Prof. Dr. Dieter Jahn	Institute of Microbiology, TU Braunschweig, Germany
PD Dr. agr. Cornelia C. Metges	Leibniz Institute for Animal Biology, Dummerstorf, Germany
PD Dr. rer. nat. habil. Björn Kuhla	Leibniz Institute for Animal Biology, Dummerstorf, Germany
PD Dr. rer. nat. Andreas Höflich	Leibniz Institute for Animal Biology, Dummerstorf, Germany
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c.Thomas C. Mettenleiter	Institute of Molecular Virology and Cell Biology, FLI Riems, Germany
Prof. Dr. Laure Weisskopf	Department of Biology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Dr. Paolina Garbeva	Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, Netherlands
PhD. Petr Baldrian	Institute of Microbiology, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
Prof. Dr. Gabriele Berg	Institute of Environmental Biotechnology, TU Graz, Austria
Prof. Dr. Trinad Chakraborty	Institute for Medical Microbiology, University Hospital Giessen, Germany
Prof. Dr. Cristina Dantas Vanetti	Institute for Food Microbiology, Federal University of Vicosa, Brazil
Prof. Dr. Leo Eberl	Department for Microbiology, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. Michael Givskov	Costerton Biofilm Center, University Copenhagen, Denmark
Prof. Dr. Martin Grube	Institute of Plant Sciences, Karl-Franzens-University Graz, Austria
Prof. Dr. Ludwig Hölzle	Institute for Environmental and Animal Hygiene, University Hohenheim, Germany
Prof. Dr. Soeren Molin	Department of Systems Biology, DTU Copenhagen, Denmark
Prof. Dr. Enrica Pessione	Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Torino, Italy
Dr. Stefan Spring	DSMZ, Braunschweig, Germany
Prof. Dr. Tim Tolker-Nielsen	Costerton Biofilm Center, University Copenhagen, Denmark
Prof. Dr. Sophie Zechmeister	Institute of Soil Research, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Austria