Committees

Steering Committee



Vineet Bafna UC San Diego
Bonnie Berger (chair) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Eleazar Eskin University of California Los Angeles
Teresa Przytycka NCBI, NIH
Cenk Sahinalp NCI, NIH
Roded Sharan Tel Aviv University
Martin Vingron Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics


Program Chair



Haixu Tang Indiana University


Organizing Committee



Co-chairs
Can Alkan (co-chair) Bilkent University
Attila Gürsoy (co-chair) Koç University
Publicity
A. Ercüment Çiçek Bilkent University
Registration
Tunca Doğan Hacettepe University
Satellites
Arzucan Özgür Boğaziçi University
Publication
Öznur Taştan Sabancı University


Highlights Chair



Ferhat AyLa Jolla Institute for Immunology


Keynote Chair



Gamze GürsoyColumbia University / NYGC


Posters Chairs



Iman HajirasoulihaWeill Cornell Medicine
Oğuzhan Külekçiİstanbul Technical University


Travel Fellowships Chairs



Gürkan BebekCase Western Reserve University
Arif HarmancıUniversity of Texas Health Science Center at Houston


Satellite Chairs



RECOMB-Seq
Broňa BrejováComenius University in Bratislava
A. Ercüment ÇiçekBilkent University


RECOMB-CG
Katharina JahnFreie Universität Berlin
Tomáš VinařComenius University in Bratislava


RECOMB-Genetics
Emilia Huerta-SanchezBrown University
Nick MancusoUniversity of Southern California
Sriram SankararamanUniversity of California, Los Angeles


RECOMB-CCB
Giulio CaravagnaUniversity of Trieste
Gabriele SchweikertUniversity of Dundee


Student Volunteers (alphabetical)



Öykü Zeynep Arslan
Sabancı University
Akmuhammet Ashyralyyev
Bilkent University
Mahmud Sami Aydın
Bilkent University
Zeynep Aydın
Koç University
Sina Barazandeh
Bilkent University
Zülal BingölBilkent University
Fatma Cankara
Koç University
Emine Beyza Çandır
Sabancı University
Ezgi EbrenBilkent University
Furkan Eris
Sabancı University
Sevilay GüleşenUniversity of Leipzig
E. Ravza GürUniversity of Oxford
Ecem İlgün
Bilkent University
Can FırtınaETH Zurich
Dilek Koptekin
Middle East Technical University
Taha Koulani
Boğaziçi University
Mekan Myradov
Sabancı University
Sayyed Nozad
Bilkent University
İlke Ökmen
Dokuz Eylül University
Damla Övek
Koç University
Rıza Özçelik
Eindhoven University of Technology
Begüm ÖzemekMax Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, The Free University of Berlin
Ömer Yavuz Öztürk
Bilkent University
Ricardo Roman-Brenes
Bilkent University
Tayfun Tatar
Boğaziçi University
Engin Tatlıdilİzmir Institute of Technology
Asu Büşra Temizer
Boğaziçi University
Gökçe Uludoğan
Boğaziçi University
Gözde Yazıcı
Bilkent University
Cansu Damla Yılmaz
Boğaziçi University
Nilay YönetYıldız Technical University
Klea Zambaku
Bilkent University
Melisa Ece Zeylan
Koç University


Program Committee



Derek AguiarUniversity of Connecticut
Tatsuya AkutsuKyoto University
Can AlkanBilkent University
Srinivas AluruGeorgia Institute of Technology
Mukul S. BansalUniversity of Connecticut
Gürkan BebekCase Western Reserve University
Niko BeerenwinkelETH Zurich
Bonnie BergerMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Valentina BoevaETH Zurich
Karsten BorgwardtETH Zurich
Christina BoucherUniversity of Florida
Dongbo BuChinese Academy of Sciences
Sebastian BöckerFriedrich Schiller University Jena
Mark ChaissonUniversity of Southern California
Cedric ChauveSimon Fraser University
Brian ChenLehigh University
A. Ercüment ÇiçekBilkent University
Lenore CowenTufts University
Tunca DoğanHacettepe University
Mohammed El-KebirUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Nadia El-MabroukUniversity of Montreal
Travis GagieDiego Portales University
Xin GaoKing Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Anthony GitterUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Boying GongUniversity of California, Berkeley
Çiğdem Gündüz DemirKoç University
Gamze GürsoyColumbia University
Attila GürsoyKoç University
Faraz HachUniversity of British Columbia
Iman HajirasoulihaCornell University
Bjarni HalldorssondeCODE genetics and Reykjavik University
Arif HarmancıUniversity of Texas Health Sciences Center
Farhad HormozdiariGoogle Health
Fereydoun HormozdiariUniversity of California, Davis
Lei HuangMicrosoft
Tao JiangUniversity of California, Riverside
Emre KarakoçWellcome Sanger Institute
Sündüz KeleşUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Aly KhanToyota Technological Institute at Chicago
Daisuke KiharaPurdue University
Gunnar W. KlauHeinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Tal KoremColumbia University
Mehmet KoyutürkCase Western Reserve University
Gregory KucherovCNRS/LIGM
Jens LagergrenSBC and CSC, KTH
Benjamin LangmeadJohns Hopkins University
Heewook LeeArizona State University
Jingyi Jessica LiUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Stefano LonardiUC Riverside
Wenxiu MaUniversity of California Riverside
Jian MaCarnegie Mellon University
Salem MalikicNational Cancer Institute
Guillaume MarçaisCarnegie Mellon University
Paul MedvedevThe Pennsylvania State University
Onur MutluETH Zurich & Carnegie Mellon University
Veli MäkinenUniversity of Helsinki
William Stafford NobleUniversity of Washington
Ibrahim NumanagicUniversity of Victoria
Layla OesperCarleton College
Yaron OrensteinBar-Ilan University
Robert PatroUniversity of Maryland
Itsik Pe'ErColumbia University
Qian PengThe Scripps Research Institute
Nadia PisantiUniversity of Pisa
Cinzia PizziUniversity of Padova
Teresa PrzytyckaNational Center of Biotechnology Information
Ben RaphaelPrinceton University
Knut ReinertFU Berlin
Mina RhoHanyang University
Sushmita RoyUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Cenk SahinalpNational Cancer Institute
Sriram SankararamanUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Michael SchatzCold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Alexander SchoenhuthBielefeld University
Russell SchwartzCarnegie Mellon University
Mingfu ShaoCarnegie Mellon University
Roded SharanTel Aviv University
Ritambhara SinghBrown University
Rohit SinghMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Sagi SnirUniversity of Haifa
Jens StoyeBielefeld University
Fengzhu SunUniversity of Southern California
Wing-Kin SungNational University of Singapore
Krister SwensonCNRS, Université de Montpellier
Haixu TangIndiana University Bloomington
Öznur TaştanSabancı University
Jonathan TerhorstUniversity of Michigan
Tamir TullerTel Aviv University
Fabio VandinUniversity of Padova
Martin VingronMax Planck Institut fuer molekulare Genetik
Jerome WaldispuhlMcGill University
Wei WangUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Sheng WangUniversity of Washington
Yijie WangIndiana University
Sebastian WillEcole Polytechnique
Yu-Wei WuTaipei Medical University
Min XuCarnegie Mellon University
Berrin YanikogluSabancı University
Yuzhen YeIndiana University Bloomington
Yun William YuUniversity of Toronto
Jianyang ZengTsinghua University
Shaojie ZhangUniversity of Central Florida
Louxin ZhangNational University of Singapore
Chi ZhangIndiana University, School of Medicine
Xuhong ZhangIndiana University
Jie ZhengShanghaiTech University
Degui ZhiUniversity of Texas Health Science Center at Houston