Directly preceding Tutorials' Day of ISMB 2008
18 July 2008 @ Metro Toronto Convention Center

Registration

Committees

Chairs

Lucia Peixoto, Conference Chair
Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

Amr Abuzeid, Conference Co-Chair
Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Sarath Chandra Janga, Program
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Prashanth Suravajhala, Publicity
Institute for Science, Systems and Models, Roskilde University, Greater Copenhagen, Denmark

Daniel Samarov, Fundraising
Department of Statistics and Operations Research, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA

Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern, Visual Reflection on Science
Structural Biology & Molecular Cell Biology Departments, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Advisors

Nils Gehlenborg
EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK and
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Manuel Corpas
EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK

Organizing Committee

Noura Chelbat, Fundraising
Institute of Bioinformatics, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria

Saras Saraswathi, Fundraising
Iowa State University, Ames, USA

Jimmy Lin, Keynote Liaison
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, USA

Magali Michaut, Keynote Liaison
Institute of Biology and Technologies of Saclay, CEA, France

Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern, Social Event
Structural Biology & Molecular Cell Biology Departments, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Teresa Szczepinska, Publicity
Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Laboratory, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Alexandr Goncearenco, Publicity
Computational Biology Unit, Bergen Center for Computational Science, UNIFOB AS/University of Bergen, Norway

Thomas Abeel, Publicity
Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

Abhishek Pratap, Publicity
Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, USA and
VIT University, Vellore, India

Program Committee

Amr Abuzeid
Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Sarath Chandra Janga
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Alexandr Goncearenco
Computational Biology Unit, Bergen Center for Computational Science, UNIFOB AS/University of Bergen, Norway

Surya Saha
Mississippi Genome Exploration Laboratory, Mississippi State University,
Starkville, USA and Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Mississippi
State University, Starkville, USA

Abhishek Pratap
Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, USA and
VIT University, Vellore, India

Noura Chelbat
Institute of Bioinformatics, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria

Magali Michaut
Institute of Biology and Technologies of Saclay, CEA, France

Thomas Abeel
Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

Segun Fatumo
Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria

Lucia Peixoto
Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

Prashanth Suravajhala
Institute for Science, Systems and Models, Roskilde University, Greater Copenhagen, Denmark

Saras Saraswathi
Iowa State University, Ames, USA

Teresa SzczepiƄska
Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Laboratory, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Nils Gehlenborg
EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK and
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Manuel Corpas
EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK

Xu Gu
Bioinformatics Research Centre, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

Florence Cavalli
EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK

Subhajyoti De
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Nitish Mittal
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK

Matias Piipari
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, University of, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Aswin Seshasayee
EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute and
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Juan M Vaquerizas
EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK

Arthur Wuster
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Judith Zaugg
EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK

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