List of Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology keynote speakers


The following is a list of Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology keynote speakers.
ISMB is an academic conference on the subjects of bioinformatics and computational biology organised by the International Society for Computational Biology. The conference has been held annually since 1993 and keynote talks have been presented since 1994. Keynotes are chosen to reflect outstanding research in bioinformatics. The recipients of the ISCB Overton Prize and ISCB Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award are invited to give keynote talks as part of the programme.
Keynote speakers include eight Nobel laureates: Richard J. Roberts, John Sulston, Manfred Eigen, Gerald Edelman, Sydney Brenner, Kurt Wüthrich, Robert Huber and Michael Levitt.

List of Speakers

ConferenceKeynote SpeakersTitleNotes
ISMB 1994Bruce Buchanan
ISMB 1994Lawrence HunterPlenary speaker
ISMB 1994Richard J. RobertsPlenary speaker
ISMB 1995Douglas Brutlag
ISMB 1995John Sulston
ISMB 1995Janet Thornton
ISMB 1996Robert Waterston
ISMB 1996David Haussler
ISMB 1996Russell Doolittle
ISMB 1996Chris Sander
ISMB 1997Richard H. Lathrop
ISMB 1997Marcie McClure
ISMB 1997Hans Westerhoff
ISMB 1998Robert Cedergren
ISMB 1998Michael Waterman
ISMB 1998Shoshana Wodak
ISMB 1999Manfred EigenThe Origin of Biological Information
ISMB 1999Amos BairochSwiss-Prot in the 21st century!
ISMB 1999Richard M. KarpCombinatorial Problems in Gene expression Analysis Using DNA microarrays
ISMB 1999Anthony R. KerlavageComputational genomics: Biological Discovery in Complete Genomes
ISMB 1999Eugene KooninComparative genomics: Is it changing the paradigm of evolutionary biology?
ISMB 1999David BalabanGenes, Chips, and Genomes
ISMB 1999Matthias MannGene Function via the Mass Spectrometric Analysis of Multi-Protein Complexes-
ISMB 1999Michael SternbergExploiting Protein Structure in the Post-genome Era
ISMB 2000Gerald Edelman
ISMB 2000Leroy Hood
ISMB 2000Minoru Kanehisa
ISMB 2000J. Andrew McCammon
ISMB 2000Eugene Myers
ISMB 2000Harold Scheraga
ISMB 2000David Searls
ISMB 2001Christopher Burge
ISMB 2001Chris Dobson
ISMB 2001Sean Eddy
ISMB 2001David Eisenberg
ISMB 2001Bernardo Huberman
ISMB 2001Chris Sander
ISMB 2001Gunnar von Heijne
ISMB 2002Stephen AltschulAssessing the accuracy of database search methods, and improving the performance of PSI-BLAST
ISMB 2002Michael Ashburner
ISMB 2002Ford Doolittle
ISMB 2002Terry Gaasterland
ISMB 2002Barry Honig
ISMB 2002David Baker2002 ISCB Overton Prize winner
ISMB 2002John Reinitz
ISMB 2002Isidore Rigoutsos
ISMB 2003Sydney BrennerThe Evolution of Genes and Genomes
ISMB 2003David HausslerIdentifying functional elements in the human genome by tracing the evolutionary history of the bases: a key challenge for comparative genomics
ISMB 2003Yoshihide HayashizakiDynamic Eukaryotic Transcriptome
ISMB 2003Jim KentPatching and Painting the Human Genome2003 ISCB Overton Prize winner
ISMB 2003John MattickProgramming of the autopoietic development of complex organisms: the hidden layer of noncoding RNA
ISMB 2003David SankoffThe Parameters of Genome Rearrangement2003 ISCB Senior Scientist Award winner
ISMB 2003Ron ShamirReconstructing Genetic Networks
ISMB 2003Michael WatermanDynamic Programming Algorithms for Haplotype Block Partitioning
ISMB/ECCB 2004Leroy HoodSystems Biology: Strategies for Deciphering Life
ISMB/ECCB 2004Denis NobleComputational systems biology of the heart
ISMB/ECCB 2004Eric D. GreenDecoding the Human Genome by Multi-Species Sequence Comparisons
ISMB/ECCB 2004Svante PääboEvolution of the primate transcriptome
ISMB/ECCB 2004Matthias MannOrganellar and time resolved proteomics
ISMB/ECCB 2004Anna TramontanoProgress, assessment and perspectives in protein structure prediction
ISMB/ECCB 2004Uri AlonSimplicity in complex biological networks2004 ISCB Overton Prize winner
ISMB/ECCB 2004David J. LipmanMessage and meaning in sequence comparison: is systems biology possible?2004 ISCB Senior Scientist Award winner
ISMB 2005Howard CashBiology of Life and Death: Disaster, DNA and the Information Science of Human Identification
ISMB 2005Gunnar von HeijneMembrane Proteins in vivo and in silico - Getting the Best of Two Worlds
ISMB 2005Jill MesirovGene Expression Analysis: A Knowledge-based Approach
ISMB 2005Pavel A. PevznerTransforming Men into Mice: Fragile versus Random Breakage Models of Chromosome Evolution
ISMB 2005Peter HunterComputational Physiology and the IUPS Physiome Project
ISMB 2005Satoru MiyanoComputational Challenges for Gene Networks
ISMB 2005Ewan BirneyGenomes to Systems Biology2005 ISCB Overton Prize winner
ISMB 2005Janet ThorntonFrom Proteins to Life - Old and New Challenges2005 ISCB Senior Scientist Award winner
ISMB 2006Robert HuberMolecular machines for protein degradation
ISMB 2006Tom BlundellStructural biology, informatics and the discovery of new medicines
ISMB 2006Kurt WüthrichComputational Aspects of NMR Studies with Proteins in Solution
ISMB 2006Mathieu BlanchetteWhat mammalian genomes tell us about our ancestors, and vice versa2006 ISCB Overton Prize winner
ISMB 2006Elena ContiMolecular mechanisms in RNA degradation
ISMB 2006Charles DeLisiNew Approaches to Biomarker Discovery
ISMB 2006Richard J. RobertsThe need of Bioinformatics for experimental biologists
ISMB 2006Michael WatermanWhole Genome Optical Mapping2006 ISCB Senior Scientist Award winner
ISMB/ECCB 2007Eran SegalQuantitative Models for Chromatin and Transcription Regulation2007 ISCB Overton Prize winner
ISMB/ECCB 2007Temple F. SmithComputational Biology: What is next?2007 ISCB Senior Scientist Award winner
ISMB/ECCB 2007Søren BrunakUnderstanding interactomes by data integration
ISMB/ECCB 2007Stephen K. BurleyFragment-based discovery of BCR-ABL inhibitors for treatment of chronic myelogenous leukemia
ISMB/ECCB 2007Michael EisenUnderstanding and exploiting the evolution of the sequences that control gene expression
ISMB/ECCB 2007Anne-Claude GavinInteraction Networks Probed by Mass Spectrometry
ISMB/ECCB 2007John MattickThe majority of the genome of complex organisms is devoted to an RNA regulatory system that directs differentiation and development
ISMB/ECCB 2007Erin K. O'SheaDissecting Transcriptional Network Structure and Function
ISMB/ECCB 2007Renée SchroederGenomic SELEX for the identification of novel non-coding RNAs independent of their expression level
ISMB/ECCB 2007Terry SpeedGenome-wide genotyping: the great classification challenge
ISMB 2008Aviv RegevModular biology: the function and evolution of molecular networks2008 ISCB Overton Prize winner
ISMB 2008David Haussler100 Million Years of Evolutionary History of the Human Genome2008 ISCB Senior Scientist Award winner
ISMB 2008Claire M. Fraser-LiggettMicrobial Communities in Health and Disease
ISMB 2008David JaffeTiny bits and pieces: new sequencing technologies and what they can do for you
ISMB 2008Eugene MyersImaging Bioinformatics
ISMB 2008Morag ParkProfiling the Breast Tumor Microenvironment
ISMB 2008Bernhard PalssonSystems Biology: an era of reconstruction and interrogation
ISMB 2008Hanah MargalitIntriguing roles for small non-coding RNAs in the cellular regulatory networks
ISMB/ECCB 2009Trey IdekerNew Challenges and Opportunities in Network Biology2009 ISCB Overton Prize winner
ISMB/ECCB 2009Webb MillerBioinformatics Methods to Study Species Extinctions2009 ISCB Senior Scientist Award winner
ISMB/ECCB 2009Pierre-Henri GouyonInformation and Biology
ISMB/ECCB 2009Daphne KollerIndividual Genetic Variation: From Networks to Mechanisms
ISMB/ECCB 2009Thomas LengauerChasing the AIDS Virus
ISMB/ECCB 2009Eugenia María del Pino VeintimillaThe comparative analysis reveals independence of developmental processes during early development in frogs
ISMB/ECCB 2009Tomaso PoggioComputational Neuroscience: Models of the Visual System
ISMB/ECCB 2009Mathias UhlénA global view on protein expression based on the Human Protein Atlas
ISMB 2010Steven E. BrennerUltraconserved nonsense: gene regulation by splicing & RNA surveillance2010 ISCB Overton Prize winner
ISMB 2010Susan LindquistProtein Folding and Environmental Stress REDRAW the Relationship between Genotype and Phenotype
ISMB 2010Svante PääboAnalyses of Pleistocene Genomes
ISMB 2010Chris SanderSystems Biology of Cancer Cells2010 ISCB Senior Scientist Award winner
ISMB 2010David AltshulerGenomic Variation and the Inherited Basis of Common Disease
ISMB 2010George M. ChurchBI/O: Reading and Writing Genomes
ISMB 2010Robert WeinbergCancer Stem Cells and the Evolution of MalignancySpecial Public Lecture
ISMB/ECCB 2011Bonnie BergerComputational biology in the 21st century: making sense out of massive data
ISMB/ECCB 2011Olga TroyanskayaIntegrating computation and experiments for a molecular-level understanding of human disease2011 ISCB Overton Prize winner
ISMB/ECCB 2011Janet ThorntonThe Evolution of Enzyme Mechanisms and Functional DiversityECCB 10th Anniversary Keynote
ISMB/ECCB 2011Alfonso ValenciaChallenges for Bioinformatics in Personalized Cancer Medicine2011 ISCB Fellow
ISMB/ECCB 2011Luis SerranoM. pneumoniae
ISMB/ECCB 2011Michael AshburnerFrom sequences to ontologies - adventures in informatics2011 ISCB Senior Scientist Award winner
ISMB 2012Richard H. Lathrop & Lawrence HunterSeeing forward by looking backISMB 20th Anniversary Keynote
ISMB 2012Ziv Bar-JosephData integration for understanding dynamic biological systems2012 ISCB Overton Prize winner
ISMB 2012Barbara WoldAnalysis of transcriptome structure and chromatin landscapes
ISMB 2012Richard M. DurbinProgress, challenges and opportunities in population genome sequencing2012 ISCB Fellow
ISMB 2012Andrej ŠaliIntegrative Structural Biology
ISMB 2012Gunnar von HeijneThe other Third: Coming to grips with membrane proteins2012 ISCB Senior Scientist Award winner
ISMB/ECCB 2013Gil AstHow Chromatin organization and epigenetics talk with alternative splicing
ISMB/ECCB 2013Gonçalo AbecasisInsights from Sequencing Thousands of Human Genomes2013 ISCB Overton Prize winner
ISMB/ECCB 2013Lior PachterSequencing based functional genomics
ISMB/ECCB 2013Gary StormoSearching for Signals in Sequences2013 ISCB Fellow
ISMB/ECCB 2013Carole GobleResults may vary: what is reproducible? why do open science and who gets the credit?
ISMB/ECCB 2013David EisenbergProtein Interactions in Health and Disease2013 ISCB Senior Scientist Award winner
ISMB 2014Isaac KohaneBiomedical Quants of the World Unite! We only have our disease burden to lose
ISMB 2014Eugene MyersDNA Assembly: Past, Present, and Future2014 ISCB Senior Scientist Award winner
ISMB 2014Michal LinialGood Things Come in Small Packages – Replicators and Innovators
ISMB 2014Dana Pe'erA multidimensional single cell approach to understand cellular behavior2014 ISCB Overton Prize winner
ISMB 2014Robert S. LangerBiomaterials and biotechnology: From the discovery of the first angiogenesis inhibitors to the development of controlled drug delivery systems and the foundation of tissue engineering
ISMB 2014Russ AltmanInformatics for understanding drug response at all scales2014 ISCB Fellow
ISMB 2015Michael LevittBirth & Future of Multiscale Modeling of Macromolecules
ISMB 2015Curtis HuttenhowerUnderstanding microbial community function and the human microbiome in health and disease2015 ISCB Overton Prize winner
ISMB 2015Eileen FurlongGenome regulation during embryonic development
ISMB 2015Kenneth H WolfeTBA
ISMB 2015Cyrus ChothiaTBA2015 ISCB Senior Scientist Award winner
ISMB 2015Amos BairochTBA2015 ISCB Fellow
ISMB 2016Ruth NussinovRas signaling: a challenge to the biological sciences2016 ISCB Fellow
ISMB 2016Debora Marks2016 ISCB Overton Prize winner
ISMB 2016Sandrine DudoitIdentification of Novel Cell Types in the Brain Using Single-Cell Transcriptome Sequencing
ISMB 2016Sarah TeichmannUnderstanding Cellular Heterogeneity
ISMB 2016Serafim Batzoglou2016 ISCB Innovator Award winner
ISMB 2016Søren Brunak2016 ISCB Senior Scientist Award winner