Tatsuya Akutsu, Kyoto University, Japan Marco Antoniotti, Universita di Milano-Bicocca, Italy Anne Bergeron, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada Paola Bonizzoni, Universita di Milano-Bicocca, Italy Christina Boucher, University of Florida, USA Alessandra Carbone, Sorbonne Universite, France (co-chair) Rayan Chikhi, Institut Pasteur, France Leonid Chindelevitch, Imperial College London, UK Lenore Cowen, Tufts University, USA Daniel Doerr, University of Duesseldorf, Germany Mohammed El-Kebir, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA (co-chair) Nadia El-Mabrouk, University of Montreal, Canada Anna Gambin, Warsaw University, Poland Bjarni Halldorsson, deCODE genetics and Reykjavik University, Iceland Katharina Huber, University of East Anglia, UK Carl Kingsford, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Gunnar Klau, Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf, Germany Gregory Kucherov, University of Paris Est, France Manuel Lafond, Universite de Sherbrooke, Canada Elodie Laine, Sorbonne Universite, France Yu Lin, Austrialia National University, Australia Stefano Lonardi, University of California Riverside, USA Veli Makinen, University of Helsinki, Finland Guillaume Marcais, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Tobias Marschall, Heinrich Heine University, Germany Erin Molloy, University of Maryland College Park / UCLA, US Bernard Moret, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland Vincent Moulton, University of East Anglia, UK Francesca Nadalin, EMBL-EBI / ITT, Italy, England Mihai Pop, University of Maryland, USA Teresa Przytycka, NCBI, NIH, USA William Stafford Noble, University of Washington, USA Aida Ouangraoua, Universite de Sherbrooke, Canada Ion Petre, Turku University, Finland Nadia Pisanti, University of Pisa, Italy Solon Pissis, CWI Amsterdam, the Netherlands Alberto Policriti, University of Udine, Italy Sven Rahmann, Saarland University, Germany Knut Reinert, FU Berlin, Germany Eric Rivals, LIRMM - Universite de Montpellier, France Sebastien Roch, University of Wisconsin Madison, US Giovanna Rosone, University of Pisa, Italy Marie-France Sagot, INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France Alexander Schoenhuth, Bielefeld University, Germany Mingfu Shao, Penn State, US Jens Stoye, Bielefeld University, Germany Krister Swenson, CNRS and Universite de Montpellier, France Ewa Szczurek, Warsaw University, Poland Sharma Thankachan, University of Central Florida, USA Alexandru Tomescu, University of Helsinki, Finland Helene Touzet, CNRS, France Esko Ukkonen, University of Helsinki, Finland Gianluca Della Vedova, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Tomas Vinar, Comenius University, Slovakia Prudence W.H.Wong, University of Liverpool, UK Tandy Warnow, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Simone Zaccaria, UCL Cancer Institute, UK Louxin Zhang, National University of Singapore, Singapore Xiuwei Zhang, Georgia Tech, US Michal Ziv-Ukelson, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel