| Drucker V.V. | Chairman, Dr. Sc. (Biology), prof., Limnological Institute Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk, Russia |
| Ivshina I.B. | Deputy Chairman, Academician of the RAS, prof., Institute of Ecology and Genetics of Microorganisms the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Perm, Russia |
| Pimenov N.V. | Deputy Chairman, Dr. Sc. (Biology), prof., Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology RAS, Federal Research Centre “Fundamentals of Biotechnology” of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia |
| Belykh O.I. | Cand. Sc. (Biology), ass. prof., Limnological Institute Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk, Russia |
| Jadambaa N. | Dr. Sc. (Biology), prof., Institute of Biology, Mongolian Academia of Sciences, Ulan Bator, Mongolia |
| Zemskaya T.I. | Dr. Sc. (Biology), Limnological Institute Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk, Russia |
| Kondratyeva L.M. | Dr. Sc. (Biology), prof., Institute for Water and Ecological Problems, Far Eastern Region, Russian Academy of Sciences, Khabarovsk, Russia |
| Letarov A.V. | Dr. Sc. (Biology), prof., Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology RAS, Federal Research Centre “Fundamentals of Biotechnology” of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia |
| Markova Y.A. | Dr. Sc. (Biology), Siberian Institute of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk, Russia |
| Rodriguez-Valera F. | Prof., Evolutionary Genomics Group, Departamento de Producción Vegetal y Microbiología, Universidad Miguel Hernández, San Juande Alicante, Alicante, Spain |
| Simoliunas E. | Dr. Sc., Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Institute of Biochemistry, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania |
| Sugiyama M. | Prof., Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan |
| Pavlova O.N. | Conference secretary, Cand. Sc. (Biology), Limnological Institute Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk, Russia |
