Gunnar C. Hansson
University of Gothenburg, Sweden 

Akiko Iwasaki
Yale School of Medicine, USA

Melanie Brinkmann
Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Germany 

Gordon Brown
University of Aberdeen, UK 

John Brumell
The Hospital for Sick Children, Canada 

Jijie Chai
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany 

Terence Dermody
UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, USA 

Rebecca Drummond
University of Birmingham, UK 

Katherine Fitzgerald
University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA 

Wolf-Dietrich Hardt
ETH Zürich, Switzerland 

Iliyan Iliev
Weill Cornell Medicine,  USA 

Regine Kahmann
Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany

Thirumala-Devi Kanneganti
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, USA 

Bruno Lemaitre
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland 

Ruth Ley
Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Germany 

Robin May
University of Birmingham, UK 

Kathy McCoy
University of Calgary, Canada 

Edward Miao
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA 

Carla Saleh
Institut Pasteur, France 

Alan Sher
National Institutes of Health, USA 

Thierry Soldati
University of Geneva, Switzerland 

Julia Vorholt
ETH Zürich, Switzerland 

Bernhard Hube
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI), Germany

Julie Pfeiffer
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA 

Felix Randow
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK 

Feng Shao
National Institute of Biological Sciences, China 

Cyril Zipfel
University of Zurich, Switzerland 

George Luca-Ruse
EMBL Heidelberg, Germany