Chair

Ivan Berg, University of Münster, Germany, ivan.berg@uni-muenster.de

International Organizing Committee

Michael W.W. Adams, University of Georgia, USA, adamsm@uga.edu
Haruyuki Atomi, Kyoto University, Japan, atomi@sbchem.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Nils- Kåre Birkeland, University of Bergen, Norway, Nils.Birkeland@uib.no
Jenny Blamey, Fundación Científica y Cultural Biociencia, Chile, jblamey@bioscience.cl
Elizaveta Bonch-Osmolovskaya, Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology, Russia, elizaveta.bo@gmail.com
Don Cowan, University of Pretoria, South Africa, don.cowan@up.ac.za
Olga Golyshina, University of Bangor, UK, o.golyshina@bangor.ac.uk
Yoshizumi Ishino, Kyushu University, Japan, ishino@agr.kyushu-u.ac.jp
Mohamed Jebbar, University of Brest, France, mohamed.jebbar@univ-brest.fr
Sung Gyun Kang, Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Korea, sgkang@kiost.ac.kr
Jennifer Littlechild, University of Exeter, UK, J.A.Littlechild@exeter.ac.uk
Marco Moracci, University of Naples Federico II, Italy, marco.moracci@unina.it
Volker Müller, University of Frankfurt, Germany, vmueller@bio.uni-frankfurt.de
Eveline Peeters, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, Eveline.Peeters@vub.be
Anna-Louise Reysenbach, Portland State University, USA, bwar@pdx.edu
Frank Robb, University of Maryland, USA, frobb@som.umaryland.edu
Christa Schleper, University of Vienna, Austria, christa.schleper@univie.ac.at
Xiao Xiang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, zjxiao2018@sjtu.edu.cn

Local Organizing Committee

Sonja-Verena Albers, University of Freiburg, sonja.albers@biologie.uni-freiburg.de
Garabed Antranikian, Hamburg University of Technology, antranikian@tuhh.de
Beate Averhoff, University of Frankfurt,  averhoff@bio.uni-frankfurt.de
Ivan Berg, University of Münster, ivan.berg@uni-muenster.de
Mirko Basen, University of Rostock, mirko.basen@uni-rostock.de
Dina Grohmann, University of Regensburg, Dina.Grohmann@biologie.uni-regensburg.de
Volker Müller, University of Frankfurt, vmueller@bio.uni-frankfurt.de
Bettina Siebers, University of Duisburg-Essen, bettina.siebers@uni-due.de