Committees

Board - International Society for Microbial Ecology - ISME
Staffan Kjelleberg - President, Australia
Hilary M. Lappin-Scott - Vice President, UK
Hans van Veen - Secretary / Treasurer, The Netherlands
Yehuda Cohen - Past President, Israel
Michael Wagner - Chair, International Symposium, Austria
Alla Nozhevnikova - Board Member, Russia
David A. Stahl - Board Member, USA
Yuichi Suwa - Board Member, Japan
Bo Barker Jørgensen - Board Member, Germany
Linda Blackall - Board Member, Australia

ISME Executive Committee
Yehuda Cohen, Israel
Staffan Kjelleberg, Australia
Hilary M. Lappin-Scott, UK
Hans van Veen, The Netherlands

ISME 11 Organizing Committee
Staffan Kjelleberg - Congress President, Australia
Yehuda Cohen, Israel
Hilary M. Lappin-Scott, UK
Hans van Veen, The Netherlands
Michael Wagner, Austria

Local Organizing Committee
Michael Wagner, University of Vienna - Chair, ISME-11
Matthias Horn, University of Vienna
Holger Daims, University of Vienna
Robert Mach, Technical University, Vienna
Roland Psenner, University of Innsbruck
Angela Sessitsch, Austrian Research Center, Seibersdorf
Thomas Weisse, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Mondsee  

ISME Society Ambassadors
Leonardo Erijman, Argentina
Andrew J. Holmes, Australia
Martin W. Hahn, Austria
Leda Cristina Mendonca-Hagler, Brazil
Victor Ariel Gallardo, Chile
Liping Zhao, P.R. China
Niels Peter Revsbech, Denmark
Christina Lyra, Finland
Jörg Overmann, Germany
Meinhard Simon, Germany
Bjarnheidur K. Gudmundsdottir, Iceland
Fergal O'Gara, Ireland
Shimshon Belkin, Israel
Marco Bazzicalupo, Italy
Laura Giuliano, Italy
Masao Nasu, Japan
Esperanza Martinez-Romero, Mexico
Susan J. Turner, New Zealand
Vigdis Torsvik, Norway
Hai-Bao Zhang, Singapore
Nina Gunde-Cimerman, Slovenia
Don A. Cowan, South Africa
Jongsik Chun, South Korea
Carlos Pedrós-Alió, Spain
Karsten Pedersen, Sweden
Thomas Egli, Switzerland
George A. Kowalchuk, The Netherlands
Mark J. Bailey, UK
Slava Epstein, USA
Steven J. Giovannoni, USA