Invited Plenary Speakers

Prof. Dr. Abad Chabbi (Paris, FR)
- Soil Organic Matter International Symposium 2007-2015:
  Achievement, bottleneck and research need in the context of global change
Prof. Dr. Timothy Eglinton (Zurich, CH)
- Molecular ¹⁴C perspectives on organic carbon dynamics within soils and across present and past landscapes

Prof. Dr. Georg Guggenberger (Hannover, DE)
- Organic matter storage and decomposition in permafrost soils

Prof. Dr. Bruce Hungate (Flagstaff, US)
- Frontiers in microbial ecology: Growth
Prof. Dr. Rattan Lal (Ohio, US)
- The societal value of soil organic matter and the ecosystem services

Prof. Dr. Davey L. Jones (Bangor, GB)
- Rhizosphere carbon dynamics

Prof. Dr. Johannes Lehmann (Cornell, US)
- Pyrogenic organic matter dynamics and management

Prof. Dr. James Prosser (Aberdeen, GB)
- What can new approaches to microbial community analysis tell us about SOM dynamics

Prof. Dr. Johan Six (Zurich, CH)
- Drivers of soil organic matter stabilization: from the micro to the global scale

Prof. Dr. Susan Trumbore (Jena, DE)
- How radiocarbon data fool us - and what we learn as a result