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 of 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

• Leen Stougie was co-organiser of MAPSP 2019, Jun 2019, Hotel Zeeuwse Stromen, Renesse; and of the Networks Workshop on Random graphs, counting and sampling, Sep 2019, CWI, Amsterdam.

Scientific Events: Selection

Member of the Conference Program Committees

• Giuseppe Italiano was a member of the Program Committee of APF, ATMOS, and CIAC.

• Arnaud Mary was a member of the Program Committee of MFCS, and WEPA.

• Nadia Pisanti was a member of the Program Committee of BIOINFORMATICS, CPM, ICCS, ISBRA, IWOCA, and WABI.

• Marie-France Sagot was a member of the Program Committee of BIBM, CIAC, CPM, PSC, RecombCG, d anWABI.

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

• 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.

• Vincent Lacroix is recommender for Peer Community in Genomics, see https://genomics.peercommunityin.org/.

• 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: invited talk on “2-Connectivity on Directed Graphs", 14th Computer Science Symposium in Russia (CSR 2019), Novosibirsk, Russia.

• Nadia Pisanti: Invited talk on “Mapping Reads on a Pan-Genome: Pattern Matching on Degenerate Texts", 1st Workshop on Computational Pan-Genomics, Bielefeld, Germany; Invited talk on “On-line (approximate) Pattern Matching on Degenerate Texts and Applications", 14th Workshop on Compression, Text and Algorithms (WCTA), Segovia, Spain.

• Solon Pissis: Invited talk on “Even Faster Elastic-Degenerate String Matching via Fast Matrix Multiplication", Algorithms Group Seminar Series, 24 Oct 2019, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland; Invited talk on “When linear space is impractical: computing absent words in output-sensitive space", Bonsai Bioinformatics Seminar Series, 11 Jun 2019, Université de Lille, Lille, France; Invited talk on “Elastic-degenerate strings: a new representation for pattern matching in a collection of similar texts", Computer Science Seminar Series, Feb 12 2019, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.

• Leen Stougie: Invited talk on “Fixed-Order Scheduling on parallel machines", Workshop on Combinatorial Optimization, 26-27 September 2019, TU Berlin, Germany.

• Cristina Vieira: Invited talk on “Contribution of Transposable element to gene expression in Drosophila (and other)", XI Symposium of Ecology, Genetic and Drosophila Evolution, November 2019, Pelotas, Brazil.

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.

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. He is member of the General Board of the Dutch Network on the Mathematics of Operations Research (Landelijk Netwerk Mathematische Besliskunde (LNMB)), and member of the Management Team of the Gravity project Networks.

Alain Viari 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 CoNRS8.

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.