- Philip Benfey (Duke University and HHMI, USA)
- Eva Benkova (Ghent University, Belgium)
- Joanne Chory (The Salk Institute and HHMI, USA)
- Pankaj Dhonukshe (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
- Mark Estelle (University of California San Diego, USA)
- Jiri Friml (Ghent University, Belgium)
- Andrea Gallavotti (Rutgers University, USA)
- Veronica Grieneisen (John Innes Centre, UK)
- Christian Hardtke (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
- Kenichiro Hayashi (The Okayama Science University, Japan)
- Yrjo Helariutta (University of Helsinki, Finland)
- Hiroyuki Kasahara (RIKEN, Japan)
- Jurgen Kleine-Vehn (Institute of Applied Genetics and Cell Biology, Austria)
- Marta Laskowski (Oberlin College, USA)
- Ottoline Leyser (Cambridge University, UK)
- Chuanyou Li (Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, China)
- Paula McSteen (University of Missouri, USA)
- Jennifer Nemhauser (University of Washington, USA)
- Wendy Peer (Purdue University, USA)
- Sephan Pollmann (UPM-INIA, Spain)
- Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz (University of Calgary, Canada)
- Sabrina Sabatini (Sapienza University, Italy)
- Lucia Strader (Washington University, USA)
- Eva Sundberg (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden)
- Masao Tasaka (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
- Jan Traas (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, France)
- Teva Vernoux (CNRS/Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France)
- Dolf Weijers (Wageningen University, the Netherlands)
- Zhenbiao Yang (University of California Riverside, USA)
- Yunde Zhao (University of California San Diego)