Chairs
Constantinos Vorgias National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Biology, Athens, Greece
Marco Moracci, University of Naples 'Federico II', Naples, Italy
Haruyuki Atomi, Kyoto University, Japan
International Organizing Committee
Garabed Antranikian, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
Michael W. W. Adams, University of Georgia, USA
Haruyuki Atomi, Kyoto University, Japan
Don Cowan, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Marco Moracci, University of Naples 'Federico II', Naples, Italy
Helena Santos, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Antonio Ventosa, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
International Advisory Board
Aharon Oren, The Hebrew University, Israel
Aikaterini Pappa, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Anwar Sunna, Macquarie University, Australia
Arnold Driessen, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Beate Averhoff Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany
Bettina Siebers, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Biswarup Mukhopadhyay, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA
Christa Schleper, University of Vienna, Austria
Costantino Vetriani, Rutgers University, USA
David Prangishvili, Institut Pasteur, France
Donato Giovannelli, University of Naples "Federico II", Naples, Italy
Dong-Woo Lee, Yonsei University, Korea
Elizaveta Bonch-Osmolovskaya, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Eugene V. Koonin, National Center for Biotechnology Information, USA
Fengping Wang, Shanghai JiaoTong University, China
Frank Robb, University of Maryland, USA
Hannu Myllykallio, Ecole Polytechnique, France
Hovik Panosyan. Yerevan State University, Armenia
Isaac Cann, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Jennifer Littlechild, University of Exeter, UK
Jenny Blamey, Foundacion Cientifica y Cultural Biociencia, Chile
John van der Oost, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
José Carlos Berenguer, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Julie Maupin-Furlow, University of Florida, USA
Karen Karen Trchounian Yerevan State University, Armenia
Ken Stedman, Portland State University, USA
Li Huang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Luisa Cruz, MicroHarvest, Germany
Malcolm White, University of St. Andrews, UK
Mohamed Jebbar, Université Bretagne Occidentale Affectation de recherché, France
Nikos Kyprides, DOE Joint Genome Institute, USA
Nils-Kåre Birkeland, University of Bergen, Norway
Ondrej Uhlik University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, CZ
Peter Schönheit, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany
Qunxin She, Shandong University, China
Reinhard Sterner, University of Regensburg, Germany
Robert Kelly, North Carolina State University, USA
Scott A Walper. United States Naval Research Laboratory, USA
Sonja-Verena Albers, University of Freiburg, Germany
Sung Gyun Kang, KIOST, Korea
Tairo Oshima, University of Tokyo, Japan
Tatsuo Kurihara, Kyoto University, Japan
Thorsten Allers, University of Nottingham, UK
Volker Müller, Goethe University, Germany
Wolfgang Liebl, Technical University Munich, Germany
Yoshizumi Ishino, Kyushu University, Japan
Zvi Kelman, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
