- Campbell Webb (Primary organizer). Forest evolutionary ecology and forest botany (http://www.phylodiversity.net/cwebb)
- Chuck Davis (Assistant professor, OEB, Harvard). Plant systematics and evolution. (http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/%7Eccdavis)
- Paul Moorcroft (Associate professor, OEB, Harvard). Ecosystem ecology. (http://www.esm.harvard.edu)
- Naomi Pierce (Professor, OEB, Harvard). Entomology. (http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/pierce/people/Naomi/Naomi.html)
- Stuart Davies (Director, CTFS)
