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    This event is organized by CBRC with financial support from the KAUST Office of Sponsored Research

Keynote Speakers

Fowzan Alkuraya

Professor of Human Genetics at Alfaisal University and Senior Consultant and Principal Clinical Scientist at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center

Panos Deloukas

Chair of Cardiovascular Genomics, Director of the Centre for Genomic Health and Dean for Life Sciences at Queen Mary University of London

Janet Kelso

Head of the Bioinformatics research group leader at the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Sudhir Kumar

Laura H. Carnell Professor and the Director of the Institute for Genomics and Evolutionary Medicine at Temple University

Shozo Yokoyama

Shozo Yokoyama moved to Emory’s Department of Biology in 2003 as an endowed chair, Asa G. Candler Professor of Biology

Xin Gao

Associate professor of computer science in the Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering Division at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia.

Plenary Speakers

Sandro J. de Souza

Professor of Bioinformatics at the Bioinformatics Multidisciplinary Environment (BioME) at UFRN in Natal

Vsevolod Makeev

Head of the department of Computational Systems Biology in Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Moscow, Russia

Xavier Morelli

Director of Research’ from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, France), group leader at the Cancer Research Center of Marseille (CRCM) and scientific director of IPCDD

Xiao Wang

Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Arizona State University, USA

Arturo Magana-Mora

Postdoctoral research fellow at AIST, Japan

Sonia Negrao

Research Scientist in the Biological, Environmental Sciences & Engineering Division at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia.

Salim Bougouffa

Postdoctoral Fellow at the Computational Bioscience Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia

Tadashi Imanishi

Professor at Tokai University School of Medicine and Visiting Professor at Hokkaido University, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology

Xiangliang Zhang

Associate Professor of Computer Science at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia

Christian R Voolstra

Associate Director of the Red Sea Research Center at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia

John Archer

Principal Research Scientist at the Computational Bioscience Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia

Maxat Kulmanov

PhD student at the Computational Bioscience Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia.

Panos Kalnis

Professor and Chair of the Computer Science program, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).

Roberto Incitti

Bioinformatician at the Computational Bioscience Research Center, King Abdulaah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia

Students

Ghofran Othoum

Ph.D. Student at the Computational Bioscience Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia

Yi Mei Ng

Ph.D. Student, KAUST

Alyaa Mohamed

Ph.D. Student , KAUST

Yu Li

Ph.D. Student, KAUST

Sarah Alghamdi

Master Student, KAUST