| Participant | Institutional affiliation |
| Folashade Agusto | NIMBioS |
| Paul Armsworth | Univ. Tennessee |
| Barbara Benitez-Gucciardi | Houston Baptist Univ. |
| Michael Bevers* | USDA Forest Service, Fort Collins, CO |
| Sharon Bewick | NIMBioS |
| Erin Bodine | Univ. Tennessee |
| Lydia Bourouiba | York Univ., Canada |
| Eungchun Cho | Kentucky State Univ. |
| Swati Debroy | Univ. Florida |
| Renee Fister | Murray State Univ. |
| Joe Hughes | Univ. Tennessee |
| Mohammad Safayet Khan | Univ. Dhaka & Univ. Tromso |
| Cristina Lanzas | Cornell Univ. |
| Rachel Leander | Univ. Tennessee |
| Namyong Lee | Minnesota State Univ. |
| Maria Leite | Univ. Oklahoma |
| Kun Justine Leng | SUNY-Buffalo |
| Suzanne Lenhart* | NIMBioS/Univ. Tennessee |
| Zhao Lu | Cornell Univ. |
| Yi Mao | NIMBioS |
| Alex Masarie | Colorado State Univ. |
| Erin McCowen | Colorado State Univ. |
| Curtis Miller | Univ. Kansas |
| Holly Moeller | MIT/Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst |
| Olivia Prosper | Univ. Florida |
| Karen Rios-Soto | Univ. Puerto Rico-Mayaguez |
| Michael Robert | North Carolina State Univ. |
| Jean Tchuenche | Univ. of Guelph |
| Miranda Teboh-Ewungkem | Lafayette Collge, PA |
| Carl Toews | Duquesne Univ. |
| Jiafeng Wang | York Univ., Canada |
| Eti Wiraningsih | Gadjah Mada Univ. |
| Mohammed Yahdi | Ursinus College |
| Xiaopeng Zhao | Univ. Tennessee |