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Christine Cocquyt, National Botanic Garden of Belgium, Meise, Belgium (African diatoms)
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Birgit Gemeinholzer, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany (Diatom Barcoding)
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Gernot Glöckner, University of Cologne, Germany; Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, IGB Berlin, Germany (Diatom Genomics)
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Ulf Karsten, Universität Rostock, Germany (Arctic and Antarctic diatoms)
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Maxim Kulikovsky, Evgeniy Gusev, Russian Academy of Science, Borok, Russia (Baikal diatoms and from Vietnam)
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Shigeki Mayama, Tokyo Gakugei University, Japan (Education on diatoms)
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Martin Pfannkuchen, Institut Ruđer Bošković Giordano, Rovinj, Hrvatska (Diatom Barcoding)
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Oscar Romero, Universidad de Granada, Spain (Cocconeis)
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Weliton da Silva, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Cymbellales)
