| Nikos C Kyrpides | DOE-Joint Genome Institute, King Abdulaziz University |
| Jonathan A Eisen | University of California davis |
| Tanja Woyke | DOE-Joint Genome Institute |
| Markus Göker | |
| Patrick S G Chain | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| Antoine Danchin | |
| Peter Dawyndt | Ghent University |
| Edward F DeLong | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Timothy J Donohue | University of Wisconsin-Madison, Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center |
| Claire M Fraser | Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine |
| Richard Gibbs | Baylor College of Medicine |
| Jack A Gilbert | Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology, Argonne National Laboratory |
| Frank Oliver Glöckner | Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH |
| Jay D Keasling | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States of America Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) |
| Rob Knight | Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado |
| Alla Lapidus | Theodosius Dobzhansky Center for Genome Bioinformatics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg Academic University |
| Folker Meyer | Argonne National Laboratory |
| Karen E Nelson | The J. Craig Venter Institute |
| Nan Qin | The First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University |
| Mitchell L Sogin | Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Evolution and Molecular Biology |
| Rick Stevens | Argonne National Laboratory |
| George M Weinstock | |
| George M Weinstock | |
| Jean Weissenbach | |
| Owen White | Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine |
| Owen White | Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine |
| Dawn Field | U.K. Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) |
| Dawn Field | U.K. Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) |
| George M Garrity | Michigan State University |
| Hans-Peter Klenk | |