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Program Committee

Program Chairs:

Amarda Shehu, George Mason University, USA
Tamer Kahveci, University of Florida, USA
Giuseppe Pozzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy


Program Committee List of Track co-chairs:

Systems Biology:

Wei Wang, UCLA
Yang Cao, Virginia Tech
Ferhat Ay, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology

Automated Diagnosis and Prediction:

Xiaoqian Jiang, UCSD
Eva Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology
J. Paul Brooks, Virginia Commonwealth University

Biological Modeling:

Anna Ritz, Reed College
Pietro Guzzi, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro
Swarup Roy, North-Eastern Hill University, India

Application to Healthcare Processes:

Pierangelo Veltri, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro
Mattia Prosperi, University of Florida
Fei Wang, Cornell University

Inferring Phylogenies and Haplotypes:

Oliver Eulenstein, Iowa State University
Mukul Bansal, University of Connecticut
Kevin Liu, Michigan State University

Text Mining and Classification:

Catherine Blake, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Chih-Lin Chi, University of Minnesota
Rezarta Islamaj-Dogan, NIH-NLM

Sequence Analysis and Genome Assembly:

Christina Boucher, University of Florida
Stefano Lonardi, University of California, Riverside
Ben Langmead, Johns Hopkins University

Knowledge Representation Applications:

Beth Britt, University of Washington
Carlo Combi, University of Verona
John Holmes, University of Pennsylvania

Protein Structure and Dynamics:

Juan Cortes, CNRS-LAAS, University of Toulouse
Henry van den Bedem, Stanford University
Jerome Waldispuhl, McGill University

Application to Microbes and Imaging Genetics:

Lin Yang, University of Florida
Kun Huang, Ohio State University
Fuogo Fang, Florida International University

Protein and RNA Analysis:

Ruben Abagyan, UCSD
Alexander G. de Brevern, Univ Paris Diderot

Advancing Algorithms and Methods:

Teresa Przytycka, National Institutes of Health
Jaroslaw Zola, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Kim Yoo-Ah, National Institutes of Health

Genomic Variation and Disease:

Nicolo Fusi, Microsoft Research
Sara Mostafavi, UBC
Zhiping Weng, UMass Medical School

Cancer Genomics:

Ernest Fraenkel, MIT
Russell Schwartz, Carnegie Mellon University
Ben Raphael, Brown University

Big Data in Bioinformatics:

Mehmet Koyuturk, Case Western Reserve University
Ananth Kalyanaraman, Washington State University
Marco Masseroli, Politecnico di Milano

Clinical Databases and Information Systems:

Armin Mikler, University of North Texas
Amar J. Das, IBM
Lucia Sacchi, Universita' di Pavia


Highlights Track Chairs:

Mona Singh, Princeton University
Christopher Bailey-Kellogg, Dartmouth College
Terry Gaasterland, UCSD


Program Committee Members

Ruben Abagyan, UCSD
Hesham Ali, University of Nebraska Omaha
Can Alkan, Bilkent University, Department of Computer Engineering
Tomasz Arodz, Virginia Commonwealth University
Sharon Aviran, UC Davis
Chloé-Agathe Azencott, CBIO (Mines ParisTech - Institut Curie - INSERM)
Mukul S. Bansal, University of Connecticut
Sophie Barbe, LISBP INSA-INRA
Jill Barnholtz-Sloan, Case Western Reserve University
Stéphanie Baud, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne
Gurkan Bebek, Case Western Reserve University
Riccardo Bellazzi, Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica Università di Pavia
Andreas Beyer, University of Cologne
Dhruba Bhattacharyya, Dept of Computer Sc & Engg, Tezpur University
Paola Bonizzoni, università di Milano-Bicocca
Luca Bonomi, University of California San Diego
Serdar Bozdag, Marquette University
Angel Bravo, Miami University
Broňa Brejová, Comenius University in Bratislava
Daniel Brown, University of Waterloo
Tj Brunette, Institute for Protein Design, University of Washington Dept. of Biochemistry
Dominik Budday, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Stefan Canzar, Gene Center Munich
Renzhi Cao, Pacific Lutheran University
Peter Castaldi, Harvard
Frederic Cazals, INRIA Sophia
Varun Chandola, State University of New York at Buffalo
Yi Chen, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Rayan Chikhi, CNRS
Dongyeon Cho, School of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University
A. Ercument Cicek, Carnegie Mellon University
Mark Clement, Brigham Young University
Courtney Corley, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Hector Corrada Bravo, University of Maryland
Salvatore Cuomo, University of Naples Federico II
Wenrui Dai, UCSD
Didier Devaurs, Rice University
Abdoulaye Baniré Diallo, Université du Québec à Montréal
Javier Diaz-Montes, Rutgers University
Gregory Ditzler, University of Arizona
Nadia El-Mabrouk, University of Montreal
Peter Elkin, University at Buffalo
Scott Emrich, University of Notre Dame
Emre Ertin, Ohio State University
Kjiersten Fagnan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Rasmus Fonseca, Stanford University
Paolo Fraccaro, The University of Manchester
Lana Garmire, University of Hawaii Cancer Center
Assefaw Gebremedhin, Washington State University
Andrew Gentles, Stanford University
Anthony Gitter, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Gustavo Glusman, Institute for Systems Biology
Shawn Gomez, UNC-Chapel Hill
Iris Gomez-Lopez, University of Michigan
Pawel Gorecki, University of Warsaw
Ananth Grama, Purdue University
Sergei Grudinin, INRIA Grenoble
Iman Hajirasouliha, Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University
Eric Hall, Cincinnati Children's Hospital
Irina Hashmi, George Mason University
Soha Hassoun, Tufts University
Lenwood Heath, Virginia Tech
Amélie Heliou, Laboratoire d’Informatique de l’Ecole Polytechnique (LIX)
Benjamin Hescott, Tufts University
Joyce Ho, Emory University
Mark Holder, Florida State Univ.
Vasant Honavar, Pennsylvania State University
Antti Honkela, University of Helsinki
Fereydoun Hormozdiari, UC Davis
Lucian Ilie, University of Western Ontario
Saratchandra Indrakanti, eBay
Thomas Ioerger, Texas A&M University
Tina Johnson, Midwestern State University
Jose M. Juarez, University of Murcia
Igor Jurisica, Ontario Cancer Institute
Jugal Kalita, University of Colorado
Sreeram Kannan, University of Washington
Ramakanth Kavuluru, University of Kentucky
Zia Khan, University of Maryland College Park
Sun Kim, NCBI, NLM, NIH
Yejin Kim, POSTECH
Pavel Kraikivski, Virginia Tech
Bala Krishnamoorthy, Washington State University
Rui Kuang, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Cristiana Larizza, Università di Pavia
Eva Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology
Junghye Lee, POSTECH
Mark Leiserson, Microsoft Research
Hans-Peter Lenhof, Center for Bioinformatics, Saarland University
Jing Li, Case Western Reserve University
Ying Li, IBM Research
Yiheng Liang, University of Central Missouri
Michael Linderman, Middlebury College
Hongfang Liu, Mayo Clinic
Kevin Liu, Michigan State University
Yongchao Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology
Hui Lu, University of Illinois at Chicago
Songjian Lu, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Univ. of Pittsburgh
Jian Ma, Carnegie Mellon University
Anant Madabhushi, Case Western Reserve University
Kamesh Madduri, The Pennsylvania State University
Ravi Madduri, Argonne National Laboratory
Shaun Mahony, Pennsylvania State University
Brad Malin, Vanderbilt University
Ion Mandoiu, University of Connecticut
Serghei Mangul, UCLA
Tobias Marschall, Saarland University / Max Planck Institute for Informatics
Jason McDermott, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Emily Jane McTavish, University of California at Merced
Ramgopal Mettu, Tulane University
Folker Meyer, Argonne National Lab
George Michailidis, U of Michigan
Riccardo Miotto, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York
Siavash Mirarab, UCSD
Kevin Molloy, George Mason University
Vincent Moulton, University of East Anglia
T. M. Murali, Virginia Tech
Shilpa Nadimpalli Kobren, Princeton University
Niranjan Nagarajan, Genome Institute of Singapore
Kenney Ng, IBM
Nam-Phuong Nguyen, University of California at San Diego
Olga Nikolova, OHSU
Marty O'Neill, University of North Texas
Layla Oesper, Carleton Collee
Junghwan Oh, University of North Texas
Barbara Oliboni, Department of Computer Science - University of Verona
Asil Oztekin, UMass Lowell
Ranadip Pal, Texas Tech University
Gaurav Pandey, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York
Laxmi Parida, IBM
Rob Patro, Stony Brook University
Son Pham, BioTuring Inc.
Frederic Poitevin, Stanford University
Mihai Pop, University of Maryland
Natasa Przulj, Computer Science Department
Teresa Przytycka, NIH
Xiaoning Qian, Texas A&M
Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, University of Connecticut
Vincent Ranwez, Montpellier SupAgro
Talayeh Razzaghi, New Mexico State University
Jorge Reyes-Silveyra, Muhlenberg College
Anna Ritz, Reed College
Charles Robert, CNRS Paris
Gail Rosen, Drexel University
Maga Rowicka, University of Texas Medical Branch
Sushmita Roy, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Farrant Sakaguchi, University of Utah
Pietro Sala, University of Udine
Leena Salmela, University of Helsinki
Emmanuel Sapin, gmu
Alexander Schliep, Gothenburg University
Alexander Schoenhuth, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
Li Shen, Indiana University School of Medicine
Yang Shen, Texas A&M University
Xinghua Shi, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Pavel Skums, Georgia State University
Nick Street, University of Iowa
Stephen Swift, Brunel University
Ewa Szczurek, University of Warsaw
Haixu Tang, Indiana University
Jijun Tang, University of South Carolina
Paolo Terenziani, University Piemonte Orientale
Sharma V. Thankachan, University of Central Florida
Shawna Thomas, Texas A&M University
Chetan Tiwari, University of North Texas
Giuseppe Tradigo, University of Calabria
Allan Tucker, Brunel University London
Leo van Iersel, Delft University of Technology
Fabio Vandin, Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova
Daniel Veltri, National Institutes of Health
Pierangelo Veltri, Laboratory of Bioinformatics, University of Catanzaro
Karin Verspoor, The University of Melbourne
Tomas Vinar, Comenius University in Bratislava
Bei Wang, SCI Institute, University of Utah
Jason Wang, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Li-San Wang, University of Pennsylvania
Shuang Wang, University of California, San Diego
Tandy Warnow, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Nicole Weiskopf, Oregon Health & Science University
Adam Wright, Harvard Medical School
Lingfei Wu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Yi-Chieh Wu, Harvey Mudd College
Yufeng Wu, University of Connecticut
Damian Wójtowicz, National Institutes of Health, NCBI
Jinbo Xu, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
Naveena Yanamala, CDC/NIOSH
Mary Yang, University of Arkansas
Lana Yeganova, NIH
Habil Zare, Texas State University
Alex Zelikovsky, GSU
Liqing Zhang, Department of CS. Virginia Tech
Louxin Zhang, National University of Singapore
Rui Zhang, University of Minnesota
Yiye Zhang, Weill Cornell Medical
Yize Zhao, Cornell Medical School
Jie Zheng, Nanyang Technological University
Jiayu Zhou, Michigan State University
Li Zhou, Partners Healthcare
Binhai Zhu, Montana State University
Dongxiao Zhu, Wayne State University


Important Dates
Call for Submission Deadline Notification of Acceptance
Papers April 24 June 7
Workshops March 17 March 20
Tutorials March 17 March 20
Highlights May 8 June 7
Posters June 11 June 19

News

ACM-BCB 2017 papers now available through ACM DL

August 17, 2017

ACM-BCB 2017 tutorials are now posted

August 11, 2017

Preliminary program booklet posted

June 22, 2017

Poster submission deadline extended to June 11

May 25, 2017

Registration is open

May 17, 2017

Paper submission deadline extended to April 24

April 8, 2017

ACM-BCB 2017 Call for Posters dates updated

April 8, 2017

ACM-BCB 2017 Call for Highlights is now posted

March 13, 2017

Workshop proposal deadline extended to March 17

March 10, 2017

Venue information is available

January 18, 2017

ACM-BCB 2017 Call for Papers is now posted

January 5, 2017


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