Beatriz Aguirre is a PhD candidate in Cornell's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology with a research emphasis on Plant Viruses. She is also a graduate research fellow with the National Science Foundation (NSF)

David Esparza is a PhD candidate in Cornell’s Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology with an emphasis on biology education research. He is also a Graduate Research Fellow of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and a Research Fellow with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

7Song is the director and a teacher at the Northeast School of Botanical Medicine. He is an herbal practitioner and the director of Holistic Medicine at the Ithaca Free Clinic.

Dr. Dan Katz is an assistant professor in the school of Integrative Plant Science at Cornell. His lab addresses questions about plant-related public health issues with an emphasis on allergenic pollen

Dr. Anurag Agrawal is a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and the author of the award-winning book Monarchs and Milkweeds

Dr. Karl Niklas is a Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor emeritus in the School of Integrative Plant Science at Cornell University, a former curator at New York Botanical Garden, former president of the Botanical Society of America, former Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Botany, and author of five major books including Plant Evolution and Plant Physics

Dr. Jed Sparks is the director of Cornell University Stable Isotope Laboratory (COIL) and department chair/ professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University.