• Patrick Chain, Los Alamos National Library, USA
• Maria Chuvochina, University of Queensland, Australia
• Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh, DOE Joint Genome Institute, USA
• Brian Hedlund, University of Nevada, USA
• Phil Hugenholtz, University of Queensland, Australia
• Kostas Konstantinidis, Georgia Tech, USA
• Alison Murray, Desert Research Institute, USA
• Marike Palmer, University of Nevada, USA
• Donovan Parks, University of Queensland, Australia
• Alexander Probst, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
• Anna-Louise Reysenbach, Portland State University, USA
• Luis Miquel Rodriguez Rojas, University of Innsbruck, Austria
• Ramon Rossello-Mora, University of the Balearic Islands, Spain
• Iain Sutcliffe, University of Northumbria, UK
• Fanus Venter, University of Pretoria, South Africa
• William Whitman, University of Georgia, USA

Funding provided by the US National Science Foundation (DEB 1841658)