Warren Burggren, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Biology at the University of North Texas. Burggren’s research focuses on developmental and evolutionary comparative physiology. During his career as a researcher and educator he has been a visiting professor at universities in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Mexico, Panama, and Taiwan, and has given hundreds of invited lectures in a dozen countries. Burggren has published more than 250 journal articles and book chapters, and has written edited or coedited nearly 20 books, including a widely used textbook in Animal.

Kent Chapman, PhD, is a Regents Professor of Biochemistry at the University of North Texas (UNT) in Denton, where he has developed an internationally recognized research program in plant biochemistry and cell biology. His research focuses on cellular signaling pathways, lipid metabolism, and mechanisms of lipid storage. Since 2003 Chapman has been director of the UNT Center for Plant Lipid Research. Chapman has also served as program director at the US National Science Foundation’s Division of Integrative Organismal Systems.

Bradley B. Keller MD, is the Kosair Charities Endowed Chair and director of the Pediatric Heart Research Program in the Cardiovascular Innovation Institute at the University of Louisville and the vice chair for research in the Department of Pediatrics. His research program identifies the biomechanical origins of congenital heart disease and develops engineered cardiac tissues for cardiac repair and regeneration with National Institutes of Health (NIH), American Heart Association (AHA), and foundation support. He also provides clinical care to children and adults with congenital heart disease.

Michael Monticino PhD, is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of North Texas. He has served in many leadership roles as a university administrator and in private industry. Most recently, he was president of Academic Analytics LLC, a leading provider of business intelligence solutions for US research universities. Previously, he was vice president of advancement, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and dean of the Toulouse Graduate School. He is currently serving as special assistant to the president at the University of North Texas.

John S. Torday PhD, is a professor of pediatrics and of evolutionary medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA. He has published 180 peer-reviewed articles on lung development and disease, and is currently coprincipal investigator on an NIH grant studying the epigenetic inheritance of asthma. He has published 40 peer-reviewed papers on the evolution of vertebrate physiology and two books on this subject. He was previously a professor of pediatrics at the University of Maryland (1991–1998), and at Harvard (1976–1991).