Keynote speakers
Michael W.W. Adams (University of Georgia, USA)
Sonja-Verena Albers (University of Freiburg, Germany)
Harry Atomi (University of Kyoto, Japan)
Jenny Blamey (Fundación Científica y Cultural Biociencia, Chile)
Olga Golyshina (University of Bangor, UK)
Dina Grohmann (University of Regensburg, Germany)
Brian Hedlund (University of Nevada, USA)
Li Huang (Institute of Microbiology CAS, Beijing, China)
Dagmar Klostermeier (University of Münster, Germany)
Eugene Koonin (NCBI, USA)
Mart Krupovic (Institute Pasteur, France)
Jennifer Littlechild (University of Exeter, UK)
William Martin (University of Düsseldorf, Germany)
Marco Moracci (University of Naples Federico II, Italy)
Volker Müller (University of Frankfurt, Germany)
Takuro Nunoura (JAMSTEC, Japan)
Eveline Peeters (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
Anna-Louise Reysenbach (Portland State University, USA)
Simon Rittmann (University of Vienna)
Tessa Quax (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
Thomas Santangelo (Colorado State University, USA)
Bettina Siebers (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Michael Terns (University of Georgia, USA)