| Ruth E Timme | Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, College Park |
| Nabil-Fareed Alikhan | Quadram Institute Bioscience |
| Alan Christoffels | South African Medical Research Council Bioinformatics Unit, South African National Bioinformatics Institute, University of the Western Cape |
| Damion Dooley | Simon Fraser University |
| Ilene Karsch-Mizrachi | National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institutes of Health |
| Tanya Barrett | National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institutes of Health |
| Tanya Barrett | National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institutes of Health |
| Anjanette Johnston | National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institutes of Health |
| Duncan MacCannell | National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |