Kjersti M Aagaard Professor & Vice Chair of Research, Baylor College of Medicine, USA

Hervé Affagard President, Alliance Promotion Microbiote, France

Ami Bhatt Associate Professor, Medicine (Hematology) and of Genetics, Stanford University, USA

Debby Bogaert Professor, Centre for Inflammation Research, The University of Edinburgh, UK

Miquel Bonachera CEO and co-founder, AB-Biotics, Spain

Peer Bork Director, EMBL-Heidelberg, Germany

Claire Derlot Head of Programs for LBP Development & Manufacturing, Biose Industrie, France

Stanislav Dusko Ehrlich Professor, University College London, UK

Francisco Guarner Senior Researcher, Vall d’Hebron Research Institute, Spain

Chun-Jun Guo Assistant Professor, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, USA

Kenya Honda Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Keio University School of Medicine, Japan

Guido Hooiveld Assistant Professor, Wageningen University, The Netherlands

Masahito Hosokawa Associate Professor, Waseda University, Japan

Iliyan D Iliev Associate Professor, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, USA

Marco Jost Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School, USA

Takanori Kanai Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, Japan

Purna Kashyap Professor, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, USA

Yun-Gi Kim Professor, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Keio University, Japan

Rob Knight Director and Professor, Center for Microbiome Innovation, University of California San Diego, USA

Takahiro Matsuki Manager, Yakult Central Institute for Microbiological Research, Japan

Sarkis K Mazmanian Professor Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, USA

Hirokuni Miyamoto Guest Professor, Graduate School of Horticulture, Chiba University, & CTO, Sermas Co. Ltd., Japan

Siew C Ng Professor, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Keiji Nishida Professor, Engineering Biology Research Center, Kobe University, Japan

Suguru Nishijima Postdoctoral fellow, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Germany

Liam O'Mahony Professor, APC Microbiome Ireland, University College Cork, Ireland

Toshitaka Odamaki Section Head, Morinaga Milk Industry Co. LTD., Japan

Hiroshi Ohno Team Leader, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Japan

Naoko Ohtani Professor, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan

Miriam Nozomi Ojima Postdoctoral fellow, Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Japan

Ryo Okumura Representative Director and CEO, Bio Palette Co., Ltd., Japan

Bernat Olle Chief Executive Officer, Vedanta Biosciences Inc., USA

Noah W Palm Associate Professor of Immunobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, USA

Alena Pribyl Senior Scientist and Research Officer, Microba, Australia

Jeroen Raes Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Rega Institute, VIB-KU Leuven, Belgium

Philippe Sansonetti Professor, Institut Pasteur & Collège de France, France

Eran Segal Professor, Department of Computer Science and Applied Math, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Kengo Shimomura Sales promotion group leader, TechnoSuruga Laboratory Co.,Ltd., Japan

Reiko Shinkura Professor, Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Michael Snyder Professor, Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA

Philip Strandwitz Founder and CEO, Holobiome, USA

Kiyoshi Takeda Professor, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Japan

Jun Terauchi Steering Comittee Chair, Japan Microbiome Consortium, Japan

Peter J. Turnbaugh Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of California San Francisco, USA

Jeremy Wilkinson Global Marketing Specialist - Microbiome and Metagenomics, Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc., USA

Takashi Yamamura Director, Department of Immunology, National Institute of Neuroscience, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Japan

Yukihiro Yokoyama Professor, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan

Liping Zhao Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China & Rutgers University, USA

Alexandra Zhernakova Professor, University Medical Centre Groningen, the Netherlands

Kjersti M Aagaard Professor & Vice Chair of Research, Baylor College of Medicine, USA

Masayuki Amagai Pofessor, Keio University / RIKEN, Japan

Ami Bhatt Associate Professor, Stanford University, USA

Mindy Engevik Assistant Professor, Medical University of South Carolina, USA

Masahira Hattori Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo/Senior Researcher, RIKEN & Waseda University, Japan

Jihyun F. Kim Professor, Yonsei University, Republic of Korea

Yun-Gi Kim Professor, Keio University, Japan

GwangPyo Ko Professor, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea

Almagul Kushugulova Leading Researcher, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan

Yumi Matsuoka-Nakamura Associate Professor, Osaka University, Japan

Mark Morrison Professor, The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Australia

Mercedeh Movassagh Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, USA

Eran Segal Professor, Department of Computer Science and Applied Math, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Nakako Shibagaki Manager, Shiseido Co., Ltd., Japan

Reiko Shinkura Professor, Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Tulika P. Srivastava Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, India

Lena Takaysu Assistant Professor, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Kiyoshi Takeda Professor, Osaka University, Japan

Takuji Yamada Associate Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Takashi Yamamura Director, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Japan

Alexandra Zhernakova Professor, University Medical Centre Groningen, the Netherlands