Brad Barbazuk - University of Florida Claude dePamphilis - Penn State University Katrien Devos - UGA Mathews M. Dida - Meseno University, Kenya Hugo Dooner - Rutgers University Andrew Doust - Oklahoma State University Jorge Dubcovsky - UC Davis Larry Dunkle - Purdue University Scott Hulbert - Washington State University Elizabeth Kellogg - University of Missouri, St. Louis Patricia Klein - Texas A&M University Andy Kleinhofs - Washington State University Jianxin Ma - Purdue University Jo Messing - Rutgers Lytton Musselman - Old Dominion University John Quackenbush - Harvard University Arjula R. Reddy - University of Hyderabad Daniel Rokhsar - DOE Joint Genome Institute Cari Soderlund - University of Arizona Michael Timko - University of Virginia Nelson W. M. Wanyera - SAARI, Uganda Rod Wing - University of Arizona