Dr. Claudio Basilico
Professor and Chairman, Department of Microbiology, NYU School of Medicine

Dr. Joan Massague
Director, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Dr. Bruce Cronstein
Professor of Medicine, Pathology and Pharmacology, NYU School of Medicine

Dr. Inder Verma
Professor and Director of the Laboratory of Genetics, The Salk Institute for Biological Sciences

Dr. Rudolf Jaenisch
Member, Whitehead Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Dr. Jan Vilcek
Professor of Microbiology, NYU School of Medicine

Dana Cowin
Editor-in-Chief, Food & Wine Magazine

David Kamp
Culinary Writer and Editor, Vanity Fair Magazine

Dan Barber
Executive Chef and Co-Owner, Blue Hill Restaurant

Ruth Reichl
Former Editor-in-Chief, Gourmet Magazine

Maria Guarnaschelli
Vice President & Senior Editor, W. W. Norton & Company

Susan Ungaro
President, James Beard Foundation

Dr. Heran Darwin
Professor of Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine

Dr. Leslie Vosshall
Robin Chemers Neustein Professor, The Rockefeller University

Dr. Laurie Dempsey
Senior Editor, Nature Immunology, Nature Publishing Group

Nicholas Wade
Science Department, The New York Times

Dr. Peter Palese
Horace W. Goldsmith Professor and Chair of Microbiology, Professor of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Dr. Jedd Wolchok
Lloyd J. Old Chair for Clinical Investigation, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Dr. Jan Vilcek
Professor of Microbiology, NYU School of Medicine

Karine Bakhoum
President, KB Networks

Gabrielle Langholtz
Editor-in-Chief, Edible Brooklyn/Edible Manhattan

Darra Goldstein
Professor, Williams College; Editor-in-Chief, Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture

Harvey Levenstein
Professor Emeritus, McMaster University; Author, Paradox of Plenty

Andrew Knowlton
Restaurant Editor, Bon Appetite