Keith Yamamoto, Chair
Professor of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology
Executive Vice Dean, School of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA 

Bonnie L. Bassler
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Professor of Molecular Biology
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ

Vicki L. Chandler
Chief Program Officer for Science
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Palo Alto, CA; and
Regents' Professor, Departments of Plant Sciences and Molecular & Cellular Biology
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ

Sean Eddy
Group Leader
Janelia Farm Research Campus
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Ashburn, VA

Mark D. Fitzsimmons
Associate Director
MacArthur Fellows Program
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Chicago, IL

David R. Franz
Vice President and Chief Biological Scientist
Midwest Research Institute
Frederick, MD; and
Senior Advisor, Office of the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Defense Programs

Louis J. Gross
James R. Cox Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Mathematics
Director, The Institute for Environmental Modeling
University of Tennessee, Knoxville; and
Director, National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis
Knoxville, TN

Richard A. Johnson
Counsel and Senior Partner (Reitred)
Arnold and Porter
Washington, D.C.

Cato T. Laurencin
Van Dusen Endowed Chair in Academic Medicine
Distinguished Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
Vice President for Health Affairs
University of Connecticut Health Center; and
Dean, University of Connecticut School of Medicine
University of Connecticut Health Center
Farmington, CT

Alan I. Leshner
CEO and Executive Publisher of Science
Association for the Advancement of Science
Washington, D.C.

Bernard Lo
Professor of Medicine
Director, Program in Medical Ethics
Director, Greenwall Faculty Scholars in Bioethics Program
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

Robert M. Nerem
Parker H. Petit Distinguished Chair for Engineering in Medicine and Institute Professor
Director, Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience
Director, Georgia Tech/Emory Center for the Engineering of Living Tissue
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA

Camille Parmesan
Associate Professor of Integrative Biology
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX

Muriel E. Poston
Dean of the Faculty
Professor of Biology
Skidmore College
Saratoga Springs, NY

Alison G. Power
Dean of the Graduate School
Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and of Science & Technology Studies
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY

Margaret Riley
President, Massachusetts Academy of Sciences
Professor of Biology, University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA

Bruce W. Stillman
President and Chief Executive Officer
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Cold Spring Harbor, NY

Cynthia Wolberger
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Professor of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD

Mary Woolley
President and Chief Executive Officer
Research!America
Alexandria, VA