Tatsuya Akutsu, Kyoto University Anne Bergeron, Universite du Quebec a Montreal Paola Bonizzoni, Università di Milano-Bicocca Lenore Cowen, Tufts University Jo Dicks, Quadram Institute Bioscience Mohammed El-Kebir, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Nadia El-Mabrouk, University of Montreal Liliana Florea, Johns Hopkins University Anna Gambin, Warsaw University Dan Gusfield, UC Davis, co-chair Bjarni Halldorsson, deCODE genetics and Reykjavik University Marc Hellmuth, University Greifswald Barbara Holland, University of Tasmania Katharina Huber, University of East Anglia, co-chair Carl Kingsford, Carnegie Mellon University Gunnar W. Klau, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf Manuel Lafond, Université de Sherbrooke Yu Lin, Australian National University Zsuzsanna Liptak, University of Verona Bernard Moret, Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne Burkhard Morgenstern, University of Goettingen Vincent Moulton, University of East Anglia Luay Nakhleh, Rice University Kay Nieselt, University of Tübingen Jian Peng, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Nadia Pisanti, Universita di Pisa & Erable Team, INRIA Mihai Pop, University of Maryland Teresa M Przytycka, National Center of Biotechnology Information, NLM, NIH Sven Rahmann, University of Duisburg-Essen Knut Reinert, FU Berlin Eric Rivals, LIRMM - Université de Montpellier Sebastien Roch, UW Madison Marie-France Sagot, INRIA Grenoble Rhône-Alpes and Université Claude Bernard (Lyon 1) Guillaume Scholz, LIRMM Russell Schwartz, Carnegie Mellon University Celine Scornavacca, SE-M, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, EPHE Blerina Sinaimeri, INRIA William Stafford Noble, University of Washington Alexandros Stamatakis, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies Christian Nørgaard Storm Pedersen, Aarhus University Jens Stoye, Bielefeld University Krister Swenson, CNRS, Université de Montpellier Hélène Touzet , CNRS, CRIStAL, Lille Todd Treangen, Rice University Esko Ukkonen, University of Helsinki Li-San Wang, University of Pennsylvania Lusheng Wang, City University of Hong Kong Tandy Warnow, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Prudence W.H. Wong, University of Liverpool Balaji Venkatachalam, Google Yufeng Wu, University of Connecticut Shibu Yooseph, University of Central Florida Louxin Zhang, National University of Singapore Michal Ziv-Ukelson, Ben Gurion University of the Negev