ECCB 2018 Organization

CONFERENCE CHAIR

Artemis G. Hatzigeorgiou – University of Thessaly & Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Greece

CONFERENCE CO-CHAIR

Pantelis Bagos – University of Thessaly, Greece

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Pantelis Bagos– University of Thessaly, Greece

Takis Benos – University of Pittsburgh, USA

Artemis G. Hatzigeorgiou – University of Thessaly & Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Greece

Vassiliki Iconomidou – National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Ioannis Kavakiotis – University of Thessaly & Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Greece

Elias Manolakos – National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Ioannis Michalopoulos – Biomedical Research Foundation Academy of Athens, Greece

Ioannis Tsamardinos – University of Crete, Greece

Ioannis Vlahavas – Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

STEERING COMMITTEE

Ron Appel – Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland

Søren Brunak – Technical University of Denmark and University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Marie-Dominique Devignes – CNRS, University of Lorraine, Nancy, France

Jaap Heringa – Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Oliver Kohlbacher – University of Tübingen, Germany

Michal Linial – The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Rodrigo Lopez – European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Yves Moreau – University of Leuven, Belgium

Marie-France Sagot – Inria Grenoble Rhône-Alpes, Lyon, France

Torsten Schwede – SIB and Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland

Janet Thornton, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Alfonso Valencia – Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies

Jaak Vilo – University of Tartu, Estonia

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

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Takis Benos – University of Pittsburgh, USA (Chair)

Yves Moreau – KU Leuven, Belgium (Chair Highlights)

Christoforos Nikolaou – University of Crete, Greece (Chair Proceedings)

Costas Bouyioukos – Université Denis Diderot, Paris VII, France (Chair Tutorials)

Georgios A. Pavlopoulos – BSRC “Alexander Fleming”, Greece (Chair Workshops)

Evangelia Petsalaki – The European Bioinformatics Institute, UK (Chair Posters)

Niklas Blomberg, ELIXIR Europe, UK (Chair ELIXIR Applications)

Aristotelis Chatziioanou – National Hellenic Research Foundation, Greece (Chair Applications)

Artemis G. Hatzigeorgiou – University of Thessaly & Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Greece (Conference chair)

Pantelis Bagos – University of Thessaly, Greece (Conference co-chair)

PROCEEDINGS AND TRACK COMMITTEES

Proceedings Theme Committees

Theme: Data

Michael Oliver Krauthammer – Yale University, USA (Chair)

Pantelis Bagos – University of Thessaly, Greece

Takis Benos – University of Pittsburgh, USA

Georgios V. Gkoutos – Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, UK

Theme: Genes

Roderic Guigo – Center for Genomic Regulation, Spain (Chair)

Philipp Bucher – EPFL and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland

Uwe Ohler – Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Germany

Pavlos Pavlidis – Foundation of Research and Technology, Greece

Theme: Genome

Martin Vingron – Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany (Chair)

Julien Gagneur – Technical University of Munich, Germany

Arndt von Haeseler – Vienna Center for Integrative Bioinformatics, Austria

Christoforos Nikolaou – University of Crete, Greece

Knut Reinert – Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany

Theme: Proteins and Structural Biology

Ivet Bahar – University of Pittsburgh, USA (Chair)

Nicholas Moschonas – University of Patras, Greece

Baldo Oliva – University Pompeu Fabra, Spain

Rebecca Wade – University Heidelberg University, Germany

Theme: Systems

Alfonso Valencia – Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies, Spain (Chair)

Yannis Androulakis – Rutgers University, USA

Maria Klapa – Foundation of Research and Technology of Patras, Greece

Track Committees

Applications Track

Aristotelis Chatziioannou – National Hellenic Research Foundation, Greece (Chair)

Ilias Maglogiannis – University of Piraeus, Greece

ELIXIR Applications Track

Niklas Blomberg – ELIXIR Europe, UK (Chair)

Premysl Velek – ELIXIR, Europe, UK

Martin Reczko – Biomedical Sciences Research Center Alexander Fleming, Greece

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE REVIEWERS

Theme: Data

Animesh Acharjee

Ahmed Allam

Grigoris Amoutzias

Sophia Ananiadou

Michael Bada

Christopher Baker

Alina Bazarova

Olivier Bodenreider

Costas Bouyioukos

Kristina Buschur

Aristotelis Chatziioannou

Wei Chen

Chakra Chennubhotla

Maria Chikina

Fabrizio Costa

Niki Dimou

René Dreos

Evangelos Evangelou

Perry Evans

Henning Hermjakob

Robert Hoehndorf

Dimitris Iakovidis

Senay Kafkas

Andreas Karwath

Ioannis Kavakiotis

David Koes

Panagiota Kontou

Dennis Kostka

Tobias Kuhn

Maxat Kulmanov

Timothy Lezon

Kevin Lopez

Shuangge Ma

Ilias Maglogiannis

Dimitrios Manatakis

Jim McCusker

Robert A. Mcdougal

Helen Parkinson

Georgios Pavlopoulos

Athanasia Pavlopoulou

Vassilis Plagianakos

Natapol Pornputtapong

Vineet Raghu

Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann

Fabio Rinaldi

Paul Schofield

Marcel Schulz

Luke Slater

Andrea Splendiani

Margarita C. Theodoropoulou

Georgios Tsaousis

George C. Tseng

Konstantinos Tsirigos

Sophia Tsoka

Xuefeng Wang

Jennifer Williams

John Williams

Theme: Genes

Sarah Aibar

Altuna Akalin

Nikolaos Alachiotis

Patrick Aloy

Bill Andreopoulous

Estel Aparicio

Ziga Avsec

Rolf Backofen

Alex Bateman

Philipp Boss

Alexandros Bousios

Rita Casadio

Spyridon Chavlis

Constance Ciaudo

Kevin Coombes

Dick De Ridder

Slavica Dimitrieva

Sarah Djebali

René Dreos

Philipp Drewe

Alexandre Ferreira Ramos

Anastasia Filia

Tomas Flouri

Sylvain Foissac

Diego Garrido

Raluca Gordan

Stefan Haas

Laleh Haghverdi

Kay Hofmann

Panagiotis Ioannidis

Mudassar Iqbal

Zerrin Isik

Hosna Jabbari

Rory Johnson

Fabian J. Theis

Zeynep Kalender Atak

Nestoras Karathanasis

Cecilia Klein

Anshul Kundaje

Vincenzo Lagani

Harri Lähdesmäki

Kleanthi Lakiotaki

Tereza Manousaki

Santiago Marco-Sola

Florian Markowetz

Annalisa Marsico

Mickael Mendez

Hongyu Miao

Anne Morgat

Burkhard Morgenstern

Jonas Mueller

Manuel Munoz

Manuel Muñoz Aguirre

Cedric Notredame

Ramil Nurtdinov

Anastasis Oulas

Despoina Pavlidi

Chris Penfold

Nicholas Phillips

Solon Pissis

Teresa Przytycka

Yanjun Qi

Daniel Quang

Marcel Reinders

Łukasz Roguski

Michael Sammeth

Roland Schwarz

Hong-Bin Shen

Rainer Spang

Terry Speed

Simone Tiberi

Pantelis Topalis

Igor Ulitsky

Sebastian Ullrich

Eivind Valen

Erik van Nimwegen

Natalia Vilor-Tejedor

Bartek Wilczynski

Valentin Wucher

Zohar Yakhini

Matthias Zytnicki

Theme: Genome

Mohamed Abouelhoda

Can Alkan

Israa Al-Qassem

Jasmijn Baaijens

Rolf Backofen

Marleen Balvert

Endre Barta

Philipp Benner

Sebastian Böcker

Costas Bouyioukos

Stefan Budach

Michael Charleston

Spyridon Chavlis

Rayan Chikhi

Panagiotis Chouvardas

Stephen Crotty

Antoine Danchin

Thomas Derrien

Alexandros Dimopoulos

Sarah Djebali

Huan Do

Ionas Erb

Markus Fleischauer

Sylvain Foissac

Andrew Francis

Caroline C. Friedel

Martin Frith

Giuseppe Gallone

Erik Garrison

George Georgakilas

George Giannakopoulos

Pay Gieselmann

Alexander Goesmann

Stefan Haas

Bernhard Haubold

Matthias Heinig

David Heller

Ralf Herwig

Steve Hoffmann

Barbara Holland

Liisa Holm

Manuel Holtgrewe

Wolfgang Huber

Daniel Huson

Panagiotis Ioannidis

Katharina Jahn

Lars Jermiin

Markus Johann Bauer

Rorry Johnson

Prabhav Kalaghatgi

Kiavash Kianfar

Jongkyu Kim

Carl Kingsford

Steffen Klaere

Christophe Klopp

Helene Kretzmer

Anastasia Krithara

Gregory Kucherov

Ercan Kuruoglu

Julien Lagarde

Kleanthi Lakiotaki

Rob Lanfear

Vincenzo Lagani

Ben Langmead

Vinh Le

Matthias Lienhard

Antoine Limasset

Gen Lin

Simone Linz

Florian Markowetz

Annalisa Marsico

Stylianos Mavropoulos-Papoudas

Paul Medvedev

Mohammadhossein Moeinzadeh

Pablo Monteagudo

Burkhard Morgenstern

Bertram Müller-Myhsok

Frank Noe

Vassilis Ntassis

Anastasis Oulas

Ioannis Pandis

Nikolaos Panoussis

Giorgio Papadopoulos

Anthony Papenfuss

Maria Paraskevopoulou

Benedict Paten

Georgios Pavlopoulos

Pierre Peterlongo

Nico Pfeifer

Solon Pissis

Christopher Pockrandt

Dimitris Polychronopoulos

Bui Quang Minh

René Rahn

Thomas Rattei

Magnus Rattray

Tobias Rausch

Eric Rivals

Guillaume Rizk

Peter Robinson

Michael Sammeth

Heiko Schmidt

Alexander Schönhuth

Robert Schöpflin

Michael Schroeder

Roman Schulte-Sasse

Marcel Schulz

Alexander Sczyrba

Karel Sedlar

Fritz Sedlazeck

Johannes Soeding

Oliver Stegle

Edgar Steiger

Philip Stevens

Jens Stoye

Wing-Kin Sung

Krister Swenson

Haixu Tang

Morgane Thomas-Chollier

Pantelis Topalis

Aristotelis Tsirigos

Maria Tsochatzidou

Niko Välimäki

Alena van Bömmel

Tanya Vavouri

Emanuel Weitschek

Sebastian Will

Gunnar W. Klau

Jun Yang

Kathi Zarnack

Michael Ziller

Ralf Zimmer

Matthias Zytnicki

Theme: Proteins and Structural Biology

Tero Aittokallio

Joakim Anden

Xavier Barril

Asa Ben-Hur

Jaume Bonet

Alexandre Borrel

Anne-Claude Camproux

Murat Can Cobanoglu

Rita Casadio

Christos Chasapis

Jianlin Cheng

Chakra Chennubhotla

Evangelia Chrysina

Jiri Damborsky

Thomas Dandekar

Xavier Daura

Xavier de La Cruz

Stefan Doerr

Bruce Donald

Jesse Eickholt

Narcis Fernandez-Fuentes

Juan Fernandez-Recio

Oriol Fornes

Dmitrij Frishman

Madhavi Ganapathiraju

Javier Garcia-Garcia

Anthony Gitter

Nicholas M. Glykos

F. Xavier Gomis-Rüth

Emre Guney

Attila Gursoy

Sridhar Hannenhalli

Des Higgins

Daniel Hoffmann

Liisa Holm

Vassiliki Iconomidou

Hosna Jabbari

Xavier Jalencas

David Jones

David Juan

Lars Juhl Jensen

Cihan Kaya

Daisuke Kihara

Andrzej Kloczkowski

Debra Knisley

David Koes

Rosalba Lepore

Josep Ll Gelpi

Anália Lourenço

Katja Luck

Lars Malmström

Alfonso E. Márquez-Chamorro

Rainer Merkl

Jordi Mestres

Cristian Micheletti

Markus Nebel

Danny Nedialkova

Sandra Orchard

Banu Ozkan

Florencio Pazos

Kyriacos Petratos

Joan Planas-Iglesias

Daniel Poglayen

Luca Ponzoni

Andreas Prlic

David Ritchie

Hannes Röst

Ana Scott

Amit Singer

Alejandro Speck

Defne Surujon

Peter Tieleman

Dror Tobi

Ilya Vakser

Vera van Noort

Olga Vitek

Martin Weigt

Haim J. Wolfson

Theme: Systems

Alison Acevedo

Athanasios Alexiou

Panagiotis Alexiou

Saul Ares

Antonios Armaou

Seul-A Bae

Anaïs Baudot

Silvio Bicciato

Christos Chasapis

Davide Cirillo

Fabricio Da Silva

Hidde De Jong

Diego di Bernardo

Alexandros Dimopoulos

Joaquin Dopazo

Miquel Duran-Frigola

Bhaskar Dutta

Jim Faeder

Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern

Holger Fröhlich

Tomas Gedeon

Alexandros Georgakilas

Antonis Giannakakis

Enrico Glaab

Dagmar Iber

Dimitra Karagkouni

Antonis Koussounadis

Nikolaos Perdikopanis

Georgios Skoufos

Martin Kuiper

Christoniki Maga-Nteve

Christos Makris

Manolis Maragkakis

Pantelis Mavroudis

Tom Michoel

Natasa Miskov-Zivanov

George Papanastasiou

Georgios Papoutsoglou

Ioannis Papantoniou

Maria Paraskevopoulou

Florencio Pazos

Eleftherios Pilalis

Miguel Ponce de Leon

Matthew Putnins

Peng Qiu

Rohit Rao

Megerle Scherholz

Ron Shamir

Roded Sharan

Damian Smedley

Spyros Tastsoglou

Héctor Tejero

Aristeidis Telonis

Denis Thieffry

Fabio Vandin

Miguel Vazquez

Spyridon Vernardis

Spyros Vernardis

Ioannis Vlachos

Liviu Vladutu

Aristidis Vrahatis

Lodewyk F.A. Wessels

Eric Yang

Chen Zhongqiang

Dimitrios Zisis

Chen Zhongqiang

Applications

Aggelos Avramopoulos

Ilona Binenbaum

Evangelia Chrysina

Giorgos Fotakis

Georgia Kontogianni

Theodoros Koutsandreas

Efthymios Ladoukakis

Irene Liampa

Marianthi Logotheti

Panagiotis Moulos

Konstantinos Moutselos

Olga Papadodima

Eleftherios Pilalis

Konstantinos Potamitis

Efstathios-Iason Vlachavas

Ioannis Vlachos

Konstantinos Voutetakis

Panagiotis Zoumpoulakis