ECCB'12 Conference chairs:

Torsten Schwede, chair, SIB and Biozentrum, University of Basel, CH.

Dagmar Iber, co-chair, SIB and D-BSSE, ETHZ, Basel, CH.

ECCB'12 Steering Committee:

Anna Tramontano (chair), La Sapienza University Rome, Italy.

Janet Thornton, EBI European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK.

Michal Linial, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.

Ron Appel, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland.

Alfonso Valencia, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncologicas, Madrid, Spain.

Yves Moreau, University of Leuven, Belgium.

Martin Vingron, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany.

ECCB'12 area chairs:

Applied and Translational Bioinformatics

Julio Saez-Rodriguez, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI).

Ioannis Xenarios, University of Lausanne & SIB, CH.

Bioimaging, Spatial-temporal Modeling and Data Visualization

Sean O'Donoghue, CSIRO & Garvan Inst., Australia

Dagmar Iber, SIB & D-BSSE, ETHZ, Basel, CH.

Bioinformatics of Health and Disease, Biomarkers and Personalized Medicine

Yves Moreau, University of Leuven, Belgium.

Niko Beerenwinkel, SIB and D-BSSE, ETHZ, Basel, CH.

Databases, Ontologies, and Text Mining

Alfonso Valencia, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncologicas, Madrid, Spain.

Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI).

Evolution, Phylogeny, and Comparative Genomics

Nicolas Galtier, CNRS, Université Montpellier 2,France.

Marc Robinson-Rechavi, University of Lausanne & SIB, CH.

Macromolecular Structure, Dynamics and Function

Anna Tramontano, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.

Torsten Schwede, SIB and Biozentrum, University of Basel, CH.

Mutations, Variations, and Population Genomics

Richard Durbin, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK.

Sven Bergmann, University of Lausanne & SIB, CH.

Protein Interactions, Molecular Networks, and Proteomics

Rob Russel, University of Heidelberg, Germany.

Christian von Mering, University of Zurich & SIB, CH.

Regulation, Pathways, and Systems Biology

Thomas Höfer, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Germany.

Fabian Theis,Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany.

Sequencing and Sequence Analysis

Martin Vingron, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany.

Gaston Gonnet, ETH Zürich & SIB, CH.

Technology and Software (TechTrack)

Jacques Rougemont, EPFL, Lausanne, CH.

Gert Vriend, Centre for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics, Nijmegen, Netherlands.

Workshops and Tutorials

Frederique Lisacek, SIB and University of Geneva, CH.

ECCB'12 Poster Chair

Michael Stadler, Poster chair, SIB & FMI Friedrich Miescher Institut, Basel, CH.

ECCB'12 Program Committee:

Mohamed Abouelhoda, Jan Aerts, Pankaj Agarwal, Christian Ahrens, Mario Albrecht, Patrick Aloy, Gregoire Altan-Bonnet, Andre Altmann, Inka Appel, Kazuharu Arakawa, Saul Ares, Susanna Assunto-Sansone, Philip Awadalla, Francisco Azuaje, Rolf Backofen, Ruth Baker, Matteo Barberis, Geoff Barton, Thomas Bataillon, Alex Bateman, Michael Beckstette, Niko Beerenwinkel, Tim Beißbarth, Asa Ben-Hur, Nir Ben-Tal, Sven Bergmann, Andreas Bergner, Simon Berneche, Conrad Bessant, Joanna Betts, Inanc Birol, Judith Blake, Nils Blüthgen, Brigitte Boeckmann, Danail Bonchev, Paola Bonizzoni, Lorenza Bordoli, Erich Bornberg-Bauer, Anne-Laure Boulesteix, Phil Bourne, Yana Bromberg, David Bryant, Javier Buceta Fernández, Janusz Bujnicki, Anita Burgun-Parenthoine, Hauke Busch, Rainer Böckmann, Carlos Camacho, Alessandra Carbone, Robert Castelo, Rui Chen, Jeong-Hyeon Choi, Andrea Cilibierto, Kevin Cohen, Lachlan Coin, Nigel Collier, Attila Csikasz-Nagy, Antoine Danchin, Thomas Dandekar, Vincent Daubin, Hidde de Jong, Xavier De La Cruz, Renee de Menezes, Renee de Menezes, Dick de Ridder, Jeroen de Ridder, Charlotte Deane, Mauro Delorenzi, Emmanouil Dermitzakis, Christophe Dessimoz, Diego Di Bernardo, Andreas Doncic, Jean-Philippe Doyon, Ivana Drobnjak, Richard Durbin, Omer Dushek, Martin Ebeling, Oliver Ebenhöh, Richard Edwards, Georg Ehret, Laurent Excoffier, Adam Eyre-Walker, Laurent Falquet, Juan Fernandez Recio, Thilo Figge, Samuel Flores, Paul François, Franca Fraternali, Erwin Frey, Caroline Friedel, Dmitrij Frishman, Holger Froehlich, Toni Gabaldon, Julien Gagneur, Nicolas Galtier, Tomas Gedeon, Olivier Gevaert, Robert Giegerich, Alejandro Giorgetti, Georgios Gkoutos, Giorgio Gonnella, Gaston Gonnet, Berthold Gottgens, Stephan Grill, Andre Gruning, Nicolas Guex, Jürgen Haas, Stefan Haas, Dieter Heermann, Manuela Helmer-Citterich, Jean-Karim Heriche, Jaap Heringa, Henning Hermjakob, Ryan Hernandez, Carl Herrmann, Ralf Herwig, Des Higgins, Michael Hiller, Robert Hoehndorf, Ivo Hofacker, Daniel Hoffmann, Steve Hoffmann, Liisa Holm, Frank Holstege, Hermann-Georg Holzhütter, Rob Hooft, Simon Hubbard, Wolfgang Huber, Martin Huynen, Thomas Höfer, Mark Ibberson, Dagmar Iber, Francesco Iorio, Christian Iseli, Kevin Janes, Alfonso Jaramillo, Klaus Jung, Igor Jurisica, Olga Kalinina, Guy Karlebach, Kazutaka Katoh, Laurence Kelley, Janet Kelso, Patrick Kemmeren, Philipp Khaitovich, Jin-Dong Kim, Jung-Jae Kim, Philip Kim, Wing Kin Sung, Martin Kircher, Hisanori Kiryu, Thomas Klabunde, Gunnar Klau, Judith Klein-Seetharaman, Carole Knibbe, Heinz Koeppl, Oliver Kohlbacher, Rachel Kolodny, Jan Korbel, Sergei Kosakovsky Pond, Roland Krause, Michael Krauthammer, Andriy Kryshtafovych, Gregory Lefebvre, Matthieu Legendre, Hans-Peter Lehnhof, Thomas Lengauer, Ulf Leser, Christina Leslie, Mingyao Li, Hao Lin, Yao-Cheng Lin, Michal Linial, Frederique Lisacek, Hongfang Liu, Nuria Lopez-Bigas, Philip Lord, Daniel MacArthur, Matthias Machacek, Ulrich Mansmann, Paolo Marcatili, John Marioni, Florian Markowetz, Brian Marsden, Lennart Martens, Marc Marti-Renom, Mark McCarthy, Liam McGuffin, Alice McHardy, Dzianis Menshykau, Michael Meyer Hermann, Anke Meyer-Baese, George Michailidis, Andrey Mironov, Shabaz Mohammed, Carmen Molina-Paris, Stephen Montgomery, Sean Mooney, Yves Moreau, Burkhard Morgenstern, Simon Moxon, Matthieu Muffato, Chris Mungall, Felix Naef, Markus Nebel, Goran Nenadic, Zoran Nikoloski, Michael Nilges, Zemin Ning, Magnus Nordborg, Cedric Notredame, John Novembre, Seán O'Donoghue, Jean-Christophe Olivo-Marin, Christine Orengo, Marco Pagni, Jong Park, Kiran Patil, Sabine Peres, Herve Philippe, David Posada, Jaime Prilusky, Nataša Pržulj, Miguel Angel Pujana, Tal Pupko, Zhaohui Qin, Jörg Rahnenführer, Domenico Raimondo, Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, David Rand, Ben Raphael, Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann, Knut Reinert, Bernhard Renard, Samuli Ripatti, David Ritchie, Eric Rivals, Mark Robinson, Peter Robinson, Marc Robinson-Rechavi, Stephane Rombauts, Michal Rosen-Zvi, Volker Roth, Jacques Rougemont, Rob Russell, Andrey Rzhetsky, Gunnar Rätsch, Sten Rüdiger, Julio Saez-Rodriguez, Nicolas Salamin, Michael Sammeth, Ivo Sbalzarini, Jörg Schaber, Wolfgang Schamel, Avner Schlesinger, Alexander Schliep, Adrian Schneider, Birgit Schoeberl, Michael Schroeder, Jörg Schultz, Marcel Schulz, Stefan Schulz, Stefan Schuster, Russel Schwartz, Torsten Schwede, Celine Scornavacca, Joachim Selbig, Nigam Shah, Roded Sharan, Noam Shomron, Barry Smith, Berend Snel, Johannes Soeding, Ingolf Sommer, Rainer Spang, Alexandros Stamatakis, Oliver Stegle, Jörg Stelling, Robert Stevens, Jens Stoye, Korbinian Strimmer, Josh Stuart, Joakim Sundnes, Eric Tannier, Fabian Theis, Denis Thieffry, Paul Thomas, Peter Tieleman, Jerzy Tiuryn, Anna Tramontano, Achim Tresch, Ala Trusina, Jerry Tsai, David Umulis, Sandor Vajda, Ilya Vakser, Alfonso Valencia, Roeland van Ham, Jacques van Helden, Antoine van Kampen, Erik van Nimwegen, Vera van Noort, Ceslovas Venclovas, Jean-Philippe Vert, Martin Vingron, Arndt von Haeseler, Christian von Mering, Gert Vriend, Thomas Walter, John Welch, Lodewyk Wessels, Simon Whelan, Edgar Wingender, Ernst Wit, Shoshana Wodak, Jerome Wojcik, Jana Wolf, Verena Wolf, Haim Wolfson, Stephen Wong, Carolina Wählby, Ioannis Xenarios, Julien Yann Dutheil, Mihaela Zavolan, Daniel Zerbino, Louxin Zhang, Xiuwei Zhang, Ralf Zimmer, Andrei Zinovyev.

Local Organization Team:

Torsten Schwede (chair)
Katja Jenni (Project Management)
Sarah Güthe (Meeting Logistics)

Rita Manohar (Registration)
Yvonne Steger (Meeting Logistics)
Lorenza Bordoli (Meeting Logistics)
Jocelyne Bocquet (Finances)
Irene Perovsek (Public Relations)

Andrew Waterhouse (Web Systems)

Jan Welker (Web Systems)

Konstantin Arnold (Web Systems)
Melissa Davies (Fundraising)

Billboard Design Agentur (Graphics & Web Design)

Contact Information:

ECCB12 will be organized by the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and Biozentrum University of Basel. For information about ECCB12 in Basel, please contact:

ECCB'12
c/o Prof. Torsten Schwede
SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Biozentrum University of Basel
Klingelbergstrasse 50-70
CH 4056 Basel, Switzerland

info@eccb12.org
http://eccb12.org