BOARD - INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR MICROBIAL ECOLOGY, ISME
Yehuda Cohen, President, Israel
Staffan Kjelleberg, Vice-President, Australia
James M. Tiedje, Past President, USA
Hilary M. Lappin-Scott, Secretary/Treasurer, UK
Riks Laanbroek, Chair, ISME-9, The Netherlands
Ricardo Guerrero, Chair, Publication Board, Spain
Leda Mendosa Hagler, Member, Brazil
Alla Nozhevnikova, Member, Russia
David A. Stahl, Member, USA
Yuichi Suwa, Member, Japan

LOCAL MEXICAN ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Edmundo Calva, President
Gisela E. Boll-Arguello, Vice President
Esperanza Martinez-Romero, Chair, Scientific Committee
Cesar Hernandez-Rodriguez
Hugo Ramirez-Saad
Armando Lemos-Pastrana

ISME AMBASSADORS
Leonardo Erijman, Argentina
Andrew Holmes, Australia
Michael Wagner, Austria
Carlos Riquelme, Chile
Liping Zhao, P.R. China
Kristina Lindstrom, Finland
Pierre Caumette, France
Niels P. Revsbech, Denmark
Meinhard Simon, Germany
Bjarnheidur K. Gudmundsdottir, Iceland
C. Shekhar Nautiyal, India
Fergal O'Gara, Ireland
Aharon Oren, Israel
Marco Bazzicalupo, Italy
Laura Giuliano, Italy
Masao Nasu, Japan
Jongsik Chun, Korea
Sung-Taik Lee, Korea
Esperanza Martinez Romero, Mexico
Simon Swift, New Zealand
Susan J. Turner, New Zealand
Hai-Bao Zhang, Singapore
Nina Gunde-Cimerman, Slovenia
Thomas E. Cloete, South Africa
Don A. Cowan, South Africa
Carlos Pedros Alio, Spain
Karsten Pedersen, Sweden
Thomas Egli, Switzerland
George Kowalchuk, The Netherlands
Ozdem Ang, Turkey
Mark J. Bailey, UK
Slava Epstein, USA
Stephen Giovannoni, USA
Nora Malaver Q, Venezuela