Confirmed Invited Speakers:
Jurg Bahler, University College London
Naama Barkai, Weizmann Institute
Ben Blencowe, University of Toronto
Thijn Brummelkamp, Netherlands Cancer Institute
David Botstein, Princeton University
Michael Boutros, DKFZ Heidelberg
George Church, Harvard Medical School
John Dick, University Health Network Toronto
Joe Ecker, The Salk Institute
Anne-Claude Gavin, EMBL Heidelberg
Tim Hughes, University of Toronto
Ben Lehner, EMBL-CRG Systems Biology Unit, Barcelona
Debora Marks, Harvard Medical School
Lucas Pelkmans, University of Zurich
Norbert Perrimon, Harvard Medical School
Robert Singer, Albert Einstein College of Medicine NY
Mike Snyder, Stanford University
Eran Segal, Weizmann Institute
Marc Vidal, Dana Farber Cancer Institute Boston
Confirmed Parallel Session Leaders:
Brenda Andrews, University of Toronto
Phil Benfey, Duke University
Anders Blomberg, University of Gothenburg
Eric Brown, McMaster University
Amy Caudy, University of Toronto
Barak Cohen, Washington University
Roland Eils, DKFZ, Heidelberg
Alex Ensminger, University of Toronto
Anne-Claude Gingras, SLRI Toronto
Dan Gottschling, FHCRC Seattle
David Gresham, NYU
Kris Gunsalus, NYU
Trey Ideker, UCSD
Edda Klip, Humboldt University Berlin
Michael Knop, University of Heidelberg Germany
Tanja Kortemme, UCSF
Tony Kossiakoff, University of Chicago
Karl Kucher, University of Vienna
Steve Michnick, Universite de Montreal
Sven Nelander, Uppsala University, Sweden
Jason Moffat, University of Toronto
Stephen Montgomery, Stanford University
Chad Myers, University of Minnesota
Quaid Morris, University of Toronto
Jens Nielsen, Chalmers University, Sweden
Sven Nelander, Uppsala University, Sweden
Thomas Nystrom, University of Gothenburg
Yoshikazu Ohya, University of Tokyo
Steve Oliver, University of Cambridge, UK
Hiroyuki Osada, Riken Advanced Science Institute, Japan
Balacz Papp, Biological Research Center Hungary
Nick Provart, University of Toronto
Katsuhiko Shirahige, University of Tokyo
Sachdev Sidhu, University of Toronto
Igor Stagljar, University of Toronto
Per Sunnerhagen, University of Gothenburg
Peter Swain, University of Edinburgh
Jussi Taipale, Karolinska Institutet
Olga Troyanskaya, Princeton University
Mike Tyers, IRIC Montreal
Jim Wells, UCSF
Minoru Yoshida, RIKEN Institute, Japan
Guest speakers:
Carl Zimmer: Science writer. You can find Carl in the Science Times section of the New York Times, along with magazines such as National Geographic, Discover, and Scientific American. Carl recently published Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed.
Drew Berry: Drew is a biomedical animator at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia. His scientifically accurate and aesthetically rich visualizations are elucidating cellular and molecular processes for a wide range of audiences and have received international recognition including an Emmy (2005) and a BAFTA Award (2004).