Mark Jobling is a Professor of Genetics at the University of Leicester, UK. His interests are in human and animal genetic diversity and applications in fields such as forensics, conservation biology and evolutionary genetics.

Ed Hollox is Professor of Genetics at the University of Leicester, UK. His research interest is genomic structural variation, its evolution and its consequences for disease.

Toomas Kivisild is a Professor of Human Evolutionary Genetics at KU Leuven, Belgium. His interests are in human evolutionary and population genetics, with both modern and ancient DNA methods used to address questions about population histories, genetic relatedness and selection.
Chris Tyler-Smith led the Human Evolution team at The Wellcome Sanger Institute where his research focused on human and gorilla genetic diversity and the insights they provide into our evolutionary history.
Luca Pagani is a professor of Molecular Anthropology at the University of Padova, Italy. He is interested in how past encounters shaped the history and biology of present, ancient and archaic humans. He believes that almost nothing in evolution makes sense if not in the light of admixture.Brenna Henn is the Associate Director for Human Genomics at the University of California, Davis, USA. Her lab studies human genetic diversity in Africa, and how alleles that affect phenotype are shared across different global populations