Hani Zaher, Assistant Professor, Washington University in St. Louis

Ku-San Ju, Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Medicinal Chemistry & Pharmacognosy, The Ohio State University

Paul Straight, Associate Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics, Genetics, Texas A&M University

Stacy M. Horner, Associate Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology; Associate Professor of Medicine; Associate of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society; Member of the Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University

Robin Hopkins, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences; Associate Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology; Faculty Fellow of the Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University

Pamela Soltis, Curator, Molecular Systematics & Evolutionary Genetics, Florida Museum of Natural History

Marin Brewer, Professor of Mycology, University of Georgia