| Gaya K Amarasinghe | Washington University School of Medicine |
| Christopher F Basler | Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Georgia State University |
| Sina Bavari | United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases |
| Joseph L DeRisi | University of California san francisco |
| Elodie Ghedin | Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University |
| Gary P Kobinger | Universite Laval |
| Arcady Mushegian | National Science Foundation |
| Janusz T Paweska | Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service |
| Clarence J Peters | University of Texas Medical Branch |
| Martin Schwemmle | Institute for Virology, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, University of Freiburg |
| Jens H Kuhn | National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health |