Mohamed Abouelhoda, Cairo University Tatsuya Akutsu, Kyoto University Anne Bergeron, Universite du Quebec a Montreal Sebastian Böcker, Friedrich Schiller University Jena Paola Bonizzoni, Universit di Milano-Bicocca Marilia Braga, Inmetro - Ditel Broňa Brejová, Comenius University in Bratislava C.Titus Brown, Michigan State University Dan Brown (co-chair), University of Waterloo Philipp Bucher, Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research Rita Casadio, UNIBO Cedric Chauve, Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University Matteo Comin, Dept. Information Engineering, University of Padova Lenore Cowen, Tufts University Keith Crandall, George Washington University Nadia El-Mabrouk, University of Montreal David Fernández-Baca, Iowa State University Anna Gambin, Institute of Informatics, Warsaw University Olivier Gascuel, LIRMM, CNRS - Universit Montpellier 2 Raffaele Giancarlo, Dipartimento di Matematica Universita di Palermo Nicholas Hamilton, The University of Queensland Barbara Holland, University of Tasmania Katharina Huber, University of East Anglila Steven Kelk, Department of Knowledge Engineering, University of Maastricht Carl Kingsford, Carnegie Mellon University Gregory Kucherov, CNRS/LIGM Zsuzsanna Liptak, University of Verona Stefano Lonardi, UC Riverside Veli Mäkinen, Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki Ion Mandoiu, University of Connecticut Giovanni Manzini, University of Eastern Piedmont Paul Medvedev, University of California, San Diego Irmtraud Meyer, University of British Columbia István Miklós, Renyi Institute, Budapest Satoru Miyano, University of Tokyo Bernard Moret, EPFL, Montpellier Burkhard Morgenstern (co-chair), University of Göttingen Vincent Moulton, University of East Anglia Luay Nakhleh, Rice University Nadia Pisanti, Dipartimento di Informatica, Universita di Pisa Mihai Pop, University of Maryland Teresa Przytycka, NIH Sven Rahmann, University of Duisburg-Essen Marie-France Sagot, INRIA Grenoble Rhône-Alpes and Université de Lyon S. Cenk Sahinalp, Simon Fraser University David Sankoff, University of Ottawa Russell Schwartz, Carnegie Mellon University Joao Setubal, University of São Paulo Peter F. Stadler, University of Leipzig Jens Stoye, Bielefeld University Krister Swenson, Université de Montréal / McGill University Jijun Tang, University of South Carolina Lusheng Wang, CS Dept., City Univ. of HK Louxin Zhang, National University of Singapore Michal Ziv-Ukelson, Ben Gurion University of the Negev