Tatsuya Akutsu, Kyoto University, Japan Carl Barton, EBI, UK Anne Bergeron, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada Paola Bonizzoni, Università di Milano􏰀Bicocca, Italy Christina Boucher, University of Florida, USA Alessandra Carbone, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France Rayan Chikhi, Pasteur Institute, France Lenore Cowen, Tufts University, USA Gianluca Della Vedova, University of Milano􏰀Bicocca, Italy Nadia El􏰀Mabrouk, University of Montreal, Canada Anna Gambin, Warsaw University, Poland Raffaele Giancarlo, University of Palermo, Italy Dan Gusfield, UC Davis, USA Bjarni Halldorsson, deCODE genetics and Reykjavik University, Iceland Katharina Huber, University of East Anglia, UK Carl Kingsford, Carnegie Mellon University, USA (co􏰀chair) Gunnar Klau, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany Gregory Kucherov, University of Paris Est, France Ritu Kundu, National University of Singapore, Singapore Manuel Lafond, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada Stefano Lonardi, University of California Riverside, USA Veli Makinen, University of Helsinki, Finland Guillaume Marçais, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Tobias Marschall, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany Bernard Moret, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Vincent Moulton, University of East Anglia, UK Luay Nakhleh, Rice University, USA William Stafford Noble, University of Washington, USA Nadia Pisanti, University of Pisa, Italy (co􏰀chair) Solon Pissis, CWI Amsterdam, the Netherlands Alberto Policriti, University of Udine, Italy Mihai Pop, University of Maryland, USA Teresa Przytycka NCBI, NIH, USA Sven Rahmann, University of Duisburg􏰀Essen, Germany Knut Reinert, FU Berlin, Germany Eric Rivals, LIRMM 􏰀 Université de Montpellier, France Giovanna Rosone, University of Pisa, Italy Marie􏰀France Sagot, INRIA Rhône􏰀Alpes, France Alexander Schoenhuth, Bielefeld University, Germany Jens Stoye, Bielefeld University, Germany Krister Swenson, CNRS & Université de Montpellier, France Sharma Thankachan, University of Central Florida, USA Alexandru Tomescu, University of Helsinki, Finland Hélène Touzet, CNRS, CRIStAL Lille, France Esko Ukkonen, University of Helsinki, Finland Tomas Vinar, Comenius University, Slovakia Tandy Warnow, University of Illinois at Urbana􏰀Champaign, USA Prudence W.H.Wong, University of Liverpool, UK Louxin Zhang, National University of Singapore, Singapore Michal Ziv􏰀Ukelson, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel