Plenary Speakers (Last name in alphabetical order)


  • Jill Banfield
    Departments of Earth and Planetary Science and Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, United States
    Professor
  • Patrick Foterre
    Department of Microbiology, Pasteur Institute, France
    Professor
  • Brian Hedlund
    School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, United States
    Professor
  • Nianzhi Jiao
    State Key Laboratory of Marine Environment Science, Xiamen University, China
    Professor
  • Jian Lin
    Advanced Institute for Ocean Research and Department of Ocean Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
    Professor
  • Ann Pearson
    Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, United States
    Professor
  • Anna-Louise Reysenbach
    Department of Biology, Portland State University, United States
    Professor
  • Francisco Rodriguez-Valera
    Department of Vegetal Production and Microbiology, Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche Spain, Spain
    Professor
  • Christa Schleper
    Department of Functional and Evolutionary Biology, University of Vienna, Austria
    Professor
  • Laura Villanueva
    Department of Marine Microbiology and Biogeochemistry, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Netherlands
    Professor
  • Fengping Wang
    School of Oceanography, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
    Professor
  • Yige Zhang
    Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
    Professor
  • Maoyan Zhu
    Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
    Professor
  • Topic Session Speakers 


    Luis E Valentin Alvarado; University of California, Berkeley    

    Eleanor C. Arrington; University of California, Santa Barbara    

    Haruyuki Atomi; Kyoto University    

    Rui Bao; Ocean University of China    

    Paul Blair; Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute    

    Andy Garcia; Stanford University    

    Shengwei Hou; Southern University of Science and Technology    

    Yoshizumi Ishino; Kyushu University    

    Anthony Kohtz; Montana State University    

    Feng Ju; Westlake University   

    James Larson; Montana State University    

    Wenjun Li; Sun Yat-sen University    

    Yan Liao; University of Technology Sydney    

    Ronnakrit Rattanasriampaipong; University of Arizona    

    Thomas Santangelo; Colorado State University    

    Tong Si; Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences    

    Jianchang Tao; Southern University of Science and Technology    

    Rodney Tollerson; Auburn University     

    Jose de la Torre; San Francisco State University    

    Yinzhao Wang; Shanghai Jiao Tong University    

    Chengyuan Wang; Shanghai Institute of Immunology and Infection, Chinese Academy of   Sciences    

    Gunter Wegener; Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology    

    Fabai Wu; Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo    

    Wei Xie; Sun Yat-sen University    

    Xiaoyun Yang; Southern University of Science and Technology    

    Cuijing Zhang; Shenzhen University    

    Yue Zheng; Xiamen University