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
Featured Invited Speakers
Minkyung Baek

Minkyung Baek

Seoul National University, 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, Korea

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

Sun-Shin Cha

Sun-Shin Cha

Ewha Womans University, Korea

TBD

Byoung-Kwan Cho

Byoung-Kwan Cho

KAIST, 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, Korea

TBD

James F. Holden

James F. Holden

University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

TBD

Sung Kwen Rhee

Sung Kwen Rhee

Chungbuk National University, Korea

TBD

Yong-Keol Shin

Yong-Keol Shin

Enzynomics, Korea

TBD

Changhan Lee

Changhan Lee

Ajou University, Korea

TBD

Jong-Hyun Jung

Jong-Hyun Jung

KAERI, Korea

TBD

In Seop Chang

In Seop Chang

GIST, Korea

TBD

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

KOPRI, Korea

TBD