Committees and roles

Executive committee members

President: Jimmy Breen (2020-)

Vice-President: Jessica Mar (2023-)

Past-President: Tony Papenfuss (2024-)

Treasurer: Mirana Ramialison (2021-)

Secretary: Anna Trigos (2020-)

Post-doctoral Representative: Feargal Ryan (2023-)

Student Representative: Carissa Chen (2024-)

Professional Bioinformatician Representative: Amit Kumar (2023-)

Diversity Representative: Nikeisha Caruana (2024-)

Ordinary members (4 positions):

  1. Richard Edwards (2019-)

  2. Pengyi Yang (2024-)

  3. Shila Ghazanfar (2022-)

  4. Giulia Iacono (2024-)

Past executive committee members

President:

  • Aaron Darling (2018-2020)

  • Tony Papenfuss (2014-2018)

Vice-President:

  • Melissa Davis (2021-2022)

  • Jimmy Breen (2019-2020)

  • Alicia Oshlack (2018-2019)

  • Aaron Darling (2017-2018)

  • Ashley Waardenberg (2014-2017)

Past-president:

  • Aaron Darling (2020-2023)

  • Tony Papenfuss (2018-2020)

Treasurer:

  • Annette Mcgrath (2017-2021)

  • Melissa Davis (2014-2017)

Secretary:

  • Sebastian Kurscheid (2018-2020)

  • Ashley Waardenberg (2018)

  • Joshua Ho (2016-2018)

  • David Lovell (2014-2016)

Post-doctoral Representative:

  • Gabriel Foley (2022)

  • Ignatius Pang (2019-2021)

  • Jovana Maksimovic (2018-2019)

  • Alan Rubin (2016-2018)

  • Liam Fearnley (2016)

Student Representative:

  • Sachintha Wijegunasekara (2023)

  • Ariane Mora (2021-2022)

  • Tingting Gong (2019-2021)

  • Leah Roberts (2017-2019)

  • Harriet Dashnow (2016-2017)

  • Andrew Lonsdale (2014-2016)

Professional Bioinformatician Representative:

  • Monther Alhamdoosh (2020-2022)

  • Roxane Legaie (2017-2019)

Ordinary member:

  • Ellis Patrick (2023)

  • Matt Field (2020-2023)

  • Jessica Mar (2020-2022)

  • Nicola Armstrong (2016-2022)

  • David Ascher (2019-2020)

  • Jimmy Breen (2018-2019)

  • Alicia Oshlack (2017-2018)

  • David Lynn (2016-2017)

Student Sub-committee

The COMBINE Student Sub-committee website is here.

ABACBS conferences

ABACBS-2023 Conference

Co-convenors: Jessica Mar & Cheong Xin Chan

ABACBS-2022 Conference

Co-convenors: Mirana Ramialison & Nick Wong


ABACBS-2021 Conference

Convenor: Michael Charleston

ABACBS-2020 Conference

Convenor: Eduardo Eyras

Joint International Conference on Genome Informatics and ABACBS-2019

Conference chair: Tony Papenfuss

ABACBS Co-convenors: Jean Yang and Mark Cowley

GIW Co-convenors: Shoba Ranganathan and Joshua Ho

ABACBS-2018 Conference

Co-convenors: Melissa Davis & Tony Papenfuss


ABACBS-2017 Conference

Convenor: David Lynn


ABACBS-2016 Conference

Co-conveners: David Lovell, Tony Parker & Nic Waddell


ABACBS-2015 Conference

Co-conveners: Nicola Armstrong & Richard Edwards