Keynote

Eran Segal is a computational biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science. He works on developing quantitative models for all levels of gene regulation, including transcription, chromatin, and translation. He gained his BA in Computer Science and Economics from Tel Aviv University in 1998 and his PhD from Stanford University in 2004 advised by Daphne Koller. In 2007 he was awarded the Overton Prize by the International Society for Computational Biology. In 2011 he was made a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
 

Pavel Pevzner holds the Ronald R. Taylor Chair in Computer Science, and leads the department's Bioinformatics Laboratory. He joined the UCSD faculty in 2000, following five years in the University of Southern California's Mathematics and Computer Science departments. From 1992-95, he was an associate professor at Pennsylvania State University, where he was affiliated with both the Biotechnology Institute and the Institute for Molecular Evolutionary Genetics. From 1990-92 Pevzner was a postdoctoral researcher at USC.