadia El-Mabrouk University of Montreal, Canada Yue Feng University of California, San Diego, USA Guillaume Fertin University of Nantes, France Liliana Florea Johns Hopkins University, USA Anna Gambin Warsaw University, Poland Olivier Gascuel University of Montpellier, France Katharina Huber University of East Anglia, UK Daniel Huson Universität Tübingen, Germany Carl Kingsford University of Maryland, College Park, USA Jim Leebens-Mack University of Georgia, USA Xinghua Lu University of Pittsburgh, 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 Luay Nakhleh Rice University, USA Macha Nikolski U. Bordeaux, France Ron Pinter Technion, Israel Nadia Pisanti U. Pisa, Italy Mihai Pop University of Maryland, USA Teresa Przytycka NCBI, NLM, NIH, USA Tal Pupko Tel-Aviv University, Israel Sven Rahmann University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Ben Raphael Brown University, USA (Co-Chair) Marie-France Sagot INRIA, U. Lyon, France David Sankoff University of Ottawa, Canada Thomas Schiex INRA Toulouse, France Russell Schwartz Carnegie Mellon University, USA Charles Semple Canterbury U., New Zealand Roded Sharan Tel-Aviv University, Israel Jingna Si Beijing Forestry University, China Joerg Stelling Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland Leen Stougie Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands Jens Stoye University of Bielefeld, Germany Krister Swenson University of Montreal, Canada Jijun Tang University of South Carolina, USA/Tianjin University, China (Co-Chair) Glenn Tesler University of California, San Diego, USA Jerzy Tiuryn University of Warsaw, Poland Lusheng Wang City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Li-San Wang University of Pennsylvania, USA ChristopherWorkman Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Alex Zelikovsky Georgia State University, USA Ziding Zhang China Agricultural University, China Xiuwei Zhang Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Switzerland Louxin Zhang National University of Singapore, Singapore Meng Zhang Jilin University, China