
Minkyung Baek
Seoul National University, Republic of Korea
Protein Interaction Prediction and Design Using AI

Mohamed Jebbar
Université de Bretagne Occidentale Brest, France
Adaptation of Piezophilic Thermococcales to High Hydrostatic Pressures in Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents

Yong Sun Bahn
Yonsei University, Republic of Korea
Sensing the Host: How Fungal Pathogens Integrate CO₂, Heat, and Acidic pH

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
KAIST, Republic of Korea
Engineering Acetogenic Chassis Platforms for C1 Gas Utilization

Roberta Iacono
University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Long-Term Insights into the Microbial Population Dynamics in an Active Volcano Geothermal System

Jihyun F. Kim
Yonsei University, Republic of Korea
Microbial Iron Oxidation Beneath the Larsen C Ice Shelf: A Modern Analogue for Snowball Earth Banded Iron Formations?

James F. Holden
University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Energy Generation in a Thermophilic Sulfur-Reducing Autotroph

Sung-Keun Rhee
Chungbuk National University, Republic of Korea
Versatility of Extremophilic Methanotrophs Offers Insights into Greenhouse Gas Mitigation

Yong-Keol Shin
Enzynomics, Republic of Korea
Development of Core Enzymatic Technologies for Pharmaceutical mRNA Manufacturing

Changhan Lee
Ajou University, Republic of Korea
Proteostasis of Pseudomonas antarctica in the Cold

Jong-Hyun Jung
The Catholic University of Korea, Republic of Korea
Programmable α-1,2 Glycosylation for Engineering Bioactive Glycosides Using an Extremozyme

In Seop Chang
GIST, Republic of Korea
Metabolic Versatility with Reductive Acetate Uptake in Acetogen

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
University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Unravelling the Role of Oligomerization in Cold Adaptation by Resurrecting Ancestral Enzymes

Laurence Blanchard
CEA Cadarache, France
DNA Damage Response in Radioresistant Deinococcus and Related, Thermophilic Bacteria

Issay Narumi
Toyo University, Japan
DNA Mismatch Repair System in Deinococcus grandis

Joanna Timmins
IBS Grenoble, France
From Chaos to Order: UV-induced Nucleoid Remodelling as a Survival Strategy in Deinococcus radiodurans

Fabai Wu
Eastern Institute of Technology, China
From Hydrothermal Vent ANME Virome to the Hidden Diversity Across Global Sediments

Hackwon Do
Korea Polar Research Institute, Republic of Korea
Structural Basis of Hyperactivity in Extremophilic Ice-Binding Proteins and Engineering of Thermostable Variants

Naomichi Takemata
Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Unwinding the Function of Reverse Gyrase in Hyperthermophiles
