Tatsuya Akutsu, Kyoto University, Japan Jasmijn Baaijens, TU Delft, Netherlands Djamal Belazzougui, CERIST, Algeria (co-chair) Anne Bergeron, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada Paola Bonizzoni, Universita di Milano-Bicocca, Italy Christina Boucher, University of Florida, USA Marília Braga, Bielefeld University, Germany Cédric Chauve, Simon Fraser University, Canada Rayan Chikhi, CNRS & Institut Pasteur, France Daniel Doerr, University of Duesseldorf, Germany Mohammed El-Kebir, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA 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 Gregory Kucherov, University of Paris Est, France Manuel Lafond, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada Elodie Laine, Sorbonne Université, France Veli Makinen, University of Helsinki, Finland Erin Molloy, University of Maryland College Park, USA Vincent Moulton, University of East Anglia, UK Francesca Nadalin, EMBL-EBI / ITT, Italy, England Gonzalo Navarro, University of Chile, Chile Aïda Ouangraoua, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada (co-chair) Yann Ponty, CNRS & École poly technique, France Teresa Przytycka, NCBI, NIH, USA 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 & Université de Montpellier, France Giovanna Rosone, University of Pisa, Italy Mikaël Salson, Université de Lille, France Alexander Schoenhuth, Bielefeld University, Germany Mingfu Shao, Penn State, US Blerina Sinaimeri, Université Lyon I & INRIA, France Krister Swenson, CNRS & Universite de Montpellier, France Sharma Thankachan, University of Central Florida, USA Alexandru Tomescu, University of Helsinki, Finland Hélène Touzet, CNRS & Université de Lille, France Gianluca Della Vedova, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Tomas Vinar, Comenius University, Slovakia Jérôme Waldispühl, McGill University, Canada Tandy Warnow, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Prudence W.H.Wong, University of Liverpool, UK Michal Ziv-Ukelson, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Louxin Zhang, National University of Singapore, Singapore