Tatsuya Akutsu, Kyoto University Jan Baumbach, University of Southern Denmark Anne Bergeron, Universite du Quebec a Montreal Paola Bonizzoni, università di Milano-Bicocca Alessandra Carbone, Université Pierre et Marie Curie Nadia El-Mabrouk, University of Montreal David Fernández-Baca, Iowa State University Liliana Florea, Johns Hopkins University Anna Gambin, Institute of Informatics, Warsaw University Faraz Hach, Simon Fraser University Iman Hajirasouliha, Cornell University Bjarni Halldorsson, deCODE genetics and Reykjavik University Michiaki Hamada, Waseda University Katharina Huber, University of East Anglila Daniel Huson, University of Tuebingen Carl Kingsford, Carnegie Mellon University Gunnar W. Klau, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf Gregory Kucherov, CNRS/LIGM Timo Lassmann, Telethon Kids Yu Lin, Australian National University Zsuzsanna Liptak, University of Verona Stefano Lonardi, UC Riverside Gerton Lunter, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics Thomas Mailund, Aarhus University Veli Mäkinen, University of Helsinki Anish Man Singh Shrestha Ion Mandoiu, University of Connecticut Paul Medvedev, Pennsylvania State University Bernard Moret, EPFL Burkhard Morgenstern, University of Goettingen Vincent Moulton, University of East Anglia Robert Patro, Carnegie Mellon University Christian Nørgaard Storm Pedersen, Aarhus University Nadia Pisanti, Universita di Pisa, Italy & Erable Team, INRIA Mihai Pop, University of Maryland Teresa Przytycka, NIH Sven Rahmann, University of Duisburg-Essen Knut Reinert, FU Berlin (co-chair) Marie-France Sagot, INRIA Grenoble Rhône-Alpes and Université de Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France Mikaël Salson, Université Lille 1 Kengo Sato, Keio University Michael Schatz, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Marcel Schulz, Saarland University Russell Schwartz, Carnegie Mellon University (co-chair) Mingfu Shao Kana Shimizu, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Jens Stoye, Bielefeld University Krister Swenson, Université de Montpellier Hélène Touzet, University of Lille and INRIA Lusheng Wang, City University of Hong Kong Shiboo Yooseph Alex Zelikovsky, GSU Louxin Zhang, National University of Singapore Shaojie Zhang, University of Central Florida Michal Ziv-Ukelson, Ben Gurion University of the Negev