- 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)