Since the topic of this symposium is very interdisciplinary, speakers are coming from various fields of science. They are ordered according to their main field of expertise for this conference.

• Elisa Berdalet (Institut de Ciències del Mar, CMIMA, Barcelona, Spain)
  Small-scale physical-biological interactions and chemical ecology: open questions and tools to understand harmful algal blooms dynamics
• Stephan Bialonski (Max-Planck-Inst. for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany)
  Interplay between algal growth and transport in the California Bight
• David A. Caron (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA)
  Pseudonitzschia in the Southern California Bight
• Subhendu Chakraborty (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
  Modeling of harmful algal blooms: combining excitability and competition
• Kevin Flynn (Swansea University, UK)
  Mechanistic Modelling of HABs: emerging priorities
• Patricia Glibert (University of Maryland, USA)
• Per Juel Hansen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
  Importance of mixotrophy and toxicity for the formation of HABs
• Uwe John (Alfred-Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven, Germany)
  Genomics and field studies to understand bloom development
• Raphael Kudela (University of California at Santa Cruz)
• Iván Pérez-Santos (Universidad de Los Lagos, Chile)
  Biophysical interactions in Patagonian fjords and channels
• Urban Tillmann (Alfred-Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven, Germany)
  Intraspecific variability in toxin production in dinoflagellates
• Dedmer van de Waal (Netherlands Institute for Ecology)
  Combined effects of pCO2 and nutrient limitation on HABs
• Oliver Zielinski (University of Oldenburg, ICBM, Wilhelmshaven, Germany)
  Favorable habitats and abiotic conditions for bloom-forming dinoflagellates along the West-Greenland coast