International Advisory Board
| Sonja-Verena Albers | University of Freiburg, Germany |
| Thorsten Allers | University of Nottingham, UK |
| Douglas Bartlett | Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA |
| José Carlos Berenguer | Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain |
| Nils-Kåre Birkeland | University of Bergen, Norway |
| Jenny Blamey | Foundacion Cientifica y Cultural Biociencia, Chile |
| Elizaveta Bonch-Osmolovskaya | Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia |
| Isaac Cann | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA |
| Milton da Costa | University of Coimbra, Portugal |
| Arnold Driessen | University of Groningen, The Netherlands |
| Patrick Forterre | Institut Pasteur, France |
| Donato Giovannelli | Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan Institute of Marine Sciences, CNR, Ancona, Italy |
| Mohamed Jebbar | Université Bretagne Occidentale Affectation de recherché, France |
| Robert Kelly | North Carolina State University, USA |
| Zvi Kelman | National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA |
| Eugene V. Koonin | National Center for Biotechnology Information, USA |
| Tatsuo Kurihara | Kyoto University, Japan |
| Yoshizumi Ishino | Kyushu University, Japan |
| Jennifer Littlechild | University of Exeter, UK |
| Dominique Madern | CNRS, France |
| Julie Maupin-Furlow | University of Florida, USA |
| Biswarup Mukhopadhyay | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA |
| Hannu Myllykallio | Ecole Polytechnique, France |
| Aharon Oren | The Hebrew University, Israel |
| Tairo Oshima | Tokyo University, Japan |
| Xu Peng | University of Copenhagen, Denmark |
| David Prangishvili | Institut Pasteur, France |
| John Reeve | The Ohio State University, USA |
| Frank Robb | University of Maryland, USA |
| Christa Schleper | University of Vienna, Austria |
| Peter Schönheit | Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany |
| Qunxin She | University of Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Bettina Siebers | University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany |
| Ken Stedman | Portland State University, USA |
| Reinhard Sterner | University of Regensburg, Germany |
| John van der Oost | Wageningen University, The Netherlands |
| Costantino Vetriani | Rutgers University, USA |
| Malcolm White | University of St. Andrews, UK |