Microbial signal transduction
Bob Bourret (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Rick Dahlquist (University of California at Santa Barbara)
Ikuro Kawagishi (Hosei University, Japan)
Metagenomics
Mel Simon (California Institute of Technology)
Mircea Podar (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
High-performance computing
Christian Halloy (UTK-ORNL Joint Institute for Computational Sciences)
Azospirillum brasilense and Azospirillum lipoferum genomes
Andrew Paterson (University of Georgia)
Florence Wisniewski-Dye and Patrick Mavingui (Universite Claude Bernard - Lyon 1, France)
Geobacter thermoleovorans genome
Roger Marchant and Geoff McMullan (University of Ulster, UK)
Other genome projects
Nikos Kyrpides (DOE Joint Genome Institute)
James Tiedje (Michigan State University)
Ron Weiner (University of Maryland at College Park)