Committee
General Chairs
- Nils Gehlenborg, Harvard University, USA
- Raghu Machiraju, The Ohio State University, USA
- Torsten Möller, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Paper Chairs
- Jessie Kennedy, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
- Jos Roerdink, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Abstract Chairs
- Miriah Meyer, University of Utah, USA
- Cydney Nielsen, British Columbia Genome Sciences Center, Canada
Invited Sessions Chairs
- Matt Hibbs, The Jackson Laboratory, USA
- Seán O'Donoghue, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Germany
- Bang Wong, Broad Institute, USA
Tutorial and Contest Chairs
- Lars Linsen, Jacobs University, Germany
- William Ray, The Ohio State University, USA
Exhibit Chairs and Industry Liaisons
- Michael McGuffin, École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada
- Robert Kincaid, Agilent Laboratories, USA
Website and Publicity Chairs
- Carsten Görg, University of Colorado Denver, USA
- Brian Staats, MITRE, USA
Program Committee
The BioVis 2011 international program committee includes both visualization and bioinformatics scientists from a wide range of domains.
- Jan Aerts, KU Leuven, Belgium
- Enrico Bertini, University of Konstanz, Germany
- Chengpeng Bi, Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City, USA
- John Boyle, Institute for Systems Biology, USA
- Michael Cantor, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, USA
- Urska Cvek, Louisiana State University Shreveport, USA
- Inna Dubchak, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, USA
- David Duke, University of Leeds, UK
- Tom Freeman, The Roslin Institute, UK
- Carsten Görg, University of Colorado, USA
- Georges Grinstein, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA
- Hans-Christian Hege, Zuse-Institute Berlin, Germany
- Daniel Huson, University of Tübingen, Germany
- Matt Hibbs, The Jackson Laboratory, USA
- Larry Hunter, University of Colorado, USA
- Chris Johnson, University of Utah, USA
- Steven Jones, British Columbia Genome Sciences Center, Canada
- Alark Joshi, Boise State, USA
- Igor Jurisica, University of Toronto, Canada
- Robert Kincaid, Agilent Laboratories, USA
- Jessie Kennedy, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
- Martin Krzywinski, British Columbia Genome Sciences Center, Canada
- Michael Lappe, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany
- Robert van Liere, CWI Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- David Marshall, Scottish Crop Research Institute, UK
- Guy Melançon, University of Bordeaux, France
- Jill Mesirov, Broad Institute, USA
- Miriah Meyer, University of Utah, USA
- Scooter Morris, UCSF, USA
- Heimo Müller, Medical University of Graz, Austria
- Cydney Nielsen, British Columbia Genome Sciences Center, Canada
- Kay Nieselt, University of Tübingen, Germany
- Chris North, Virginia Tech, USA
- Bernhard Preim, University of Magdeburg, Germany
- James Procter, University of Dundee, UK
- Sonja Prohaska, University of Leipzig, Germany
- William Ray, The Ohio State University, USA
- Jos Roerdink, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
- Reinhard Schneider, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
- Falk Schreiber, IPK Gatersleben, Germany
- Marjan Trutschl, Louisiana State University Shreveport, USA
- Fons Verbeek, University of Leiden, The Netherlands
- Ting Wang, Washington University, USA
- Gunther Weber, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA
- Michel Westenberg, Technical University Eindhoven, The Netherlands
- Ross Whitaker, University of Utah, USA
- Bang Wong, Broad Institute, USA
Acknowledgements
In addition to the committee members listed above the following individuals contributed to making BioVis a reality: Loretta Auvil, Gary Bader, Richard A Baldock, Christopher Bartlett, Rachael Brady, Alvis Brazma, Gautam Chaudhary, Steve Drucker, Daniel Evanko, Ananth Grama, Meghan Haley, Veronique Kiermer, Oliver Kohlbacher, Robert Kosara, David Laidlaw, Alexander Lex, Mark Logue, Jessica Lotito, Nicholas Luscombe, Tamara Munzner, Peter J Park, James T Robinson, Francis Rowland, Wolfgang Rumpf, Gerik Scheuermann, Monika Skutnik, Shana Spindler, James Stewart, Helga Thorvaldsdottir, Amitabh Varshney, Maria Velez, and Terry Yoo.