Committees

Local Organizing Commitee A. Méndez-Vilas, Formatex Research Center, Badajoz, Spain  (Coordinator) Fátima Penya, Formatex Research Center, Badajoz, Spain (Secretariat) Borja González, Formatex Research Center, Badajoz, Spain (Secretariat) Isaac Corbacho Cuello, University of Extremadura, Spain I. Olivero, University of Extremadura, Spain Luis M. Hernández, University of Extremadura, Spain Manuel Ramírez, University of Extremadura, Spain J. Díaz Álvarez, University of Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain Pilar Cáceres, University of Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain José E. Rebollo, University of Extremadura, Spain J.A. Mesa Gonzalez, Formatex Research Center, Badajoz, Spain D. Zarco Fernández, Formatex Research Center, Badajoz, Spain J. Mesa Gonzalez, Formatex Research Center, Badajoz, Spain A. Agudo Rodríguez, Formatex Research Center, Badajoz, Spain International Scientific Advisory Committee Prof. Jim Germida, Head of the Department of Soil Science, University of Saskatchewan, Canada >>> Prof Christopher Bucke, Department of Biotechnology, Fungal Biotechnology Research GroupUniversity of Westminster, UK >>> Dr. Erko Stackebrandt, DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH, Braunschweig, Germany >>> Dr. Isabel Olivero, Departamento de Microbiologia, Universidad de Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain Prof MSM Jetten, Department of Microbiology, University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands >>> Prof. Tomás González Villa, Instituto de Farmacia Industrial, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain >>> Dr. Miguel Vicente, Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia, Madrid, Spain >>> Prof. Peter Halling, Department of Chemistry, University of Strathclyde, Scotland, UK >>> Dr. Luis M. Hernández, Departamento de Microbiologia, Universidad de Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain Prof. Antonio G. Pisabarro, Dept. de Producción Agraria, Univ. Pública de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain >>> Dr. Gunnar Bratbak, Department of Biology, Microbiology University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway Prof. Amaret Bhumiratana, Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Thailand >>> Dr. Montserrat Mor-Mur, Tecnologia dels Aliments, Facultat de Veterinària, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain Dr. Kirsten Peters, Institute of Pathology, Mainz, Germany >>> Prof. Shimshon Belkin , Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem , Jerusalem, Israel >>> Dr. Alejandro Cifuentes, Department of Food Analysis, Institute of Industrial Fermentations (CSIC), Madrid, Spain >>> Prof. Kurt Haselwandter, Institut fur Mikrobiologie Universitat Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria Prof. Günter Allmaier, Institute of Chemical Technologies and Analysis, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria >>> Dr. Manuel Ramírez, Departamento de Microbiologia, Universidad de Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain Prof. Uwe T. Bornscheuer, Institute of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Dept. of Technical Chemistry & Biotechnology, Greifswald University, Germany >>> Prof. Hilary M. Lappin-Scott, Head of Department of Biological Sciences, University of Exeter, UK >>> Prof. Uldis Viesturs, Director of the Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Latvia >>> Prof. Jan F.M. Van Impe, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Department of Chemical Engineering, BioTeC-Bioprocess Technology and Control, Belgium >>> Prof. /Dr. Isao Koike, Director, Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Nakano, Tokyo, Japan >>> Dr. Jose E. Rebollo, Departamento de Bioquímica, Biología Molecular y Genética, Universidad de Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain Prof. Stanislaw Pietr, Chairman, Department of Agricultural Microbiology, Agricultural University of Wroclaw, Poland Prof. Eulogio J. Bedmar, Microbiología del Suelo y Sistemas Simbióticos, Estacion Experimental del Zaidin, CSIC, Granada, Spain >>> Prof. Martina Havenith, Lehrstuhl fuer physikalische Chemie II, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany >>> Prof. Will Waites, Professor of Food Microbiology, Division of Food Sciences, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Loughborough, UK >>> Dr. Gerda Horneck, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Aerospace Medicine, Radiation Biology Section, Köln, Germany >>> Prof. Peter Bergquist, Director, Biotechnology Research Institute. Emeritus Professor of Biology, Macquarie University, North Ryde, Sydney, Australia >>> Prof. Abu Bakar Salleh , Institue of Bioscience, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang Malaysia >>> Prof. André Ferraz, Departamento de Biotecnologia, Faculdade de Engenharia Química de Lorena, Lorena, SP, Brasil >>> Dr. Hermann J. Heipieper, Department of Bioremediation, UFZ - Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig-Halle, Germany >>> Prof. Clive Edwards, Faculty of Science Director of Postgraduate Studies, Division of Microbiology and Genomics, School of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool, UK Dr. Charles M. Reynolds, Research Scientist - Soil Microbiology, CRREL (US Army Engineer Research Development Center, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory), Hanover, USA >>> Prof. Hauke Harms, UFZ Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Environmental Microbiology, Leipzig, Germany >>> Prof. Dan Dascalu, Member of the Romanian Academy, General Manager of the National Institute for R&D in Microtechnologies (IMT-Bucharest), Romania Prof. Sergei Braun, Dept. Biol. Chemistry, Life Science Institute, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel >>> Dr. Eyal Shimoni, Dept. Biotechnology & Food Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel >>> Prof. Thomas. G. Chasteen, Sam Houston State University, Texas, USA >>> Dr. Carl A. Batt, Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor, Director, Cornell University/Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research Partnership, Co-Director, Nanobiotechnology Center, Project Leader, Alliance for Nanomedical Technologies >>> Dr. Paul J. Campagnola, University of Connecticut Health Center, Center for Biomedical Imaging Technology, Department of Cell Biology, Farmington, USA >>> Dr. Emilia Quesada, Departamento de Microbiología, Universidad de Granada, Spain >>> Prof. Jean-Pierre Dufour, Chairperson and Head of the Department, Department of Food Science, University of Otago, New Zealand >>> Prof. David Catcheside, School of Biological Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia >>> Dr. Pierre Cornelis, Microbial Interactions, Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Interactions, VIB, the Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology, Belgium >>>