- Prof. Guido van den Ackerveken, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
- Prof. John Klironomos, University of British Columbia, Canada
- Dr Antonis Chatzinotas, UFZ-Leipzig, Germany
- Prof. Spyros Pavlostathis, Georgia Tech, USA
- Prof. Cheryl Kerfeld, Michigan State University, USA
- Dr Panos Sarris, IMBB-FORTH, Greece
- Prof. Shihui Yang, Hubei University, China
- Prof. Konstantinos Koutsoumanis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
- Prof. Antonio Fernandez-Guerra, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany
- Dr Nassos Typas, EMBL
- Dr Ilias Lagkouvardos, Technische Universität München