| Michael Adams | 
          University of Georgia, USA | 
        
        
          | Stephen D. Bell | 
          Indiana University, USA | 
        
        
          | Nils-Kåre Birkeland | 
          University of Bergen, Norway | 
        
        
          | Isaac Cann | 
          University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA | 
        
        
          | Donald Cowan | 
          University of Pretoria, South Africa | 
        
        
          | Yan Feng | 
          Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China | 
        
        
          | Didier Flament | 
          Ifremer, France | 
        
        
          | Patrick Forterre | 
          Institut Pasteur, France | 
        
        
          | Andrew F. Gardnar | 
          New England Biolabs, USA | 
        
        
          | Hisashi Hemmi | 
          Nagoya University, Japan | 
        
        
          | Li Huang | 
          Chinese Academy of Sciences, China | 
        
        
          | William Inskeep | 
          Montana State University, USA | 
        
        
          | Sung Gyun Kang | 
          Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Korea | 
        
        
          | Robert Kelly | 
          North Carolina State University, USA | 
        
        
          | Zvi Kelman | 
          National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA | 
        
        
          | Mart Krupovic | 
          Institut Pasteur, France | 
        
        
          | Ilya Kublanov | 
          Winogradsky Institute Of Microbiology, Russia | 
        
        
          | Jennifer Littlechild | 
          University of Exeter, UK | 
        
        
          | Kira Makarova | 
          National Institutes of Health, USA | 
        
        
          | William F. Martin | 
          Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany | 
        
        
          | Tomohiro Mochizuki | 
          Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan | 
        
        
          | Hannu Myllykallio | 
          Ecole Polytechnique, France | 
        
        
          | Makoto Nishiyama | 
          University of Tokyo, Japan | 
        
        
          | Eveline Peeters | 
          University of Brussels, Belgium | 
        
        
          | Martina Preiner | 
          Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany | 
        
        
          | Frank Robb | 
          University of Maryland, USA | 
        
        
          | Christa Schleper | 
          University of Vienna, Austria | 
        
        
          | Peter Schönheit | 
          Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Germany | 
        
        
          | Qunxin She | 
          University of Copenhagen, Denmark | 
        
        
          | Yulong Shen | 
          Shandong University, China | 
        
        
          | Andrea Strazzulli | 
          University of Naples, Italy | 
        
        
          | Ken Takai | 
          Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan | 
        
        
          | Michael Terns | 
          University of Georgia, USA | 
        
        
          | Mary Voytek | 
          NASA Headquarters, USA/Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan | 
        
        
          | Finn Werner | 
          University College London, UK | 
        
        
          | Rachel Whitaker | 
          University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA | 
        
        
          | Xiao Xiang | 
          Shanghai Jiaotong University, China | 
        
        
          | Masahiro Yamamoto | 
          Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan |