Ambassadors

ISME has nominated prominent microbial ecologists to serve as ambassadors of ISME in order to promote national and regional activities in Microbial Ecology. Their activities include: promoting ISME and coordinating ISME activities with the relevant national societies; promoting membership of ISME and initiating of specific workshops on selected topics in Microbial Ecology.

	Argentina Leonardo Erijman erijman@dna.uba.ar
	Australia Andrew j Holmes A.Holmes@mmb.usyd.edu.au
	Austria Martin W. Hahn martin.hahn@oeaw.ac.at
	Brazil Leda Cristina Mendonca-Hagler leda@mls.com.br
	Canada Richard Villemur Richard.Villemur@iaf.inrs.ca Josh D. Neufeld jneufeld@uwaterloo.ca
	Chile Victor Ariel Gallardo vagallar@udec.cl
	China Shixue Yin yinshixue@yzcn.net Min Yang yangmin@rcees.ac.cn
	Denmark Niels Peter Revsbech revsbech@biology.au.dk
	Finland Christina Lyra Christina.Lyra@Helsinki.Fi
	France Pierre Caumette pierre.caumette@univ-pau.fr
	Germany Meinhard Simon m.simon@icbm.de Jörg Overmann j.overmann@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
	Hong Kong Ji-Dong Gu jdgu@hkucc.hku.hk
	Iceland Bjarnheieur Gudmundsdottir bjarngud@rhi.hi.is
	Indonesia Iswandi Anas aiswandi@indo.net.id
	India Nagappa Ramaiah ramaiah@nio.org
	Ireland Fergal O'Gara f.ogara@ucc.ie
	Israel Shimshon Belkin shimshon@vms.huji.ac.il
	Italy Marco Bazzicalupo marcobazzi@dbag.unifi.it
	Japan Mitsuru Eguchi eguchi@@nara.kindai.ac.jp Kenji Kato skkato@ipc.shizuoka.ac.jp
	Malaysia Nazalan Najimudin nazalan@usm.my
	Mexico Esperanza Martinez-Romero emartine@cifn.unam.mx
	The Netherlands Hauke Smidt Hauke.Smidt@wur.nl
	New Zealand Simon Swift s.swift@auckland.ac.nz Susan Turner s.turner@auckland.ac.nz
	Norway Vigdis Torsvik vigdis.torsvik@bio.uib.no
	Phillipines Ernelea Cao director@nsri.upd.edu.ph
	Russia Elisaveta Bonch-Osmolovskaya elizaveta.bo@gmail.com
	Singapore Jianzhong He esehj@nus.edu.sg Hai-Bao Zhang haibao@imcb.a-star.edu.sg
	Slovenia Nina Gunde-Cimerman cimerman@bf.uni-lj.si
	South Africa Thomas E. Cloete tecloete@postino.up.ac.za Don A. Cowan dcowan@uwc.ac.za Douglas E. Rawlings der@sun.ac.za
	South Korea Kyung-Sook Whang kswhang@mokwon.ac.kr
	Spain Carlos Pedros-Alio cpedros@cmima.csic.es
	Sweden Karsten Pedersen karsten.pedersen@gmm.gu.se
	Switzerland Thomas Egli egli@eawag.ch
	Taiwan Shiu-Mei Liu smliu@mail.ntou.edu.tw
	Thailand Prakitsin Sihanonth prakitsin.s@chula.ac.th
	United Kingdom Ian Head i.m.head@newcastle.ac.uk
	USA Slava Epstein s.epstein@neu.edu Stephen J. Giovannoni Steve.Giovannoni@orst.edu Jizhong Zhou zhouj@ornl.gov
	Vietnam Chu Van Thuoc thuoccv@imer.ac.vn