- Dr. Gail Ackermann
- Dr. Nadim Ajami
- Dr. Katie Amato
- Dr. Amnon Amir
- Donna Berg-Lyons
- Evan Bolyen
- Jeff DeReus
- Justine Debelius
- Chandni Desai
- Dr. Rob Dunn
- Dr. Merete Eggesbo
- James Gaffney
- Matt Gebert
- Dr. Jack Gilbert
- Grant Gogul
- Dr. Antonio Gonzalez
- Julia Goodrich
- Steve Green
- Dr. Scott Handley
- Kathy Holt
- Greg Humphrey
- Dr. Jim Huntley
- Dr. Embriette Hyde
- Zehra Esra Ilhan
- Jerry Kennedy
- Elijah Lovelace
- Dr. Cathy Lozupone
- Dr. Sebastién Matamoros
- Daniel Mayer
- Kris Mayer
- Daniel McDonald
- Dr. Jess Metcalf
- Mike Minson
- Jamie Morton
- Jose Navas
- Catherine Nicholas
- Dr. Sarah Owens
- Dr. Laura Parfrey
- Dr. Juanma Peralta
- Dr. Joe Petrosino
- Meg Pirrung
- Dr. Dorota Porazinska
- Adam Robbins-Pianka
- Jennifer Smilowitz
- Dr. Se Jin Song
- Josh Shorenstein
- Emily TerAvest
- Dr. Luke Thompson
- Kumar Thurimella
- Will Van Treuren
- Luke Ursell
- Yoshiki Vazquez-Baeza
- Tim Vigers
- Sam Way
- Tony Walters
- Sophie Weiss
- Doug Wendel
- Ulla Westermann
- Dr. Dana Willner
- Elaine Wolfe
- Dr. Doug Woodhams
- Dr. Zhenjiang Xu
- Marty Blaser, Muriel G. and George W. Singer Professor of Translational Medicine; Professor; Director Human Microbiome Program; Departments of Medicine and Microbiology, New York University
- Jason Bobe, Director, Personal Genome Project, Harvard Medical School
- Frederic Bushman, Professor, Department of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania
- J. Gregory Caporaso, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Northern Arizona University, and Argonne National Labs
- Patrice Cani, Group Leader, Faculté de pharmacie et des sciences biomédicales, Universite Catholique de Louvain
- Nicholas Chia, Associate Director - Microbiome Program, Center for Individualized Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Associate Consultant - Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Assistant Professor Biophysics, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Mayo College
- George Church, Founder, Personal Genome Project, Professor, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Founding Core Faculty Member, Wyss Institute, Professor of Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard and MIT
- Jose Clemente, Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, and Department of Medicine, Division of Clinical Immunology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York
- Maria Gloria Dominguez, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, New York University, and Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico Rio Pedras
- Pieter Dorrestein, Director, Therapuetic Discovery Mass Spectrometry Center, University of California – San Diego
- Rob Dunn, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Science, North Carolina State University
- Jonathan Eisen, Professor, Department of Evolution and Ecology and Department of Medical Microbiology, University of California at Davis
- Noah Fierer, Associate Professor, CIRES and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado at Boulder
- J. Bruce German, Director, Foods for Health Institute, University of California at Davis
- Dirk Gevers, Group Leader, Microbial Systems & Communities, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
- Jack Gilbert, Associate Professor, University of Chicago and Argonne National Labs
- Jessica Green, Associate Professor, Department of Biology, University of Oregon
- Susan Holmes, Professor, Department of Statistics, Stanford University
- Phil Hugenholtz, Director, Australian Center for Ecogenomics, University of Queensland
- Curtis Huttenhower, Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics Harvard School of Public Health
- Janet Jansson, Manager, Fundamental & Computational Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Purna Kashyap, Associate Director - Microbiome Program, Center for Individualized Medicine, Senior Associate Consultant - Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Assistant Professor Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic
- Scott Kelley, Professor, Department of Biology, San Diego State University
- Rob Knight, Professor, Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California San Diego
- Dan Knights, Assistant Professor, Biotechnology Institute, University of Minnesota
- Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown, Assistant Professor, Engineering Research Director, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University
- Jeff Leach, Founder, Human Food Project
- Carlito Lebrilla, Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of California at Davis
- Cecil M Lewis, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma
- James Lewis, Senior Scholar, Epidemiology, Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
- Ruth Ley, Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, Cornell University
- Chris Lowry, Associate Professor, Department of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado at Boulder
- Catherine Lozupone, Assistant Professor, Division of BioMedical Informatics and Personalized Medicine, Anschultz Medical Campus, University of Colorado at Denver
- David Mills, Peter J. Shields Endowed Chair in Dairy Food Science, Departments of Viticulture & Enology and Food Science & Technology University of California at Davis
- Joseph Petrosino, Director, Alkek Center for Metagenomics and Microbiome Research, Baylor College of Medicine
- Jeroen Raes, Group Leader, Department of Structural Biology, Flemish Institute of Biotechnology (VIB), Belgium
- Charles Raison, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Arizona
- Jacques Ravel, Professor, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine
- Tim Spector, Head, Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London
- Phil Strandwitz, Graduate Student, Antimicrobial Discovery Center, Northeastern University
- Jan Suchodolski, Clinical Assistant Professor & Associate Director, Gastrointestinal Laboratory, Texas A&M University
- Kelly Swanson, Associate Professor, Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Paul Wischmeyer, Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Anschutz Medical Center
- Owen White, Director, Department of Bioinformatics, University of Maryland School of Medicine; PI, Human Microbiome Project Data Analysis and Coordination Center
- Gary D. Wu, Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
- Ramnik Xavier, Chief of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Director Center for the study of Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Senior Associate Member, Broad Institute