Gene Discovery and Functional Plant Genomics: Nicholas Provart (Univ. of Toronto) 

Metabolic engineering and Plant Synthetic Biology: Elizabeth Sattely (Stanford University & HHMI)

Indigenous Connections and Traditional Botanical Medicines: Jonathan Ferrier (Dalhousie Univ.)

Chemical Ecology and Plant-Organismal Interactions : Bao-Hua Song (Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte)

Plant Metabolomics and Pathway Discovery: Yang Qu (Univ. of New Brunswick) 

Cannabis and Plant-derived Pharmaceuticals: Mark Lange (Washington State Univ.)

Phytochemistry of Functional Foods and Human Nutrition: Diana Roopchand (Rutgers Univ.)

Plant Immunity and Microbiome Interactions: Cristiana Argueso (Colorado State Univ.)