Programm Committee co-chairs:
Svetlana Vladimirovna Degteva, doctor of sciences, the head of the Northern flora and vegetation department, director of the Institute of Biology of Komi Scientific Centre of Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Syktyvkar)
Michail Petrovich Andreev, doctor of sciences, the head of the Laboratory of Lichenology and Bryology of Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Saint-Petersburg)

Programm Committee vice-chair:
Tamara Konstantinovna Golovko, Professor, chief researcher of the Laboratory of Ecological plants physiology of the Institute of Biology of Komi Scientific Centre of Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Syktyvkar)

Programm Committee secretary:
Tatyana Nikolaevna Pystina, PhD, senior researcher of the Northern flora and vegetation department of the Institute of Biology of Komi Scientific Centre of Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Syktyvkar)

Programm Committee:
Evgeniya E. Muchnik (Institute of Forest Science, Russian Academy of Sciences, Uspenskoe, Moscow region, Russia)

Farida V. Minibayeva (Prof., Kazan Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics of Kazan Science Centre of the Russian Academy of Science, Kazan, Russia)

Jan Olof Hermansson (Lichenologist, TaigaEkologerna HB, Ludvika, Sweden)

Kazimierz Strzalka (Prof., Jagiellonian University, Malopolska Centre of Biotechnology, Krakow, Poland)

Lyudmila V. Gagarina (Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint-Petersburg, Russia)

Mikhail A. Shelyakin (Institute of Biology of Komi Scientific Centre of Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Syktyvkar, Russia)

Richard Beckett (Prof., School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, Republic of South Africa)

Organizing Committee:
Organizing Committee chair – Tatyana Nikolaevna Pystina, PhD, Institute of Biology of Komi Scientific Centre of Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Syktyvkar, Russia)

Organizing Committee vice-chair – Nataliya Anatolievna Semenova, Institute of Biology of Komi Scientific Centre of Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Syktyvkar, Russia)

Organizing Committee members:

Sergei Plusnin (Piritim Sorokin Syktyvkar State University, Syktyvkar)
Ruslan Malyshev (Institute of Biology of Komi SC UB RAS, Syktyvkar)
Elena Kuzmina (Institute of Biology of Komi SC UB RAS, Syktyvkar)
Irina Romanova (Institute of Biology of Komi SC UB RAS, Syktyvkar)
Alexey Pushkarev (Institute of Biology of Komi SC UB RAS, Syktyvkar)
Igor Dalke (Institute of Biology of Komi SC UB RAS, Syktyvkar)
Ilya Zakhozhiy (Institute of Biology of Komi SC UB RAS, Syktyvkar)
Olga Dymova (Institute of Biology of Komi SC UB RAS, Syktyvkar)
Yuriy Dubrovskiy (Institute of Biology of Komi SC UB RAS, Syktyvkar