• Impact of microorganisms on the chemical transfer at surfaces
• Paleoceanography and plankton evolution
• Life in extreme environments, astrobiology
• Biogeochemical cycles of COSP, marine geology
• Early animal evolution and ecology of the Cambrian explosion

Jörg Bollmann
Jean-Bernard Caron
Grant Ferris
Sarah Finkelstein
Jochen Halfar
Barb Sherwood Lollar
Ulrich Wortmann
Martin Head *

*status only