Dear colleagues, The 17th RECOMB Satellite Conference on Comparative Genomics, RECOMB-CG 2019 will be held in Montpellier, France - October 1-4, 2019. **PROGRAM** Preliminary program is available online: <https://recombcg2019.bitbucket.io/program.html> **PARTICIPATION** Registration is open, please check <https://recombcg2019.bitbucket.io> for details. The early registration deadline is SEPTEMBER 9, 2019. **KEYNOTE SPEAKERS** Alessandra Carbone <http://www.ihes.fr/~carbone/> (CNRS - Sorbonne Université) Rute A. R. da Fonseca <https://rutefonseca.wixsite.com/bioinformatics> (University of Copenhagen) Purificación López García <http://www.singek.eu/network/supervisors/purificacion-lopez-garcia/> (CNRS - University Paris-Sud/Paris-Saclay) Romain Koszul <https://research.pasteur.fr/en/member/romain-koszul/> (Insitut Pasteur) Benoît Nabholz <https://sites.google.com/site/benoitnabholz/> (Université de Montpellier) **SCOPE** The RECOMB-CG satellite conference brings together leading researchers in the mathematical, computational and life sciences to discuss cutting edge research in comparative genomics, with an emphasis on computational approaches and novel experimental results. The program includes both invited speakers, contributed talks and poster sessions. Contributions on any theoretical and/or empirical approach to genome-wide comparison are welcome. Topics of interest include genome evolution, population genomics, genome rearrangements, genomic variation, diversity and dynamics, phylogenomics, comparative tools for genome assembly, comparison of functional networks, gene identification or annotation, cancer evolutionary genomics, comparative epigenomics, paleogenomics, epidemiology and related areas. **COMMITTEES** Steering Committee * *Marília Braga * (Bielefeld University) * *Dannie Durand * (Carnegie Mellon University) * *Jens Lagergren * (Stockholm University) * *Aoife McLysaght * (Trinity College Dublin) * *Luay Nakhleh * (Rice University) * *David Sankoff * (University of Ottawa) Organizing Committee * *Severine Berard* (ISEM, University of Montpellier) * *Annie Chateau* (LIRMM, University of Montpellier) * *Krister Swenson* (CNRS, LIRMM, University of Montpellier) * *Mathias Weller* (CNRS, LIGM, University of Eastern Paris - Marne-la-Vallée) * *Virginie Feche* (LIRMM) * *Megane Miquel* (LIRMM) Program Committee Chaired by *Krister Swenson* (CNRS, LIRMM, University of Montpellier), *Annie Chateau* (LIRMM, University of Montpellier), *Severine Berard* (ISEM, University of Montpellier), and *Mathias Weller* (CNRS, LIGM, University of Eastern Paris - Marne-la-Vallée) * *Max Alekseyev * (George Washington University) * *Nikita Alexeev * (ITMO University) * *Lars Arvestad * (Stockholm University) * *Anne Bergeron * (Universite du Quebec a Montreal) * *Marilia Braga * (Bielefeld University) * *Alessandra Carbone * (Sorbonne Université) * *Cedric Chauve * (Simon Fraser University) * *Rayan Chikhi * (Institut Pasteur) * *Daniel Doerr * (Bielefeld University) * *Ingo Ebersberger * (Goethe University Frankfurt) * *Nadia El-Mabrouk * (University of Montreal) * *Oliver Eulenstein * (Iowa State University) * *Guillaume Fertin * (LS2N, Université de Nantes) * *Pawel Gorecki * (University of Warsaw) * *Michael Hallett * (Concordia University) * *Fábio Henrique Viduani Martinez * (Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul) * *Katharina Jahn * (ETH Zurich) * *Asif Javed * (Genome Institute of Singapore) * *Manuel Lafond * (Université de Sherbrooke) * *Yu Lin * (Australian National University) * *Simone Linz * (The University of Auckland) * *Kevin Liu * (Michigan State University) * *István Miklós * (Rényi Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences) * *Bernard Moret * (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) * *Luay Nakhleh * (Rice University) * *Aïda Ouangraou * (University of Sherbrooke) * *Fabio Pardi * (CNRS, LIRMM, Université Montpellier) * *Teresa Przytycka * (NCBI) * *Vaibhav Rajan * (National University of Singapore) * *Marie-France Sagot * (INRIA, LBBE, Lyon) * *Michael Sammeth * (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) * *Celine Scornavacca * (CNRS, ISE-M, Université Montpellier) * *Mingfu Shao * (The Pennsylvania State University) * *Jens Stoye * (Bielefeld University) * *Jijun Tang * (University of South Carolina) * *Eric Tannier * (INRIA, LBBE, Lyon) * *Glenn Tesler * (University of California San Diego) * *Olivier Tremblay-Savard * (University of Manitoba) * *Tamir Tuller * (Tel Aviv University) * *Jean-Stéphane Varré * (CRIStAL, Université Lille 1) * *Tandy Warnow * (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) * *Sophia Yancopoulos * (The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, New York) * *Louxin Zhang * (National University of Singapore) * *Xiuwei Zhang * (University of California, Berkeley) * *Jie Zheng * (ShanghaiTech University) We are looking forward to seeing you in Montpellier! The recomb'cg 2019 organizing committee