E.O. Wilson is a life-long explorer of the natural world whose pioneering studies of ants have led to revolutionary insights across a wide range of fields, from evolution to animal and human behavior.

Mark Mescher is a professor of entomology who focuses on the role of plant volatiles in mediating ecological and evolutionary interactions among plants, insects, and pathogens. The main areas of interest of our lab are chemical ecology, disease ecology, co-evolution, and tritrophic interactions.

Peter Staley has been a long-term AIDS and gay rights activist, first as a member of ACT UP New York, then as the founding director of TAG, the Treatment Action Group. He served on the board of the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR) for 13 years.

Dr. Jennifer Rosati is a forensic entomologist and assistant professor in the Department of Sciences at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. As a forensic entomologist, she uses insect development and behavior to help with post-mortem interval estimations or time since death.