朱英国院士，植物遗传学专家，武汉大学教授、博士生导师、国家重点学科发育生物学负责人、国家级有突出贡献专家、湖北省遗传学会理事长，武汉生命之美科技有限公司首席专家顾问。出生于湖北省罗田县。1964 年毕业于武汉大学，获学士学位。

朱英国教授40年来坚持水稻雄性不育与杂交优势利用研究，二十世纪70年代初利用华南普通野生稻与栽培杂交合作育成红莲型水稻不育系及红莲型杂交稻，80年代中期利用农家品种马尾粘中发现的败育株与协青早选杂交选育出马协不育系和马协型杂交稻。克隆了红莲型不育基因，发现并定位了红莲型恢复基因Rf5和Rf6；在水稻雄性不育的基础生物学方面形成了自己的特色。合著有《水稻雄性不育生物学》等专著四部，发表研究论文160余篇，其中SCI 收录33篇。曾承担过国家863项目、国家转基因专项、国家和省级攻关项目、国家自然科学基金和省部级重点项目多项。获得国家发明二等奖、湖北生科技进步一等奖等多项奖励，曾被评为国家级有突出贡献的中青年专家及国家973计划先进个人和全国师德先进个人等荣誉称号。2005 年当选为中国工程院院士。

主要荣誉：

国家发明二等奖；

自然科学三等奖；

国家级有突出贡献的中青年专家；

国家“973”计划先进个人；

中国高校科学技术一等奖；

全国师德先进个人；

湖北科学技术突出贡献奖（2007）；

袁隆平农业科技奖 ；

改革开放30年，影响湖北30人（2008）；

学术成果：

发表研究论文150余篇，其中国际性SCI论文50多篇 ；

《水稻雄性不育生物学》等专著4部；

Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

David Lilley博士, 英国皇家科学院院士，英国癌症研究所核酸结构研究组主任，邓肯大学分子生物学教授，武汉生命之美科技有限公司专家顾问。曾获英国皇家化学学会跨学科奖，RNA和核酸化学奖，捷克科学院孟德尔金奖等重大奖项。Lilley博士是核酸结构与功能领域的权威专家，主要研究核酸双螺旋结构的分支点及其蛋白的识别位点，包括：DNA 交叉、DNA交叉与蛋白的相互作用、RNA中的螺旋交叉结构、核酶等方面。这方面的研究在DNA重组及修复、RNA的结构方面具有非常重要的意义。

主要荣誉：

Royal Society of Chemistry, Interdisciplinary Award (2006)

RNA and Ribozyme Chemistry Award of The Royal Society of Chemistry (2002)

Fellow of the Royal Society (2002)

The Prelog Medal in Stereochemistry, Zurich, Switzerland (1996)

The Gold Medal of G. Mendel of the Czech Academy of Sciences (1994)

Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1988)

Member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (1984)

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Eric Westhof
 PhD.,Professor of Biochemistry in Institut de Biologie Moleculaire et Cellulaire du CNRS, Strasbourg;
 Member of Academia Europaea
 Corresponding member of the Académie des Sciences.
 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

He has published some 340 publications. His research activities are centered on the relationships between sequences, three-dimensional structures, evolution and functions of RNA molecules, especially those with catalytic activity. He is executive editor of ‘RNA Journal’, ‘Nucleic Acids Research’, and the ‘Journal of Molecular Recognition’.

Honors and Awards

Jacques MONOD Prize (Institut Pasteur, 1992)

Structural Biochemistry Chair of the Institut Universitaire de France (1995)

Member of the EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organization, 1998)

Corresponding Member of the French Academy of Sciences (1999)

Member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher LEOPOLDINA (2000)

Member of the Academia Europaea (2001)

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2001)

Fellow of the Institute of Physics, London, U.K. (2004)

Charles-Léopold MAYER Prize of the French Academy of Sciences (2007)

Fellow of american academy of sciences

Jennifer A. Doudna
 Ph.D., professor of Molecular and Cell Biology and Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator,
 Member of the advisory board in ABLife, Inc.

Honors and Awards：

Searle Scholar Award (1996)

the National Academy of Sciences Award for Initiatives in Research (1999)

NSF Alan T. Waterman Award (2000)

Member, National Academy of Sciences (2002)

Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2003)

American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow Award (2008)

Member, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies (2010)

Jamie H. D. Cate
 Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of California, Berkeley;
 Member of the Advisory Board in ABLife.

Cate is interested in protein synthesis and renewable energy. He has been dedicated to Structural Biology, Biophysical Chemistry and Systems Biology, which are the mechanisms of the regulation of human translation, bacterial protein synthesis. His research on the structure of E.coli 70S ribosome has been published in Science. His Lab explores how genes are put into action by translation. Translation is the universal process of protein synthesis, in which the ribosome translates the four-letter genetic code in messenger RNA into the twenty-letter code of proteins. The lab also works on strategies for making renewable energy and chemicals from plants.