Organization Conference Chair Farid Ablayev (Kazan State University, Russia) Program Committee Chair Ernst W. Mayr (TU München, Germany) Conference Secretariat Alexander Vasiliev Dina Mingazova Mikhail Abramskiy Ramil Garaev Mansur Ziatdinov Regina Kozlova Steering Committee Volker Diekert (Stuttgart) Anna Frid (Novosibirsk) Edward A. Hirsch (St.Petersburg) Juhani Karhumäki (Turku) Mikhail Volkov (Ekaterinburg)