Important Dates

Paper submission:

  August 15, 2018
  August 1, 2018
  July 15, 2018

Notification of acceptance:

  September 10, 2018
  August 25, 2018
  August 15, 2018

Author registration:

  September 28, 2018
  September 21, 2018
  September 14, 2018
  September 1, 2018
  August 25, 2018

Camera-ready papers due on:

  September 28, 2018
  September 21, 2018
  September 5, 2018
  August 30, 2018

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Steering Committee

• Srinivas Aluru - Georgia Institute of Technology
• Reda A. Ammar - University of Connecticut
• Tao Jiang - University of California, Riverside
• Vipin Kumar - University of Minnesota
• Ming Li - University of Waterloo
• Sanguthevar Rajasekaran - University of Connecticut (Chair)
• John Reif - Duke University
• Sartaj Sahni - University of Florida

General Chairs

• Wuchun Feng - Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• Sanguthevar Rajasekaran - University of Connecticut

Program Committee Chairs

• Ananth Kalyanaraman - Washington State University
• Yoo-Ah Kim - National Institutes of Health

Workshop Chairs

• Ion Mandoiu - Univeristy of Connecticut
• Pavel Skums - Georgia State University
• Alex Zelikovsky - Georgia State University

Finance Chair

• Reda A. Ammar - University of Connecticut

Local Arrangement Chairs

• Martin Schiller - University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• Sharma V. Thankachan - University of Central Florida

Publicity Chairs

• Orlando Echevarria - University of Connecticut
• Bob Weiner - University of Connecticut

Publication Chair

• Zigeng Wang - University of Connecticut

Webmaster

• Zigeng Wang - University of Connecticut

Program Committee

• Lipi Rani Acharya - Dow AgroSciences
• Tatsuya Akutsu - Kyoto University, Japan
• Max Alekseyev - George Washington University
• Jaime Davila - Mayo Clinic
• Jorge Duitama - Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
• Richard Edwards - University of New South Wales, Australia
• Scott Emrich - University of Notre Dame
• Oliver Eulenstein - Iowa State University
• Liliana Florea - Johns Hopkins University
• Osamu Gotoh - Computational Biology Research Center (CBRC) and AIST
• Faraz Hach - Simon Fraser University, Canada
• Sumit Kumar Jha - University of Central Florida
• Danny Krizanc - Wesleyan University
• M. Oğuzhan Külekci - Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
• Manuel Lafond - Université de Montréal, Canada
• Ion Mandoiu - University of Connecticut
• Serghei Mangul - University of California, Los Angeles
• Maria Poptsova - Moscow State University, Russia
• Subrata Saha - IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
• Amarda Shehu - George Mason University
• Pavel Skums - Georgia State University
• Yanni Sun - Michigan State University
• Sing-Hoi Sze - Texas A&M University
• Sharma V. Thankachan - University of Central Florida
• Ugo Vaccaro - University of Salerno, Italy
• Balaji Venkatachalam - Google
• Li-San Wang - University of Pennsylvania
• Jianxin Wang - Central South University, China
• Fang Xiang Wu - University of Saskatchewan, Canada
• Alex Zelikovsky - Georgia State University
• Jin Zhang - Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
• Shaojie Zhang - University of Central Florida
• Wei Zhang - University of Central Florida
• Cuncong Zhong - University of Kansas