Michael Blaese, M.D., President of PreGentis; Medical Director for the Fund of Inherited Disease Research. Formerly a leading scientist of immunodeficiency diseases at the National Cancer Institute.

Andreas Braun, M.D., Ph.D., President of DxInnovations, Inc. Previously Chief Medical Officer, Sequenom, Inc. and expert in genetic association studies.

Pui-Yan Kwok, M.D., Ph.D., H. Bachrach Distinguished Professor at the Cardiovascular Research Institute at the University of California, San Francisco.

Herbert Schuster, M.D., Professor of Medicine (Cardiology and Human Genetics) at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. President and CEO of Infogen GmbH.

Michael Ashburner, Ph.D., Professor at the Department of Genetics at Cambridge, England, Fellow of the Royal Society of London. Co-founder of the Gene Ontology (GO).

Suzanna Lewis, M.S., Co-Principal Investigator, The National Center for Biomedical Ontologies. Co-founder of the Gene Ontology project (GO).

Gabor Marth, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biology at Boston College and member of the HapMap Analysis Group. Author of POLYBAYES.

George Miklos, Ph.D., Director, Secure Genetics, Ltd., and Chief Scientific Officer, Human Genetic Signatures, Ltd. Disease gene expert.

Chris Mungall, M.S., Bioinformatics specialist, The National Center for Biomedical Ontologies. Co-founder of BioPerl.

Terry Speed, Ph.D., Joint head of Genetics and Bioinformatics at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, and Professor of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley.

John Witte, Ph.D., Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at University of California, San Francisco. Associate Director of Institute of Human Genetics. Author of textbook Statistics (8th Ed.). New York: Wiley, 2007.

Mark Yandell, Ph.D., Associate Professor at the Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City.