Timothy L. Bailey, Invited Speaker
Senior Research Fellow
Institute for Molecular Bioscience
University of Queensland
Brisbane, Qld 4072, Australia
Topic: Computational Tools for Understanding Transcriptional Regulation

Bernhard Baune, Invited Speaker
Associate Professor of Medicine
School of Medicine & Comparative Genomics Centre
James Cook University
Townsville, Qld 4811, Australia
Topic: Are Cerebral MRI Changes Related to Systemic Inflammation in the Aging Brain?

Jeanne Kowalski, Invited Speaker
Assistant Professor of Oncology and Biostatistics
Division of Oncology Biostatistics
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD, USA
Topic: From Ambiguities to Insights: Query-based Comparisons of High-Dimensional Data

Geoff McLachlan, Keynote Speaker
Professor and Head, Department of Mathematics
Professorial Research Fellow, Institute for Molecular Bioscience
University of Queensland
Brisbane, Qld 4072, Australia
Topic: Detection of Differential Expression in Microarray Data

Kenny De Meirleir , Keynote Speaker
Professor of Physiology and Medicine
Director of the Human Performance Laboratory (BLITS)
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (The Free University of Brussels)
Pleinlaan 2;  1050  Brussels, Belgium
Topic: Use of statistics to determine clusters in complex disease states

Robert F. Murphy, Keynote Speaker
Professor of Biological Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, and Machine Learning
Director, Center for Bioimage Informatics
Director, Joint CMU-Pitt Ph.D. Program in Computational Biology
President-elect, International Society for Analytical Cytology
Carnegie Mellon University
4400 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Topic: Automated Proteome-wide Determination and Modeling of Subcellular Location for Systems Biology

Mark A. Ragan, Keynote Speaker
Professor and Head, Genomics and Computational Biology
Institute for Molecular Bioscience
Professor, School of Information Technology & Electrical Engineering
Director, ARC Centre in Bioinformatics
University of Queensland
Brisbane, Qld 4072, Australia
Topic: The Visible Cell Project: Changing the Way We Think About Cells

Hong Yan, Keynote Speaker
Professor (Chair) of Computer Engineering
IEEE Fellow
Department of Electronic Engineering
City University of Hong Kong
Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR
Topic: Biclustering Analysis of DNA Microarray Data, with Applications to Disease Diagnosis and Drug Therapeutic Effect Assessment

Susan R. Wilson, Keynote Speaker
Professor, Statistical Science Program, Centre for Mathematics and its Applications
Director, Centre for Bioinformation Science
Australian National University
Canberra, ACT 0200 Australia
Topic: Modelling and Visualisation Methods for Gene Expression Data

Stephen T.C. Wong, Keynote Speaker
Vice Chair of Radiology
Chief of Medical Physics
Director, Bioinformatics Program, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute
The Methodist Hospital
Weill Medical College, Cornell University
Houston, TX 77030, USA
Topic: Combining Bioinformatics and Molecular Imaging for Personalized Medicine