Dr. Petr Kosachev (Altai State University, Barnaul, Russia) – Taxonomy and Evolution of Veronica subg. Pseudolysimachium

Prof. Sergei Mosyakin (Academy of Science, Kiev, Ukraine) – Taxonomy and Evolution of Veronica subg. Pseudolysimachium

Prof. Nikolai Kuhnert (Jacobs University Bremen, Germany) – Diversity of kale

Prof. Dr. Montserrat Martínez Ortega (Universidad de Salamanca, Spanien) – Systematics of Veronica

Dr. Hartwig Schepker, Prof. Matthias Ulrich, Prof. Nikolai Kuhnert, Prof. Klaudia Brix (Jacobs University Bremen, Deutschland) – Diversity of Rhododendron and its secondary metabolites

Prof. Jens Boenigk (Universität Essen, Deutschland) – Biogeography of protists

Prof. Bernd Siebenhüner und Apfel:gut (CvO University Oldenburg) – Apple breeding

Priority program „Taxon-omics“ of the German Science Foundation (SPP1991)

Research unit „DynaCOm“ of the German Science Foundation (FOR2716)

Dr. Bill Lee (Lancare Research Dunedin, New Zealand), Dr. Heidi Meudt (Museum of New Zealand – Tepapa, Wellington, New Zealand), Dr. Jennifer Tate (Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand) – Whole-genome duplication in plants of New Zealand

Dr. Adeola Sonibare (University of Ibadan, Nigeria) – Diversity Dioscorea dumetorum (trifoliate yam)