Michael W.W. Adams University of Georgia, USA
Haruyuki Atomi Kyoto University, Japan
Nils-Kåre Birkeland University of Bergen, Norway
Jenny Blamey Fundación Científica y Cultural Biociencia, Chile
Elizaveta Bonch-Osmolovskaya Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology, Russia
Don Cowan University of Pretoria, South Africa
Olga Golyshina University of Bangor, UK
Yoshizumi Ishino Kyushu University, Japan
Mohamed Jebbar University of Brest, France
Sung Gyun Kang Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology,  Korea
Jennifer Littlechild University of Exeter, UK
Marco Moracci University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Volker Müller University of Frankfurt, Germany
Eveline Peeters Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Anna-Louise Reysenbach Portland State University, USA
Frank Robb University of Maryland, USA
Christa Schleper University of Vienna, Austria
Xiao Xiang Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China