Congress Chair

Helena Santos (ITQB, Oeiras)

Local Organizing Committee

Nuno Borges (ITQB, Oeiras)
Pedro Lamosa (ITQB, Oeiras)
Luís Gafeira (ITQB, Oeiras)
Tiago Pais (ITQB, Oeiras)
Manuela Pereira (ITQB, Oeiras)
Miguel Teixeira (ITQB, Oeiras)
Milton S. da Costa (Coimbra)
Paula Aguiar (OMIC, CIBIO - Açores) 
 

International Organizing Committee

Garo Antranikian, Technical University Hamburg, Germany
Koki Horikoshi, JAMSTEC, Japan
John Reeve, Ohio State University, USA
Mosè Rossi, University of Naples, Italy
Helena Santos, New University of Lisbon, Portugal 

Scientific Advisory Committee

Michael Adams, University of Georgia, USA
Garabed Antranikian, Technical University Hamburg, Germany
Haruyuki Atomi, University of Kyoto, Japan
José Berenguer, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Douglas Bartlett, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA
Simonetta Bartolucci, University Federico II, Naples, Italy
Elizaveta Bonch-Osmolovskaya, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Stephanie G. Burton, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Rick Cavicchioli, University of New South Wales, Australia
Milton da Costa, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Douglas Clark, University of California Berkeley, USA
Don Cowan, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
Michael Danson, University of Bath, UK
Constantin Drainas, University of Ioannina, Greece
Arnold Driessen, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Patrick Forterre, Pasteur Institute, France
Richard Haser, CNRS and Universite Claude Bernard Lyon, France
Koki Horikoshi, JAMSTEC, Japan
Li Huang, Academy of Sciences, China
Yoshizumi Ishino, Kyushu University, Japan
Chiaki Kato, JAMSTEC, Japan
Robert Kelly, North Carolina State University, USA  
Rudolf Ladenstein, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Wolfgang Liebl, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Volker Müller, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany
John van der Oost, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Aharon Oren, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Tairo Oshima, Institute of Environmental Microbiology, Japan
Daniel Prieur, University of Western Brittany, France
Joel Querellou, IFREMER, France
Fred A. Rainey, Louisiana State University, USA
John Reeve, Ohio State University, USA
Frank Robb, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, USA
Mosè Rossi, University of Naples, Italy
Francisco Rodriguez-Valera, University Miguel Hernandez, Spain
Helena Santos, ITQB, New University of Lisbon, Portugal (Congress Chair)
Peter Schönheit, University of Kiel, Germany
Miguel Teixeira, ITQB, New University of Lisbon, Portugal 
Michael Thomm, University of Regensburg, Germany
Antonio Ventosa, University of Seville, Spain