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MacLean Kohlmeier received his PhD from the University of Manitoba in 2020 with Prof. Ivan Oresnik. He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Microbial Genomics in the Legume Rhizobium Sciences group at Murdoch University. His research interests include gene transfer events between soil bacteria, as well as carbon metabolism and transport, and how these features affect symbiotic establishment and efficiency.

Graham O’Hara is Director of Murdoch University’s Legume Rhizobium Sciences centre in the Food Futures Institute, and co-curator of the International Legume Inoculant Genebank (ILIG). He has worked extensively in national and international projects on applied nitrogen fixation leading to the development and dissemination of inoculant rhizobia strains. His research interest is focussed on the soil ecology, mineral nutrition, physiology and stress tolerance of rhizobia, and how this affects their performance as inoculants in the field.

Joshua Ramsay carried out his PhD in 2004–2008 at the University of Otago with Prof. Clive Ronson. He was then a University of Cambridge Herchel Smith Postdoctoral Fellow from 2008 to 2011 and a Health Sciences Career Development Fellow at the University of Otago. Ramsay started his own lab at Curtin University in 2013. Dr Ramsay’s investigations explore the effects of mobile genetic elements in both health related and agricultural contexts. In 2018, Dr Ramsay was awarded an ARC Future Fellowship and he is currently an Associate Professor in the Curtin Medical School and Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute.

Jason Terpolilli is Research Director of Murdoch University’s Legume Rhizobium Sciences centre in the Food Futures Institute, and co-curator of ILIG. He works closely with colleagues across Australia on several projects aimed at increasing the application of effective nitrogen-fixing rhizobia for grain and pasture legumes. His main areas of research interest are in rhizobia genetics and biochemistry and in applying genomics to develop robust approaches to studying the evolution of these organisms and their effect on farming systems in the field.