| Team Leader | Ken Takai | Program Director of Extremobiosphere Research Program & Director of Precambrian Ecosystem Laboratory |
| Staff Scientist | Hisako Hirayama | |
| Takuro Nunoura | ||
| Hiroyuki Imachi | ||
| Masahiro Yamamoto | Precambrian Ecosystem Laboratory Concurrent Researcher | |
| Junichi Miyazaki | Precambrian Ecosystem Laboratory Concurrent Researcher | |
| Tomoo Watsuji | ||
| Hiroko Makita | ||
| Mitsuhiro Yoshida | ||
| Eiji Tasumi | ||
| Yukari Yoshida | ||
| Shigeru Shimamura | ||
| Masayuki Miyazaki | ||
| Staff Assistant | Mariko Abe | |
| Miho Hirai | ||
| Sanae Sakai | ||
| Yumi Saito | ||
| Student | Mami Yamamoto | |
| Guest Researcher | Satoshi Nakagawa | Associate Professor of Hokkaido University, Graduate School of Fisheries Sciences Laboratory of Marine Biotechnology and Microbiology Laboratory of Marine Microbiology |