General chairs

• Jessie Kennedy, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
• Jos Roerdink, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Paper chairs

• Kay Nieselt, University of Tübingen, Germany
• G. Elisabeta Marai, University of Pittsburg, USA

Poster chairs

• Robert Kincaid, Agilent Laboratories, USA
• Cydney Nielsen, British Columbia Cancer Agency Genome Sciences Centre, Canada

Publication chairs

• Miriah Meyer, University of Utah, USA
• Jan Aerts, Leuven University, Belgium

Primer/tutorial chairs

Challenges chairs

• Seán O'Donoghue, Garvan Institute/CSIRO, Australia
• Michel Westenberg, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Data contest chairs

• Raghu Machiraju, The Ohio State University, USA
• William Ray, The Ohio State University, USA
• Christopher Bartlett, The Ohio State University, USA

Redesign contest chairs

• Martin Krzywinski, Vancouver, Canada
• Bang Wong, Broad Institute, USA

Industry and fundraising chairs

• Kun Huang, The Ohio State University, USA
• Daniel Weiskopf, University of Stuttgart, Germany

Website chairs

• Alexander Lex, Harvard University, USA
• Marc Streit, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

Publicity chairs

• Hendrik Strobelt, New York University Polytechnic Institute, USA

Steering committee

• Larry Hunter, University of Colorado, USA
• Torsten Möller, Simon Fraser University, Canada
• Tamara Munzner, University of British Columbia, Canada
• Amitabh Varshney, University of Maryland, USA
• Nils Gehlenborg, Harvard Medical School, USA
• Raghu Machiraju, The Ohio State University, USA
• Angela DePace, Harvard Medical School, USA

Program committee

Aerts, Jan, KU Leuven, Belgium
Bartlett, Chris, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, USA
Bertini, Enrico, NYU, USA
Carter, Greg, Jackson Lab, USA
Chen, Jian, University of Maryland BC, USA
Goerg, Carsten, University of Colorado, USA
Graber, Joel, Jackson Lab, USA
Hege, Hans-Christian, Zuse-Institute Berlin, Germany
Jianu, Radu, Florida International University, USA
Joshi, Alark, Boise State, USA
Jurisica, Igor, University of Toronto, Canada
Kennedy, Jessie, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
Kincaid, Robert, Agilent, USA
Kingsford, Carl, University of Maryland, USA
Lenhof, Hans-Peter, University of Saarbrücken, Germany
Marai, Georgeta-Elisabeta, University of Pittsburg, USA
Melancon, Guy, INRIA Bordeaux, France
Merhof, Dorit, University of Konstanz, Germany
Meyer, Miriah, Harvard University, USA
Meyer, Folker, Argonne National Laboratories, USA
Morris, Scooter, UCSF, USA
Möller, Torsten, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Mueller, Klaus, Stony Brook University, USA
Munzner, Tamara, University of British Columbia, Canada
Myers, Chad, University of Minnesota, USA
Nattkemper, Tim, University of Bielefeld, Germany
Nieselt, Kay, University of Tübingen, Germany
Preim, Bernhard, University of Magdeburg, Germany
Ray, William, The Ohio State University, USA
Roerdink, Jos, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Ropinski, Timo, Linkoping University, Sweden
Schneider, Reinhard, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
Schultz, Thomas, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany
Sharma, Cynthia, University of Würzburg, Germany
Streit, Marc, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Strobelt, Hendrik, University of Konstanz, Germany
van Liere, Robert, CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Vilanova, Anna, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Weber, Gunther, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA
Westenberg, Michel, Technical University Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Wiebel, Alexander, Zuse-Institute Berlin, Germany
Yoo, Terry, NIH, USA
Zhang, Song, University of Mississippi, USA