Mohamed Abouelhoda, Cairo University, Egypt Tatsuya Akutsu, Kyoto University, Japan Anne Bergeron, University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada Sebastian Böcker, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany Paola Bonizzoni, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Guillaume Bourque, McGill University, Canada Marilia D. V. Braga, Inmetro, Brazil C. Titus Brown, Michigan State University, USA Daniel Brown, University of Waterloo, Canada David Bryant, University of Otago, New Zealand Philipp Bucher, Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research, Switzerland Rita Casadio, UNIBO, Italy Cedric Chauve, Simon Fraser University, Canada Benny Chor, Tel Aviv University, Israel Lachlan Coin, The University of Queensland, Australia Lenore Cowen, Tufts University, USA Keith Crandall, George Washington University, USA Aaron Darling (co-chair), University of Technology Sydney, Australia Nadia El-Mabrouk, University of Montreal, Canada Eleazar Eskin, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Liliana Florea, Johns Hopkins University, USA Martin Frith, CBRC, AIST, Japan Anna Gambin, Warsaw University, Poland Olivier Gascuel, IBC & LIRMM, CNRS - University Montpellier 2, France Nicholas Hamilton, The University of Queensland, Australia Barbara Holland, University of Tasmania, Australia Katharina Huber, University of East Anglia, UK Carl Kingsford, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Jinyan Li, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Zsuzsanna Lipták, University of Verona, Italy Stefano Lonardi, UC Riverside, USA Veli Mäkinen, University of Helsinki, Finland Ion Mandoiu, University of Connecticut, USA Giovanni Manzini, University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy Paul Medvedev, Pennsylvania State University, USA Joao Meidanis, University of Campinas / Scylla Bioinformatics, Brazil Istvan Miklos, Renyi Institute, Hungary Satoru Miyano, University of Tokyo, Japan Bernard Moret, EPFL, Switzerland Burkhard Morgenstern, University of Goettingen, Germany Vincent Moulton, University of East Anglia, UK Gene Myers, MPI Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany Luay Nakhleh, Rice University, USA Nadia Pisanti, University of Pisa, Italy and Leiden University, The Netherlands Teresa Przytycka, NIH, USA Sven Rahmann, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Ben Raphael, Brown University, USA Knut Reinert, FU Berlin, Germany Marie-France Sagot, Inria Grenoble Rhône-Alpes and Université de Lyon 1, France S. Cenk Sahinalp, Simon Fraser University, Canada David Sankoff, University of Ottawa, Canada Russell Schwartz, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Joao Setubal, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil Saurabh Sinha, University of Illinois, USA Jens Stoye (co-chair), Bielefeld University, Germany Krister Swenson, Université de Montréal / McGill University, Canada Jijun Tang, University of South Carolina, USA Eric Tannier, Inria, France Glenn Tesler, University of California, San Diego, USA Lusheng Wang, City University of Hong Kong, China Yuzhen Ye, Indiana University, USA Louxin Zhang, National University of Singapore, Singapore Michal Ziv-Ukelson, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel