Steering Committee

• André C.P.L. de Carvalho (USP, Brazil) - chair
• Carlos Eduardo Ferreira (USP, Brazil)
• Kátia Guimarães (UFPE, Brazil)
• Francisco M. Salzano (UFRGS, Brazil)
• João Carlos Setubal (Virginia Tech, USA)
• Osmar Norberto de Sousa (PUC-RS, Brazil)
• Sérgio Lifschitz (PUC-Rio, Brazil)

Program Chairs

• Carlos E. Ferreira (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
• Satoru Miyano (University of Tokyo, Japan)
• Peter F. Stadler (University of Leipzig, Germany)

Program Committee

• Emil Alexov (Clemson University, USA)
• Nalvo F. Almeida Jr. (UFMS, Brazil)
• Masanori Arita (University of Tokyo, Japan)
• Junior Barrera (USP, Brazil)
• Ana Lucia C. Bazzan (UFRGS, Brazil)
• Igor Berezovsky (University of Bergen, Norway)
• Marcelo M. Brigido (UnB, Brazil)
• André C.P.L. Carvalho (USP, Brazil)
• Saikat Chakrabarti (NCBI, NIH, USA)
• Frank Dehne (Carleton University, Canada)
• Zanoni Dias (Unicamp, Brazil)
• Jessica Fong (NCBI, NIH, USA)
• Oxana Galzitskaya (Inst. of Protein Science, Russia)
• Kátia S. Guimarães (UFPE, Brazil)
• Ronaldo F. Hashimoto (USP, Brazil)
• Paul Horton (AIST, Japan)
• Maricel Kahn (UMBC, USA)
• Carl Kingsford (UMIACS, UMD, USA)
• Kengo Kinoshita (Tohoku University, Japan)
• Eugene Krissinel (EBI, UK)
• Ney Lemke (UNESP, Brazil)
• Thomas Madej (NIH , USA)
• Wojtek Makalowski (University Münster, Germany)
• Ion Mandoiu (University of Connecticut, USA)
• Natalia F. Martins (Embrapa, Brazil)
• Wellington S. Martins (UFG, Brazil)
• Hideo Matsuda (Osaka University, Japan)
• José Carlos M. Mombach (UFSM, Brazil)
• Ron Pinter (Tecknion, Israel)
• Marie-France Sagot (University Lyon, France)
• Cenk Sahinalp (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
• Francisco M. Salzano (UFRGS, Brazil)
• Hagit Shatkay (Queen's University, Canada)
• Benjamin Shoemaker (NIH, USA)
• Mona Singh (Princeton, USA)
• Marcilio M.C.P. Souto (UFRN, Brazil)
• Jurek Tiuryn (University of Warsaw, Poland)
• Maria Emilia T. Walter (UnB, Brazil)
• Ryo Yoshida (Inst. of Statistical Math., Japan)
• Alex Zelikovsky (Georgia State University, Brazil)
• Jie Zheng (NIH, USA)
• Anna Panchenko (NIH, USA)
• Teresa Przytycka (NIH, USA)
• Alexander Schliep (Rutgers, USA)