Tatsuya Akutsu, Kyoto University Vikas Bansal, University of California San Diego Anne Bergeron, Universite du Quebec a Montreal Daniel Brown, University of Waterloo Rita Casadio, University of Bologna Kun-Mao Chao, National Taiwan University Ting Chen, University of Southern California Rayan Chikhi, University of Lille Francis Chin, University of Hong Kong Nadia El-Mabrouk, University of Montreal Gang Fang, Mount Sinai School of Medicine Liliana Florea, Johns Hopkins University Anna Gambin, Warsaw University Katharina Huber, University of East Anglia Rui Jiang, Tsinghua University Carl Kingsford, Carnegie Mellon University Sergey Koren, NBACC Vincent Lacroix, Université Lyon 1 Dominique Lavenier, CNRS / IRISA Ming Li, University of Waterloo Stefano Lonardi, UC Riverside Veli Mäkinen, University of Helsinki Paul Medvedev, Pennsylvania State University Bernard Moret, EPFL Burkhard Morgenstern, University of Goettingen Vincent Moulton, University of East Anglia Niranjan Nagarajan, University of Maryland William Stafford Noble, University of Washington Laurent Noé, University of Lille Aida Ouangraoua, University of Sherbrooke Pierre Peterlongo, Inria Rennes Adam Phillippy, University of Maryland Nadia Pisanti, Universita di Pisa Yann Ponty, CNRS/LIX, Polytechnique Mihai Pop, University of Maryland (co-chair) Teresa Przytycka, NIH Marie-France Sagot, Inria Grenoble Rhône-Alpes and Université Lyon 1 Cenk Sahinalp, Simon Fraser University David Sankoff, University of Ottawa Michael Schatz, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Russell Schwartz, Carnegie Mellon University Jared Simpson, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research Mona Singh, Princeton University Andrew Smith, University of Southern California Jens Stoye, Bielefeld University Krister Swenson, University of Montpellier Haixu Tang, Indiana University Hélène Touzet, University of Lille (co-chair) Todd Treangen, BNBI/NBACC Jerome Waldispuhl, McGill University Tandy Warnow, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Sebastian Will, University Leipzig Xiaohui Xie, University of California Irvine Dong Xu, Univ. of Missouri-Columbia Yuzhen Ye, Indiana University Louxin Zhang, National University of Singapore Xuegong Zhang, Tsinghua University Michal Ziv-Ukelson, Ben Gurion University of the Negev