Martien A.M. Groenen, Ph.D., Professor, Animal Breeding and Genomics Center, Wageningen University

Alan L. Archibald, FRSE, Ph.D., Professor and Head of Division of Genetics and Genomics, The Roslin Institute R(D)SVS, University of Edinburgh

Yutao Du, Ph.D., Head of Division of Cloning and Genetic Engineering, BGI

Cisca Wijmenga, Ph.D., Professor of Human Genetics, Department of Genetics, University of Groningen

Rasmus Nielsen, Ph.D., Professor of Biology, Departments of Integrative Biology and Statistics at UC Berkeley

Joyce Peng, Ph.D., Marketing Director, BGI Americas

Jun Wang, Ph.D., BGI CEO

Jack Gilbert, Ph.D., Project Director of Earth Microbiome Project, Professor of University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory

Karen E. Nelson, Ph.D., Director of the Rockville, Maryland campus of the J. Craig Venter Institute

Decoding the Deadly Outbreak Strain of E.coli

Liang Yang, Ph.D., Technical University of Denmark & Visiting Scholar at University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf

Peter Chin-Hong, M.D., Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, UCSF

Joyce Peng, Ph.D., Marketing Director, BGI Americas