Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific events organisation

General chair, scientific chair

• Giuseppe Italiano is member of the Steering Committee Member of the Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experimentation (ALENEX), the International Conference on Algorithms and Complexity (CIAC), and the Workshop/Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA).

• Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela is a member of the Steering committee of Workshop on Graph Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science (WG)), and of Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modeling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS).

• Marie-France Sagot is member of the Steering Committee of European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB) and International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA).

Member of the Organising Committees

• Alexander Schönhuth was main organiser of “Data Structures in Bioinformatics”, Amsterdam, 21-22/02/2017, and publicity chair of RECOMB 2017.

• Fabrice Vavre was member of the Organisation Committee of the Colloquium Immuninv (“Immunité des invertébrés”) in 2017.

• Cristina Vieira co-organised the Symposium “Evolutionary implications of transposable elements, epigenetics, and non-genetic inheritance” at the biennial ESEB (European Society for Evolutionary Biology) congress in 2017.

Scientific Events Selection

Chair of Conference Program Committees

• Leen Stougie was Chair of the Program Committee of MAPSP in 2017.

Member of the Conference Program Committees

• Pierluigi Crescenzi was a member of the Program Committee of ICTCS in 2017.

• Roberto Grossi was a member of the Program Committee of ICALP in 2017.

• Vincent Lacroix was a member of the Program Committee of JOBIM in 2017.

• Giuseppe Italiano was a member of the Program Committee of SPIRE, FAW, and STACS in 2017.

• Nadia Pisanti was a member of the program committee of WALCOM, BIOINFORMATICS, CPM, ISBRA, CIBB, Hi BI BI, emphWABI, and ICCABS in 2017.

• Marie-France Sagot was a member of the Program Committee of ISMB/ECCB, PSC, RECOMB-CG, and WABI in 2017.

• Alexander Schönhuth was a member of the Program Committee of RECOMB, ISMB, ACM-BCB, GCB (German bioinformatics conference), and BioSB (Dutch bioinformatics conference) in 2017.

• Leen Stougie was member of the Program Committee of RECOMB in 2017.

Reviewer

Besides the above, various other members of ERABLE have been reviewer for other international conferences, such as SODA etc.

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards

• Pierluigi Crescenzi is member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Computer and Systems Science and Electronic Notes on Theoretical Computer Science.

• Roberto Grossi is member of the Editorial Board of Theory of Computing Systems (TOCS) and pf RAIRO – Theoretical Informatics and Applications.

• Giuseppe Italiano is member of Editorial Board of Algorithmica and Theoretical Computer Science.

• Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela is member of the Editorial Board of Theoretical Computer Science.

• Arnaud Mary is Editor-in-Chief of a special issue of Discrete Applied Mathematics dedicated to WEPA 2016.

• Nadia Pisanti is since 2012 member of Editorial Board of International Journal of Computer Science and Application (IJCSA) and since 2017 of Network Modeling Analysis in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics.

• Marie-France Sagot is member of the Editorial Board of BMC Bioinformatics, Algorithms for Molecular Biology, Journal of Discrete Algorithms, and Lecture Notes in BioInformatics.

• Leen Stougie is member of the Editorial Board of Surveys in Operations Research and Management Science since 2011, and of Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization since 2013.

• Cristina Vieira is Executive Editor of Gene, and since 2014 member of the Editorial Board of Mobile DNA.

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities

Members of ERABLE have reviewed papers for the following journals: Theoretical Computer Science, Algorithmica, IEEE/ACM Transactions in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB), Algorithms for Molecular Biology, Scientific Reports, Journal of Computational Biology, BMC Bioinformatics, Computing and Informatics, BMC Evolutionary Biology, Genetica, Gene, Genome Biology and Evolution, Genetical Research, Genome Research, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, PLoS Genetics, Mutation research, mBio, Frontiers in Microbiology, Infection, genetics and evolution, PLoS Biology. Nature Communications.

Invited Talks

Giuseppe Italiano gave talks at the 4th Workshop on Graph Theory, Algorithms and Applications, Erice, Italy, 5-13 May, 2017 on “2-Connectivity in Directed Graphs”, and at the 10th International Conference on Algorithms and Complexity (CIAC 2017), Athens, Greece, May 24-26, 2017 (http://www.corelab.ntua.gr/ciac2017/) on “2-Edge- and 2-Vertex- Connectivity in Directed Graphs”.

Vincent Lacroix gave talks at the MIAT INRA Seminar, Toulouse, Feb 2017 on “De novo identification of SNPs from RNA-seq data in non-model species”, and at the Aviesan ITMO Santé 9th annual meeting (https://its.aviesan.fr/index.php?pagendx=1046), Lyon, Nov 2017 on “Complementarity of assembly-first and mapping-first approaches for alternative splicing annotation and differential analysis from RNA-seq data”.

Alexander Schönhuth gave talks at the FCHealth Meeting, Helsinki (organiser: Veli Mäkinen) on “Disentangling the genetic diversity of pathogens at the strain level using overlap graphs”, the Computational Genomics Summer Institute (http://computationalgenomics.bioinformatics.ucla.edu), University of California at Los Angeles on “Polyploid Genome Assembly”, and the Bertinoro Computational Biology (BCB) 2017 (https://bertinoro2017.wordpress.com, organisers: Sohrab Shah, UBC Vancouver; Jens Lagergren, Stockholm), on “Discovering somatic variants in single cells”.

Leen Stougie gave a talk at the Workshop on Stochastic Programming Honoring Maarten van der Vlerk, Groningen, The Netherlands, 10-11 August 2017, on “Stochastic and Robust Scheduling”.

Leadership within the Scientific Community

Giuseppe Italiano is Member of the Council of EATCS, the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science.

Leen Stougie is Member of the general board ofthe Dutch Network on the Mathematics of Operations Research (Landelijk Netwerk Mathematische Besliskunde (LNMB)). He is also Chairman Program Committee Econometrics and OR, VU Amsterdam and Member of the Board of the research school ABRI-VU, Amsterdam.

Marie-France Sagot and Fabrice Vavre are members of the Steering Committee of the LabEx Ecofect (http://ecofect.universite-lyon.fr/).

Scientific Expertise

Marie-France Sagot is member of the Advisory Board of the CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and chair of the “Commissions Scientifiques Spécialisées” (CSS) of the INRA for the Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science.

Fabrice Vavre is president of the Section 29 of the Comité National de la Recherche Scientifique (CoNRS).

Research Administration

Hubert Charles is director of the Biosciences Department of the Insa-Lyon and co-director of studies of the “Bioinformatique et Modélisation (BIM)” track.

Giuseppe Italiano is member of the Advisory Board of MADALGO - Center for MAssive Data ALGOrithmics, Aarhus, Denmark.

Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela is Director of the Department of Computer Engineering and Management Antonio Ruberti at Sapienza University since 2013.

Nadia Pisanti was since 2013 and until October 31st 2017 member of the Board of the Regional PhD School of Computer Science at the University of Pisa, Italy. Since November 1st 2017, she is member of the Board of the PhD School in Data Science (University of Pisa jointly with Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa, Scuola S. Anna Pisa, IMT Lucca).

Alexander Schönhuth is member of the Scientific Board of BioSB (the Dutch organisation for bioinformatics) since May 2017.

Leen Stougie is since April 2017 Leader of the Life Science Group at CWI.

Alain Viari is since 2012 Deputy Scientific Director at Inria responsible for the ICST for Life and Environmental Sciences. He thus represents Inria at several national instances related to Life Sciences and Health (Allenvi, Aviesan, Ibisa, etc.). He is member of a number of scientific advisory boards (IRT (Institut de Recherche Technologique) BioAster; Centre Léon Bérard). He also coordinates together with J.-F. Deleuze (CNRGH-Evry) the Research & Development part (CRefIX) of the “Plan France Médecine Génomique 2025”.

Cristina Vieira is member of the “Conseil National des Universités” (CNU) 67 (“Biologie des Populations et Écologie”), and since 2017 member of the “Conseil de la Faculté des Sciences et Technologies (FST)” of the University Lyon 1.