• Madelaine Bartlett (University of Massachusetts Amherst – USA)

• James Clark (University of Bath – UK)

• Lucia Colombo (University of Milano - Italy)

• Noni Franklin-Tong (University of Birmingham – UK)

• William Friedman (Harvard University – USA)

• Tetsuya Higashiyama (Nagoya University & University of Tokyo – Japan)

• Gwyneth Ingram (French National Centre for Scientific Research CNRS & École Normale Supérieure ENS de Lyon - France)

• Kerstin Kaufmann (Humboldt University of Berlin – Germany)

• Claudia Köhler (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology Postdam - Germany)

• Isabel Monte (Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen – Germany)

• Andrew Plackett (University of Birmingham – UK)

• Hughes Renault (University of Strasbourg - France)

• Uwe Scholz (Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research IPK Gatersleben - Germany)

• Sebastian Schornack (University of Cambridge – UK)

• Charlie Scutt (École Normale Supérieure ENS de Lyon - France)

• Meng-Xiang Sun (Wuhan University – China)