General chairs

• Jessie Kennedy, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
• Raghu Machiraju, The Ohio State University, USA
• Nils Gehlenborg, Harvard Medical School, USA

Paper chairs

• Jos Roerdink, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
• Matt Hibbs, The Jackson Laboratory, USA

Poster chairs

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

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
• Bernhard Preim, University of Magdeburg, Germany

Contest chairs

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

Industry and fundraising chairs

• Kun Huang, The Ohio State University, USA
• G. Elisabeta Marai, University of Pittsburg, USA

Website and publicity chairs

• Alexander Lex, Graz University of Technology, Austria
• Marc Streit, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

Steering committee

• Larry Hunter, University of Colorado, USA
• Torsten Moeller, Simon Fraser University, Canada
• Tamara Munzner, University of British Columbia, Canada
• Amitabh Varshney, University of Maryland, USA
• David Marshall, James Hutton Institute, UK

Program committee

The BioVis 2012 international program committee will include both visualization and bioinformatics scientists from a wide range of domains.

• Aerts, Jan, KU Leuven, Belgium
• Anshus, Otto, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway
• Bejerano, Gill, Stanford, USA
• Bertini, Enrico, University of Konstanz, Germany
• Blake, Judith, The Jackson Laboratory, USA
• Botha, Charl, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
• Bruckner, Stefan, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
• Carter, Greg, The Jackson Laboratory, USA
• Dubchak, Inna, Lawrence Berkley Laboratory, USA
• Duke, David, University of Leeds, UK
• Dunham, Maitreya, University of Washington, USA
• Durand, Dannie, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Görg, Carsten, University of Colorado, USA
• Graber, Joel, The Jackson Laboratory, USA
• Gresham, David, New York University, USA
• Hege, Hans-Christian, Zuse-Institute Berlin, Germany
• Hibbs, Matthew, The Jackson Laboratory, USA
• Hunter, Larry, University of Colorado, USA
• Huson, Daniel, University of Tübingen, Germany
• Huttenhower, Curtis, Harvard School of Public Health, USA
• Johnson, Chris, University of Utah, USA
• Joshi, Alark, Boise State University, USA
• Jurisica, Igor, Ontario Cancer Institute, Canada
• Kennedy, Jessie, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
• Kingsford, Carl, University of Maryland, USA
• Lappe, Michael, Max Planck Berlin, Germany
• Linsen, Lars, Jacobs University, Germany
• Möller, Torsten, Simon Fraser University, Canada
• Müller, Heimo, Medical University of Graz, Austria
• Markowetz, Florian, University of Cambridge, USA
• Marshall, David, James Hutton Institute, UK
• Merhof, Dorit, University of Konstanz, Germany
• Meyer, Miriah, University of Utah, USA
• Morris, Scooter, UCSF, USA
• Myers, Chad, University of Minnesota, USA
• Nieselt, Kay, University of Tübingen, Germany
• Preim, Bernhard, University of Magdeburg, Germany
• Ray, William, The Ohio State University, USA
• Rockman, Matt, New York University, USA
• Roerdink, Jos, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
• Ropinski, Timo, Linköping University, Sweden
• Schneider, Reinhard, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
• Schreiber, Falk, IPK Gatersleben, Germany
• Singh, Mona, Princeton University, USA
• Streit, Marc, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
• Trutschl, Marjan, Louisiana State University, USA
• van Hijum, Sacha, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, The Netherlands
• van Liere, Robert, CWI Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Weber, Gunther, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA
• Westenberg, Michel, Technical University Eindhoven, The Netherlands
• Wiebel, Alexander, Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany
• Ynnerman, Anders, Norkoping University, Sweden