- Orna Amster-Choder (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
- Daniella Barilla (University of York, UK)
- Thomas Bernhardt (Harvard Medical School, USA)
- Tanmay Bharat (LMB, UK)
- Marc Bramkamp (Kiel University, Germany)
- Yves Brun (University of Montreal, Canada)
- Carmen Buchrieser (Institut Pasteur, France)
- Nathalie Campo (Centre de Biologie Intégrative (CBI),Toulouse, France)
- Jean-François Collet (Institute de Duve, Belgium)
- Ankur Dalia (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA)
- Francisco Garcia-del-Portillo (CNB, CSIS, Spain)
- Erin Goley (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
- Simonetta Gribaldo (Institute Pasteur, France)
- Stephan Gruber (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
- Angelika Gründling (Imperial College London, UK)
- Kristina Jonas (Stockholm University,Sweeden)
- Bavesh Kana (University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa)
- Saikrishnan Kayarat (IISER Pune, India)
- Kimberly Kline (University of Geneva)
- Didier Mazel (Institute Pasteur, France)
- Laurence Van Melderen (IBMM, Belgium)
- Tam Mignot (CNRS Laboratoire de Chimie Bactérienne, Marseille, France)
- Rodrigo Reyes-Lamothe (McGill University, Canada)
- Enrique Rojas ( New York University, USA)
- Jeanne Salje (Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Bangkok, Thailand)
- Susan Schlimpert (John Innes Centre, UK)
- Markus Seeger (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
- Sloan Siegrist (University of Massachuetts Amherst, USA)
- Amit Singh (IISc, India)
- Martin Thanbichler (University of Marburg, Germany)
- Umesh Varshney (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India)
- Jade Wang (University of Wisconsin, USA)
- Wolfram Zückert (University of Kansas, USA)