1. Ton Bisseling is a professor in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Department of Plant Sciences, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands.
2. Jeffery L. Dangl is the John N. Couch Professor of Biology and associate director of the Carolina Center for Genome Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
3. Paul Schulze-Lefert is the director of the Department of Plant-Microbe Interactions at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany, and honorary professor at the University of Cologne, Germany.