15th International Congress on EXTREMOPHILES 2026
13(Sun) - 17(Thu)September 2026
Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
D - 000
Open lecturers
Plenary keynote lecturers
Thematic keynote lecturers
Featured Invited Speakers
Technical Workshop
Featured Invited Speakers
Minkyung Baek

Minkyung Baek

Seoul National University, Republic of Korea

Protein Interaction Prediction and Design Using AI

Mohamed Jebbar

Mohamed Jebbar

Université de Bretagne Occidentale Brest, France

Adaptation of Piezophilic Thermococcales to High Hydrostatic Pressures in Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents

Yong Sun Bahn

Yong Sun Bahn

Yonsei University, Republic of Korea

Sensing the Host: How Fungal Pathogens Integrate CO₂, Heat, and Acidic Ph

Sun-Shin Cha

Sun-Shin Cha

Ewha Womans University, Republic of Korea

Structural Basis of Adaptive Evolution: How a Single Point Mutation Drives Metabolic and Physiological Rewiring in Microbes

Byung-Kwan Cho

Byung-Kwan Cho

KAIST, Republic of Korea

TBD

Roberta Iacono

Roberta Iacono

University of Naples Federico II, Italy

Long-Term Insights into the Microbial Population Dynamics in an Active Volcano Geothermal System

Ji-Hyun F. Kim

Ji-Hyun F. Kim

Yonsei University, Republic of Korea

Novel Antarctic Chemolithotroph Drives Iron Biomineralization

James F. Holden

James F. Holden

University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

TBD

Sung-Keun Rhee

Sung-Keun Rhee

Chungbuk National University, Republic of Korea

Versatility of Extremophilic Methanotrophs Offers Insights into Greenhouse Gas Mitigation

Yong-Keol Shin

Yong-Keol Shin

Enzynomics, Republic of Korea

TBD

Changhan Lee

Changhan Lee

Ajou University, Republic of Korea

Proteostasis of Pseudomonas antarctica in the Cold

Jong-Hyun Jung

Jong-Hyun Jung

The Catholic University of Korea, Republic of Korea

TBD

In Seop Chang

In Seop Chang

GIST, Republic of Korea

Metabolic Versatility with Reductive Acetate Uptake in Acetogens

Dominique Madern

Dominique Madern

Institut de Biologie Structurale, France

The Structure of a Resurrected Ancestral Halophilic Enzyme Reveals That "Allosteric Halophilicity" Is the Mechanism Governing Halophilic Adaptation

Marco Mangiagalli

Marco Mangiagalli

University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy

Unravelling the Role of Oligomerization in Cold Adaptation by Resurrecting Ancestral Enzymes

Laurence Blanchard

Laurence Blanchard

CEA Cadarache/CNRS, France

DNA Damage Response in Radioresistant Deinococcus and Related, Thermophilic Bacteria

Issay Narumi

Issay Narumi

Toyo University, Japan

DNA Mismatch Repair System in Deinococcus grandis

Joanna Timmins

Joanna Timmins

IBS Grenoble, France

From Chaos to Order: Uv-Induced Nucleoid Remodelling as a Survival Strategy in Deinococcus radiodurans

Fabai Wu

Fabai Wu

Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, China

From Hydrothermal Vent ANME Virome to the Hidden Diversity Across Global Sediments

Hackwon Do

Hackwon Do

Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI), Republic of Korea

Structural Basis of Hyperactivity in Extremophilic Ice-Binding Proteins and Engineering of Thermostable Variants

Naomichi Takemata

Naomichi Takemata

Ritsumeikan University, Japan

TBD