Ana Luiza Muccillo-Baisch, Professor, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Brazil

Andrea Bourdelais, Associate Research Professor, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, USA

Annette Summers Engel, Associate Professor, Louisiana State University, USA

Armando T. Quitain, Assistant Professor, Kumamoto University, Japan

Balakrishnan Prithiviraj, Associate Professor, Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Canada

Bjarne Osterud, Professor, University of Tromso, Norway

Chieh-ming J. Chang, Distinguished Professor, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan

Cleo Choong, Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

D. J. Gilmour, Associate Professor, University of Sheffield, UK

Danny Reible, Chair of Environmental Health Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, USA 

David A. McClellan, Senior Research Scientist, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, USA

Franck Zal, CEO & CSO, HEMARINA SA, France

Halil Berberoglu, Assistant Professor, University of Texas, USA

Hans Steinhart, Professor, University of Hamburg, Germany

Hitoshi Sawada, Professor and Director, Nagoya University, Japan

Imogen Foubert, Professor, K. U. Leuven Campus Kortrijk Laboratory, Belgium

Jenn-Kan Lu, Associate Professor, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan

John J. Lee, Distinguished Professor of Biology, City College of CityUniversity of New York, USA; Research Associate, NationalCenter for Mariculture, Israel

Kazuo Inaba, Director, University of Tsukuba, Japan

Kin-Chung Ho, Dean of School of Science & Technology, The Open University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Klara Stensvag, Professor, University of Tromso, Norway

Kobi M. Sethna, President and CEO, Nereus Pharmaceuticals, Inc., USA

Koji Mikami, Associate Professor, Hokkaido University, Japan

Kyle D. Hoagland, Senior Water Research Analyst, University of Nebraska, USA

Lee-Feng Chien, Assistant Professor, National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan

Lingfeng Huang, Professor, Xiamen University, China 

Mark D. Powell, Professor, Bodo University College, Norway

Mark S. Cooper, Associate Professor, University of Washington, USA

Michel Guichardant, Professor, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon, France

Mohamad Pauzi Zakaria, Associate Professor, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia

Moshe Tom, Head, Biology and Biotechnology Department, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, Israel

Olav Albert Christophersen, Scientist, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway

Peilin Zhou, Professor, University of Strathclyde, UK

Pierre Peyret, Professor, Clermont Université, France

Sabine Matallana-Surget, Research Fellow , Laboratoire d’Océanographie Microbienne, France

Stanley C K Lau, Assistant Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China

Susumu Takio, Professor, Kumamoto University, Japan

Tian Kian Wee, CEO, UTAR Microalgae Sdn Bhd, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia

Trond O. Jorgensen, Professor and Director of MabCent-SFI, University of Tromsø, Norway

Wonho Yih, Professor, Kunsan National University, Korea

Yonghong Liu, Profeeesor, Key Laboratory of Marine Bio-resources Sustainable Utilization/Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica/Research Center for Marine Microbes, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Yoshio Hayashi, Professor, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, Japan 

Yulia I. Gubelit, Researcher, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Local Committee Members
Doris Han, Amy Sun, Kelly Wang, Jingying Mi