Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events Organisation

General Chair, Scientific Chair

• Giuseppe Italiano is member of the Steering Committee of the Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experimentation (ALENEX), of the International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP), 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).

• Arnaud Mary is member of the Steering Committee of Workshop on Enumeration Problems and Applications (WEPA).

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

• Alexander Schönhuth is member of the Steering committee of the Research in Computational Molecular Biology, satellite conference on massively parallel sequencing (RECOMB-seq).

Member of the Organizing Committees

• Marie-France Sagot was co-organiser of the Dagstuhl Seminar on “Algorithmic Enumeration: Output-sensitive, Input-Sensitive, Parameterized, Approximative”, Dagstuhl Schloss, Oct 14 to 19, 2018.

• Alexander Schönhuth was main organiser of main organizer of the Lorentz workshop on “Single Cell Data Science”, Lorentz center, Leiden, June 4-8, 2018.

• Leen Stougie was member of the Organizing Committee of the 3rd Highlights of Algorithms (HALG 2018) conference in the Free University of Amsterdam, June 4-6, 2018.

Scientific Events Selection

Member of the Conference Program Committees

• Giuseppe Italiano was a member of the Program Committee of ISAAC,STOC, ICALP, and WALCOM in 2018.

• Arnaud Mary was a member of the Program Committee of CIAC in 2018.

• Nadia Pisanti was a member of the Program Committee of BIOINFORMATICS, FUN, ISBRA, BIOKDD, CIBB, Hi BI BI in 2018.

• Marie-France Sagot was a member of the Program Committee of SEA, CIAC, WABI, WEPA, in 2018.

• Alexander Schönhuth was a member of the Program Committee of RECOMB, ISMB, GCB (German bioinformatics conference), and ISMCO (International Symposium on Mathematical and Computational Oncology) in 2018.

Reviewer

Members of ERABLE have reviewed papers for a number of workshops and conferences including: CPM, ISMB, RECOMB, WEPA, WABI.

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 the 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, and Lecture Notes in BioInformatics.

• Leen Stougie is member of the Editorial Board of AIMS Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization.

• 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 a number of journals including: Theoretical Computer Science, Algorithmica, Algorithms for Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, BMC Bioinformatics, Genome Biology, Genome Research, IEEE/ACM Transactions in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB), Molecular Biology and Evolution, Nucleic Acid Research.

Invited Talks

Giuseppe Italiano gave an Invited Talk on “2-Connectivity in Directed Graphs” at the 17th International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA 2018) (http://cs.gssi.it/sea2018/, in L’Aquila, Italy, June 27–29, 2018.

Vincent Lacroix gave an Invited Presentation on “Traitement des données -omics” at the “9ème réunion annuelle Institut Thématique Multi-Organismes Technologies pour la Santé”, https://its.aviesan.fr/index.php?pagendx=1046.

Alexander Schönhuth gave Invited Talks at the CONTRA workshop, Warszaw (organisers: Jens Lagergren, Ewa Szczurek, Niko Beerenwinkel), in September and at Harvard Medical School, Boston, in October.

Leen Stougie gave an Invited Talk on “A decomposition theory for vertex enumeration of convex polyhedra” at the Martin Dyer Day and Queen Mary Algorithms Day, Queen Mary University, London, UK, July 16-17, 2018. He gave Invited Lectures on “Full-length de novo viral quasispecies assembly through variation graph construction” at the 4th Dutch Bioinformatics & Systems Biology Conference, De Werelt, Lunteren, Netherlands, May 15; on “Polynomial time vertex enumeration of convex polytopes of bounded branch-width” at the Department of Mathematics, University of Bremen, Germany, Sept 11; and on “Algorithmic Problems in Biological Networks” at the 9th Networks Day, Hortus Botanicus, Leiden, Netherlands, Sept 19, 2018.

Fabrice Vavre gave Invited Talks on “Impact du microbiote sur l'évolution et la diversité des insectes” at the Colloque de la Société Francophone de Microbiologie, Paris, Oct 1-3, 2018; and on “Evolution of host-microbiota interactions: what insects tell us about selection levels?” at the Journées de l’IXXI, Lyon, Oct 16, 2018.

Scientific Expertise

Giuseppe F. Italiano is member of the Council of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science. Leen Stougie is member of the General Board of the Dutch Network on the Mathematics of Operations Research (Landelijk Netwerk Mathematische Besliskunde (LNMB)).

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 was Director of the Department of Computer Engineering and Management Antonio Ruberti at Sapienza University from 2013 until end of May 2018.

Nadia Pisanti is since November 1st 2017 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).

Marie-France Sagot is member of the Advisory Board of CWI, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and chair of the CSS for MBIO at Inra.

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 was until Feb 2018 Deputy Scientific Director at Inria responsible for the ICST for Life and Environmental Sciences. He thus represented 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”.

Fabrice Vavre is President of the Section 29 of the CoNRS and participated to the HCERES Evaluation Committee of the IAME Laboratory (UMR1137, Dir. E. Denamur), Paris, Mar 1-2, 2018.

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.