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
Thematic keynote lecturers
Jerry Eichler

Jerry Eichler

Ben Gurion University, Israel

Halobacterium salinarum: Revealing New Secrets of N-Glycosylation

Bettina Siebers

Bettina Siebers

University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Thermophilic, Acidophilic, Archaeal — and Ready for Biotechnology: Sulfolobus acidocaldarius

Fengping Wang

Fengping Wang

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Archaea and Its Functions in Marine Sediments

Yoshizumi Ishino

Yoshizumi Ishino

Kyushu University, Japan

Progress in Analyzing the Molecular Mechanisms of CRISPR-Cas System and Homologous Recombination Repair in Hyperthermophiles

Thomas J. Santangelo

Thomas J. Santangelo

Colorado State University, USA

An Archaeal Nucleotide Excision Repair Pathway

Brian Hedlund

Brian Hedlund

University of Nevada, USA

Polysaccharide Metabolism by the Aerobic Hyperthermophile Fervidibacter sacchari

Takuro Nunoura

Takuro Nunoura

Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science & Technology, Japan

TCA Cycle Variants and Their Operations in (Hyper)Thermophiles

Donato Giovannelli

Donato Giovannelli

University of Naples "Federico II", Italy

TBD

Mart Krupovic

Mart Krupovic

Institut Pasteur, France

The Wonderful Lemon-Shaped Viruses of Archaea

Beate Averhoff

Beate Averhoff

Goethe University, Germany

Some Like It Hot: The Unique DNA Transporter of Thermus thermophilus

Hannu Myllykallio

Hannu Myllykallio

CNRS, France

Evolution and Reaction Mechanism of Archaeal Thymidylate Synthases

Simon Rittmann

Simon Rittmann

Wien University, Austria

Scalable Branched-Chain Amino Acid Production with Methanothermobacter marburgensis

Arjan De Groot

Arjan De Groot

CEA Cadarache, France

Radiation and Oxidative Stress Resistance in Deinococcus Bacteria: Diversity of Repair and Protection Factors

Martin Steinegger

Martin Steinegger

Seoul National University, Republic of Korea

Exploring the Protein Universe, from Structural Motifs to Proteome-Scale Complexes

Masahiro Ito

Masahiro Ito

Toyo University, Japan

Amino Acid Production from Soy Sauce Moromi-Kasu via Protein Degradation by Alkaliphile-Derived Enzyme Systems

Roberta Iacono

Roberta Iacono

University of Naples Federico II, Italy

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