Division of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, USA
Alison E. Murray
Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
John Freudenstein
Evolutionary Biology of the Microbial Cell, Department of Microbiology, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Simonetta Gribaldo
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Center for Biofilm Engineering, and Thermal Biology Institute, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA
Roland Hatzenpichler
Australian Centre for Ecogenomics, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Philip Hugenholtz & Donovan H. Parks
Department of Applied Microbiology, Justus-Liebig-Universität, Giessen, Germany
Peter Kämpfer
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, USA
Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA
Christopher E. Lane
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA
R. Thane Papke
Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies, CSIC-UIB, Illes Balears, Spain
Ramon Rossello-Mora
School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
Matthew B. Stott
Department of Applied Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Iain C. Sutcliffe
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
J. Cameron Thrash
Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
Stephanus N. Venter
Department of Microbiology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
William B. Whitman
Department of Marine Biology and Oceanography, Institut de Ciènces del Mar, CSIC, Barcelona, Spain
Silvia G. Acinas
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
Rudolf I. Amann
Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
Karthik Anantharaman
CEA Technological Innovations for Detection and Diagnosis Laboratory, CEA Pharmacology and Immunoanalysis Unit (SPI), Bagnols-sur-Cèze, France
Jean Armengaud
Department of Marine Science, Marine Science Institute, University of Texas at Austin, Port Aransas, TX, USA
Brett J. Baker
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Roman A. Barco
Molecular Biotechnology, Department of Biosciences and Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences (BMLS), Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Helge B. Bode
Senckenberg Society for Nature Research, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Helge B. Bode
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA
Eric S. Boyd, Daniel R. Colman & Frank J. Stewart
University of the West of England, Bristol, England
Carrie L. Brady
Department of Environmental Science, University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ, USA
Paul Carini
Bioscience Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
Patrick S. G. Chain
Microbiology Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
Kristen M. DeAngelis
National Museum of Natural Sciences, CSIC, Madrid, Spain
Maria Asuncion de los Rios
Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico
Paulina Estrada-de los Santos
National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, Crop Bioprotection Research Unit, Peoria, IL, USA
Christopher A. Dunlap
Department of Evolution and Ecology, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
Jonathan A. Eisen
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, ME, USA
David Emerson
Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands
Thijs J. G. Ettema
LS2N, Université de Nantes, CNRS, Nantes, France
Damien Eveillard
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Peter R. Girguis
GEOMAR-Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, RD3-Marine Ecology, RU-Marine Microbiology, Kiel, Germany
Ute Hentschel
Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
James T. Hollibaugh
Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
Laura A. Hug
Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA
William P. Inskeep
School of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Elena P. Ivanova
School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Hans-Peter Klenk
School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
Wen-Jun Li
Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA
Karen G. Lloyd
Departments of Microbiology and Civil & Environmental Engineering, Center for Environmental Biotechnology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA
Frank E. Löffler
Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
Frank E. Löffler
Centre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics, Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
Thulani P. Makhalanyane
Division of Hydrologic Sciences, Desert Research Institute, Las Vegas, NV, USA
Duane P. Moser
Research Center for Bioscience and Nanoscience (CeBN), Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, Japan
Takuro Nunoura
School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, USA
Marike Palmer & Brian P. Hedlund
Astrobiology Center (CSIC-INTA), Madrid, Spain
Victor Parro
National Biotechnology Center, Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain
Carlos Pedrós-Alió
Department of Chemistry, Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
Alexander J. Probst
Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Research Group, Institute for Environment and Natural Resources, Zürich University for Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Wädenswil, Switzerland
Theo H. M. Smits
Departments of Microbiology and Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA
Andrew D. Steen
Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
Emma T. Steenkamp
Department for Marine Microbiology and Biogeochemistry, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Den Burg, the Netherlands
Anja Spang
Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Anja Spang
Center for Microbial Ecology, Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
James M. Tiedje
Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
Peter Vandamme
Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Michael Wagner
International Center for Deep Life Investigation, School of Oceanography and School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
Feng-Ping Wang
Ribocon GmbH, Bremen, Germany
Pablo Yarza
Biology Department, Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA
Anna-Louise Reysenbach
