1. Genomics and Evolution
   • Dannie Durand, CMU
   • Yufeng Wu, University of Conneticut


2. Protein and RNA Structure, Protein Function, and Proteomics
   • Tatsuya Akutsu, Kyoto University
   • Pedja Radivojac, Indiana University Bloomington


3. Computational Systems Biology
   • Ying Xu, University of Georgia
   • Limsoon Wong, National University of Singapore


4. Processing and Application of Next Generation Sequencing Data
   • Hanlee Ji, Stanford Univ
   • Shibu Yooseph, J Craig Venter Institute


5. Medical Informatics and Translational Bioinformatics
   • May Wang, Georgia Tech
   • Tanya Berger-Wolf, Univ of Illinois at Chicago


6. Cross-Cutting Computational Methods and Bioinformatics Infrastructure
   • Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Ohio State University
   • Doheon Lee, KAIST


7. Immunoinformatics and Computational Immunology, Computational Epidemiology
   • Alberto Maria Segre, University of Iowa


8. Image Analysis, Knowledge Representation and Inference, Integration of Biomedical Data
   • Yoav Freund, University of San Diego
   • Chris Wiggins, Columbia University


9. Databases, Knowledgebases & Ontologies for Bioinformatics, Text Mining andNatural Language Processing in Biomedicine
   • Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, University Colorado School of Medicine
   • Hagit Shatkay, the University of Delaware