- Deepa Agashe (National Center for Biological Sciences, India)
- Nancy Chen (University of Rochester, USA)
- Kavita Jain (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, India)
- Michael Lynch (Arizona State University, USA)
- Susanna Manrubia (Centro Nacional de Biotecnología CNB-CSIC, Spain)
- Guillaume Martin (Universidad de Montpellier II, France)
- David Nelson (Harvard University, USA)