Alison Bennett (The James Hutton Institute, UK)

Alison Karley (The James Hutton Institute, UK)

Scott Johnson (The James Hutton Institute, UK; University of Western Sydney, Australia)

Tim Daniell (The James Hutton Institute, UK)

Alex Dumbrell (University of Essex, UK)

Garret Suen (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)

Next-generation data mining: characterizing microbial communities associated with leaf-cutter ant colonies

Julia Ferrari (University of York, UK)

Marcel Dicke (Wageningen University, The Netherlands)

Aboveground-belowground interactions of plants with microbes and insects: from mechanisms to ecology

Mirka Macel (University of Tuebingen, Germany)

Nicole van Dam (Radboud University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands)

Multiple stress management in plants: interactions between aboveground and belowground herbivore-induced responses

Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin (Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany)

Richard Bardgett (Lancaster University, UK)

Ted Turlings (University of Neuchatel, Switzerland)

Thure Hauser (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

Interactions between the crucifer Barbarea vulgaris, flea beetles (Phyllotreta nemorum), white rust (Albugo candida), and others: a multidisciplinary quest