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):
Richard Edwards (2019-)
Pengyi Yang (2024-)
Shila Ghazanfar (2022-)
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