INVITED SPEAKERS
| Marco Anderluh | University of Ljubljana | Slovenia |
| Ana Arda | CSIC-University of Seville | Spain |
| Zachary Armstrong | Leiden University | Netherslands |
| Daniel Bojar | University of Gothenburg | Sweden |
| Anikó Borbás | University of Debrecen | Hungary |
| Tatiana Budtova | Ecole Nationale Supérieure | France |
| Alex Demchenko | School of Science and Engineering | USA |
| Elisa Fadda | University of Southampton | UK |
| Antony Fairbanks | University of Canterbury | New Zealand |
| Marco Guerrini | Institute Ronzoni | Italy |
| Zbigniew Kaczynski | University of Gdańsk | Poland |
| Suvarn S. Kulkarni | Indian Institute of Technology | India |
| Jer-Lai Kuo | Academia Sinica | Taiwan |
| Cristina Nativi | University of Florence | Italy |
| Francesco Nicotra | University of Milano-Bicocca | Italy |
| Nikolaj Nifantiev | Russian Academy of Sciences | Russia |
| Zuzana Pakanová | Slovak Academy of Sciences | Slovakia |
| Serge Perez | Centre de Recherches sur les Macromolécules Végétales | France |
| Amelia Rauter | University de Lisboa | Portugal |
| Sergey Samsonov | University of Gdansk | Poland |
| Feng Shao | National Institute of Biological Sciences | China |
| Hiroaki Tateno | National Inst. of Adv. Industrial Science and Technology | Japan |
| Bruce Turnbull | University of Leeds | UK |
| Paula Videira | University of Lisbon | Portugal |
| David Vocadlo | Simon Fraser University | Canada |
| Ed Yates | University of Liverpool | UK |
