- Emma Arapetyan (National University by I. Franko, Ukraine)
- Sergey Dromashko (National Academy of Sciences, Belarus)
- Milen I. Georgiev (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)
- Jason Hoeksema (University of Mississippi, USA)
- Marc-André Selosse (French Botany Society, France)
- Jordan Zjawiony (University of Mississippi, USA)