- Silvia Acinas (Institute of Marine Sciences/CSIC, Spain)
- Albert Barberan (University of Arizona, USA)
- Pier Luigi Buttigieg (Alfred-Wegener Institute, Germany)
- Emilio O. Casamayor (CEAB-CSIC, Spain)
- Tom O. Delmont (Genoscope, France)
- Carlos M. Duarte (RSRC/CBRC, Saudi Arabia)
- A. Murat Eren (University of Chicago, USA)
- Antonio Fernandez-Guerra (GLOBE Institute, Denmark)
- Rob Finn (EBI, UK)
- Frank Oliver Gloeckner (Alfred-Wegener Institute, Germanu)
- Alex Mitchell (EBI, UK)
- Pablo Sanchez (Institute of Marine Sciences/CSIC, Spain)
- Matthew Schechter (University of Chicago, USA)
- Kimmo Siren (GLOBE Institute, Denmark)
- Martin Steinegger (Seoul National University, South Korea)
- Chiara Vanni (Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany)