PRIB 2008 Conference

Organizing Committee

General Chair:	Madhu Chetty, Monash University, Australia
General Co-Chair:	Raj Acharya, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Program Chairs:	Jagath C. Rajapakse, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Alioune Ngom, University of Windsor, Canada
Technical Chairs:	Elena Marchiori, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands Bertil Schmidt, NICTA, Australia Bill Wilson, CSIRO, Australia
Special Session Chairs:	Jennifer Hallinan, New Castle University, UK Alioune Ngom , University of Windsor, Canada
Short Paper Chairs:	Shandar Ahmed, Inst. of Biomedical Innovation, Japan Ponraj Prabhakaran, Duke University, USA Michael Grominha, Comp. Bio. Research Centre, Japan
Publicity Chairs:	Phoebe Chen, Deakin University, Australia Mariofanna Milanova, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA Shandar Ahmed, Inst. of Biomedical Innovation, Japan Md. Tamjidul Hoque, Griffith University, Autsralia
Publication Chairs:	Sy Loi Ho, NTU, Singapore Girija Chetty, University of Canberra, Australia
Local Organization Chair:	Shyh Wei Teng, Monash University, Australia
Sponsorship Chair:	Dieter Bulach, CSIRO, Australia
Finance Manager:	Tim Stephens, Monash University, Australia
Secretariat:	Tina Bradshaw, Monash University, Australia
Webmaster:	Margot Schuhmacher, Monash University, Australia
Technical Manager:	Glen Pringle, Monash University, Australia
Program Commitee:	Gary B. Fogel, Natural Selection, Inc., USA Geoff McLachlan, University of Queensland, Australia Justin Zobel, NICTA, Australia Tatsuya Akutsu, Kyoto University, Japan Jinyan Li, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Heiko Schroder, RMIT Australia Feng Lin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Hiroshi Matsuno, Yamaguchi University, Japan Mihail Popescu, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA Roberto Tagliaferri, Universita Di Salerno, Italy Yanqing Zhang, Georgia State University, USA Frederique Lisacek, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland Alexander Schliep, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany Martin Middendorf, University of Leipzig, Denmark Alexandru Floares, Oncological Institute Cluj-Napoca, Romania Vladimir Brusic, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA Vladimir Kuznetsov, Bioinformatics Institute, Singapore Wolfgang Banzhaf, Memorial Institute of Newfoundland, Canada James G. Evans, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Lukasz Kurgan, University of Alberta, Canada Christian Schoenbach, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Saman K. Halgamuge, University of Melbourne, Australia Wing Kin Sung, National University of Singapore, Singapore Visakan Kadirkamanathan, University of Sheffield, UK See-Kiong Ng, National University of Singapore, Singapore Nawaz Khan, Middlesex University, UK Sebastian Böcker, Friedrich-Schiller-Universitaet Jena, Germany Mona Singh, Princeton University, USA Zoe Lacroix, Arizona State University, USA Liu Weiguo, National Technological University, Singapore Y-h. Taguchi, Chuo Univ. ,Japan Seiya Imoto, University of Tokyo, Japan, Marie-France Sagot, INRIA, France Ingolf Sommer, Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics, Germany Nadia El-Mabrouk, University of Montreal, Canada	Satoru Miyano, University of Tokyo, Japan Amit Kumar, DNA Research Centre, India Mikael Boden, University of Queensland, Australia Niranjan Mahesan, University of Sheffield, UK Luis Rueda, University of Concepcion, Chile Shoaib Sehgal, University of Queensland, Australia Lusheng Wang, City University, Hong Kong Meena Sakharkar, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Conrad Burden, Australian National University, Australia Jaap Heringa, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands Guillaume Bourque, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore Alan Wee-Chung Liew, Griffith University, Australia Nikhil R Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, India Tim Bailey, University of Queensland, Australia Peter Clote, Boston College, USA Hon Wai Leong, National University of Singapore, Singapore James Bailey, University of Melbourne, Australia Adam Kowalczyk, NICTA, Australia Vladimir Likic, Bio21, Mol. Science and Biotech. Inst., Australia Kuldip Paliwal, Griffith University, Australia Iqbal Gondal, Monash University, Australia Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, Indian Statistical Institute, India Jin-Kao Hao, University of Angers, France Francis Chin, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Yun Cui, Shandong University, China Veli Makinen, University of Helsinki, Finland Frederics Cazals, INRIA, France Parvin Mousavi, Queens University, Canada Frederic Cazals, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France Bernard Moret, The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland Shunsuke Inenaga, Kyushu University, Japan Suash Deb, National Institute of Science and Technology, India R.K.M. Karuturi, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore Robin Gras, University of Windsor, Canada Michael Gromiha, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan Shakuntala Bulusu, DNA Research Centre, India


PRIB 2008 Organisers and Sponsors: Monash University and International Association for Pattern Recognition