Conference Committee
A. Steering Committee
Rofina Yasmin Othman (MOSTI)
Under Secretary,
Division of Biotechnology (BIOTEK)
Sheila Nathan (Co‐Chair), MOSTI
Director, Centre for Comparative Genomics & Genetics @ MGI
Suhaimi Napis (Co-Chair)
Director, InfoComm Development Centre (iDEC), Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)
Mohd Basyaruddin Bin Abdul Rahman (MOSTI)
Director, Centre for Structural and Synthetic Biology @ MGI
Shoba Ranganathan
University of Macquarie, Sydney, Australia
Christian Schönbach
Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Burkhard Rost
Technical University Munich, Germany
Reinhard Schneider
Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, Luxembourg
Scott Markel
Accelerys, USA
Janet Kelso
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany
Paul Horton
AIST, Computional Biology Research Center, Japan.
BJ Morrison McKay
Executive Officer at ISCB
B. General Chairs and Local Organizing Committee
Programme Committee
(All names are listed in alphabetical order)
Publishing Committee (PUBC):
Web Design
Rofina Yasmin Othman (MOSTI)
Under Secretary,
Division of Biotechnology (BIOTEK)
Sheila Nathan (Co‐Chair), MOSTI
Director, Centre for Comparative Genomics & Genetics @ MGI
Suhaimi Napis (Co-Chair)
Director, InfoComm Development Centre (iDEC), Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)
Mohd Basyaruddin Bin Abdul Rahman (MOSTI)
Director, Centre for Structural and Synthetic Biology @ MGI
Shoba Ranganathan
University of Macquarie, Sydney, Australia
Christian Schönbach
Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Burkhard Rost
Technical University Munich, Germany
Reinhard Schneider
Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, Luxembourg
Scott Markel
Accelerys, USA
Janet Kelso
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany
Paul Horton
AIST, Computional Biology Research Center, Japan.
BJ Morrison McKay
Executive Officer at ISCB
B. General Chairs and Local Organizing Committee
- Sheila Nathan (Co‐Chair), MOSTI
- Amir Feisal Merican bin Aljunid Merican (Co‐Chair), MOSTI
- Kalaivani Nadarajah (Secretariat)
- Suhaimi Napis Director, InfoComm Development Centre (iDEC), Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)
- Habibah A Wahab, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)
- Mustafar Kamal Hamzah, Vice‐Chair of the IEEE Malaysia PELS/IES/IAS Joint Chapter, UiTM
- Zilfalil Alwi, Consultant Paediatrician & Medical Geneticist, School of Medical Sciences, (USM)
- Firdaus M Raih, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)
- Effirul Ikhwan Ramlan, University of Malaya (UM)
- Mohd Saberi Mohamad, University Teknologi Malaysia (UTM)
- Ng Chong Han Multimedia, University of Malaysia (MMU)
- Sharifah Mumtazah Syed Ahmed, Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN)
- Abdul Rahman Ahmad Dahlan, International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM)
- Vijay Kumar, University Malaysia Sabah (UMS)
- Mohd Tajuddin Abdullah, University Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS)
- Sheryn Sum, MDeC
- Kamal Hisham, MYREN Technical Team, MDeC
Programme Committee
(All names are listed in alphabetical order)
- Shandar Ahmad, National Institute of Biomedical Innovation, Japan
- Tatsuya Akutsu, Kyoto University, Japan
- Vladimir Bajic, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
- Christopher J.O. Baker, University of New Brunswick, Canada
- Daniel Berrar, University of Ulster, UK
- Vladimir Brusic, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard University, Boston, USA
- Filippo Castiglione, (Chair BCII), National Research Council, Italy
- Alan Christoffels, South African National Bioinformatics Institute, South
Africa - Anne S. De Groot, Institute of Immunology and Informatics, University of Rhode Island, and EpiVax, Inc., USA
- Frank Eisenhaber, Bioinformatics Institute, A*STAR, Singapore
- Andrew French, University of Nottingham, UK
- Ge Gao, Center for Bioinformatics, Peking University, P.R. China
- Susumu Goto, Kyoto University, Japan
- M. Michael Gromiha, Computational Biology Research Center, AIST, Japan
- Marsia Gustiananda, Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology, Indonesia
- Yongqun "Oliver" He, University of Michigan Medical School, USA
- Chia-Lang Hsu, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan
- Wen-Lian Hsu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
- Chun-Hsi Huang, University of Connecticut, USA
- Ming-Jing Hwang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
- M Asif Khan, Johns Hopkins University, USA
- Javed Khan, Macquarie University, Australia
- Akira Kinjo, Osaka University, Japan
- Kengo Kinoshita, Tohoku University, Japan
- Akihiko Konagaya, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
- Gaurav Kumar, Macquarie University, Australia
- Hiroyuki Kurata, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
- Igor V. Kurochkin, Bioinformatics Institute, A*STAR, Singapore
- Vladimir Kuznetsov, Bioinformatics Institute, A*STAR, Singapore
- Chee Keong Kwoh, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Chih Lee, University of Connecticut, USA
- Ole Lund, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
- Hiroshi Mamitsuka, Kyoto University, Japan
- Bill M Martin, EpiVax, Inc., USA
- Hideo Matsuda, Osaka University, Japan
- Amir Feisal Merican, Malaysia Genome Institute, Malaysia
- Lenny Moise, EpiVax, Inc., USA
- Santo Motta, University of Catania, Italy
- Kenta Nakai, University of Tokyo, Japan
- Haruki Nakamura, Osaka University, Japan
- Sheila Nathan, Malaysia Genome Institute, Malaysia
- See-Kiong Ng, Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore
- Takenao Ohkawa, Kobe University, Japan
- Ashwini Patil, University of Tokyo, Japan
- Nikolai Petrovsky, Flinders Medical Centre, Australia
- Shoba Ranganathan (PC Co-Chair), Macquarie University, Australia
- Meena Sakharkar, University of Tsukuba, Japan
- Daniele Santoni, Sapienza University, Italy
- Christian Schönbach (PC Co-Chair), Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
- Shahir Shamsir. Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia.
- Md Tabrez Anwar Shamim, Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, India
- Tetsuo Shibuya, University of Tokyo, Japan
- Kazuyuki Shimizu, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
- Worachart Sirawaraporn, Mahidol University, Thailand
- Daron M Standley, Osaka University, Japan
- Durai Sundar, Indian Institute of Technology Dehli, India
- Yoshihiro Taguchi, Chuo University, Japan
- Takao Takai-Igarashi, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan
- Yoichi Takenaka, Osaka University, Japan
- Tin Wee Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Todd Taylor, RIKEN Quantitative Biology Center, Japan
- Paolo Tieri, Unviversity of Bologna, Italy
- Joo Chuan Tong, Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore
- Chandra Verma, Bioinformatics Institute, A*STAR, Singapore
- Hiroshi Wako, Waseda University, Japan
- Limsoon Wong, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Masayuki Yamamura, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
- Ueng-Chang Yang, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan
- Kei Yura, Ochanomizu University, Japan
- Chao Xie, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Guanglan Zhang, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard University, USA
- Firdaus M Raih, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Malaysia
- Sissades Tongsima, BIOTEC, Thailand
Publishing Committee (PUBC):
- Shoba Ranganathan (BioMed Central Coordinator), Macquarie University, Australia
- Christian Schönbach, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan (Deputy Editor, Immunome Research)
- Nikolai Petrovsky (Editor-in-Chief, Immunome Research)
- Tin Wee Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore (Bioinformation)
- Amir Feisal Merican bin Aljunid Merican, (JICB)
Web Design
- Shahir Shamsir and the Bioinformatics Research Group (BIRG) UTM