George Church, PhD
Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School;  Director of the Center for Computational Genetics
Leading innovator in genetics

David Baker, PhD
Professor of Biochemistry, University of Washington
Specialist in protein design and engineering

Don Bryant, PhD
Pollard Professor of Biotechnology and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Penn State University
Pioneer in photosynthetic organism biology

Jim Collins, PhD
Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Co-Director of the Center for BioDynamics, College of Engineering, Boston University
Leader in systems biology of microorganisms

Edward DeLong, PhD
Professor, Department of Biological Engineering and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT
Specialist in genomics of microorganism communities

Chaitan Khosla, PhD
Rauser-Petiprin Professor of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University
Founder, Kosan Biosciences
Specialist in bioorganic chemistry and metabolic engineering

Michael Laub, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biology, MIT
Specialist in biological cycles of microbes

Daniel Wang, PhD
Institute Professor, MIT
Founder, Biotechnology Process Engineering Center
Father of modern industrial biotechnology