Steering Committee

Co-chairs:

• Aidong Zhang, State University of New York at Buffalo
• May D. Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University



Committee Members:

• Yi Pan, Georgia State University
• Ying Xu, University of Georgia
• Mark Borodovsky, Georgia Institute of Technology

General Chairs

• Srinivas Aluru, Georgia Institute of Technology
• May Dongmei Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University

Program Chairs

• Christopher C. Yang, Drexel University
• T. M. Murali, Virginia Tech

Demo and Exhibit Chair

• Dr. Robert (Bob) Cottingham, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

HealthIT Partnership Chair

• Sherry N. Farrugia, Georgia Institute of Technology & Children's Healthcare of Atlanta

Industry Track Co-Chairs

• Dr. Xin Deng, Microsoft Corporation
• Donghui Wu, Knowledgent Group Inc

NIH Funding and Training Program Chair

• Dr. Greg Gibson, School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology

Poster Chairs

• Yu-Ping Wang, Tulane University
• Dongxiao Zhu, Wayne State University

Proceedings Chairs

• Xinghua Mindy Shi, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
• Yang Shen, Texas A&M University

Publicity Chairs

• Ananth Kalyanaraman, Washington State University
• Pierangelo Veltri, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro

Registration Chair

• Preetam Ghosh, Virginia Commonwealth University

Student Activity Chair

• Marzieh Ayati, Case Western Reserve University

Student Travel Award Chairs

• Prof. Zhaohui (Steve) Qin, Emory University
• Prof. May D. Wang, Georgia Tech and Emory University
• Student Co-Chair: Po-Yen (Leo) Wu, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tutorial Chair

• Prof. Tamer Kahveci, University of Florida

Women in Bioinformatics Panel Chair

• Wei Wang, University of California Los Angeles

Workshop Chair

• Leonard McMillan, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Web Masters

• Li Tong, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Hang Wu, Georgia Institute of Technology