List of participants:
| name | institute/city | ||||
| Achtman, Mark | MPI für Infektionsbiologie, Berlin | ||||
| Ardawatia, Himanshu | University of Bergen | ||||
| Ardell, David H. | Uppsala University | ||||
| Arndt, Peter | MPI for Molecular Genetics, Berlin | ||||
| Beerenwinkel, Niko | MPI for Informatics, Saarbrücken | ||||
| Berg, Johannes | Universität zu Köln | ||||
| Bernadi, Giorgio | Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Napoli | ||||
| Biham, Ofer | The Hebrew University | ||||
| Bork, Peer | EMBL Heidelberg | ||||
| Böckmann, Brigitte | Swiss Institute, Geneva | ||||
| Bornberg-Bauer, Erich | University of Münster | ||||
| Briones, Carlos | INTA, Madrid | ||||
| Chernova, Anna | MRC, London | ||||
| Coelho, Maria Manuela | University de Lisboa | ||||
| Cowen, Leah E. | Whitehead Institute, Nine Cambridge Center, Cambridge | ||||
| Deeds, Eric | Harvard University | ||||
| Dehnert, Manuel | Universität Darmstadt | ||||
| Dokholyan, Nikolay | University North Carolina, Chapel Hill | ||||
| Donald, Jason | Harvard University | ||||
| D'Onofrio, Giuseppe | Stazione Zoologica, Napoli | ||||
| Duret, Laurent | University Lyon I | ||||
| Ebeling, Werner | Humboldt Universität | ||||
| Echave, Julian | Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Bernal | ||||
| Eyre-Walker, Adam | University of Sussex, Brighton | ||||
| Fraser, Hunter | University of California, Berkeley | ||||
| Godoy, Raquel | University of Granada | ||||
| Gojobori, Takashi | National Institute of Genetics, Mishima | ||||
| Goldstein, Richard | National Institute for Medical Research, London | ||||
| Hancock, John | MRC, Oxfordshire | ||||
| Higgs, Paul | McMaster University, Hamilton | ||||
| Hütt, Marc-Thorsten | Universität Darmstadt | ||||
| Jordan, I. King | National Institutes of Health, Bethesda | ||||
| Kochzius, Marc | Universität Bremen | ||||
| Kordis, Dusan | Josef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana | ||||
| Kotelnikova, Ekaterina | State Research Institute, Moscow | ||||
| Kotlar, Daniel | Tel-Hai Academic College | ||||
| Lässig, Michael | Universität zu Köln | ||||
| Lázaro, Ester | Centro de Astrobiologia (INTA-CSIC), Madrid | ||||
| Lercher, Martin | University of Bath | ||||
| Lesk, Arthur | Cambridge Institute for Medical Research (CIMR) | ||||
| Liberles, David | University of Bergen | ||||
| Lió, P. | EMBL - European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge | ||||
| Lobry, Jean | University Lyon I | ||||
| Manke, Thomas | MPI for Molecular Genetics, Berlin | ||||
| Maydt, Jochen | MPI für Informatik, Saarbrücken | ||||
| Mehlig, Bernhard | Gothenburg University/Chalmers | ||||
| Melzner, Rainer | FSU Jena | ||||
| Moya, André | Universitat de Valencia | ||||
| Nei, Masatoshi | Pennsylvania State University | ||||
| Ohta, Tomoko | National Institute of Genetics, Mishima | ||||
| Orengo, C. | University of London | ||||
| Pal, Csaba | MTA, Budapest | ||||
| Pala, Irene | University of Lisbon | ||||
| Papp, Balazs | Eotvos University, Budapest | ||||
| Parisi, Elio | CNR, Napoli | ||||
| Pasquali, Samuela | New York University | ||||
| Peliti, Luca | Universita ``Federico II'', Napoli | ||||
| Pfeiffer, Thomas | ETH Zürich | ||||
| Phadwal, Kanchan | Birla Institute, Ranchi | ||||
| Picco, Andrea | University of Turin | ||||
| Poyatos, Juan | CNIO, Madrid | ||||
| Rampioni, Aldo | University of Florence | ||||
| Rocha, Eduardo | Institute Pasteur, Paris | ||||
| Rodrigue, Nicolas | Universite de Montreal | ||||
| Santos, Miguel A. | Universite Libre de Bruxelles | ||||
| Schuster, Peter | Universität Wien | ||||
| Selbig, Joachim | MPI of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam | ||||
| Sengupta, Supratim | Mcmaster University, Hamilton | ||||
| Shapiro, James | University of Chicago | ||||
| Soyer, Orkun S. | ETH Zürich | ||||
| Stadler, Peter F. | Universität Leipzig | ||||
| Steinke, Dirk | Universität Konstanz | ||||
| Stollenwerk, Nico | University of London | ||||
| Tekaia, Fredj | Institut Pasteur, Paris | ||||
| Trovato, Antonio | INFM, Padova | ||||
| Tsvetkova, Elena | Saint-Petersburg State Polytechnic University | ||||
| Valencia, Alfonso | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid | ||||
| Van de Peer, Yves | Ghent University, Ghent | ||||
| Virel, Ana | Umea University | ||||
| Vogel, Christine | MRC, Cambridge | ||||
| Volff, Jean-Nicolas | Universität Würzburg | ||||
| Wagner, Andreas | University of New Mexico, Albuquerque | ||||
| Xia, Xuhua | University of Ottawa |