Lauren Sallan

Paleobiologist & TED Senior Fellow at University of Pennsylvania

Ella Al-Shamahi

Paleoanthropologist & Stand-Up Comic

Dr. Hendrik Poinar

Evolutionary Biologist Specializing in Ancient DNA; Professor of Anthropology at McMaster University

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Michael Archer

Paleontologist Michael Archer is working to bring back his favorite extinct animal: the Tasmanian tiger.

Denise Herzing

Research Director & Founder of the Wild Dolphin Project; Author of "Dolphin Diaries"

Daniel Pauly

Daniel Pauly is the principal investigator at the Sea Around Us Project, which studies the impact of the world's fisheries on marine ecosystems. The software he's helped develop is used around the world to model and track the ocean.

Paul Snelgrove

Paul Snelgrove led the group that pulled together the findings of the Census of Marine Life -- synthesizing 10 years and 540 expeditions into a book of wonders.

Stephen Palumbi

Author of "The Death & Life of Monterey Bay", ane and Marshall Steel Jr. Professor in Marine Sciences at Stanford University and the Harold A. Miller Director of the Hopkins Marine Station

Edward Tenner

Smithsonian Institution Distinguished Scholar & Author of "Why Things Bite Back" and "Our Own Devices"

Why the Hindenburg Had a Smoking Lounge: Essays in Unintended Consequences

Dr. Tierney Thys

Marine Biologist, Award-Winning Filmmaker a& Research Associate at the California Academy of Sciences

The Ocean Sunfishes. Evolution, Biology and Conservation

Daisy Robinton

Co-Founder & CEO at Oviva Therapeutics

Cliff Kapono

Professional Surfer, Ocean Conservationist, Chemist & Journalist

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Carole K. Hooven

Evolutionary Biologist

Shane Campbell-Staton

Evolutionary Biologist, Assistant Professor at Princeton & TED Speaker

Guntur V. Subbarao

Crop Physiologist, Plant Science & Agronomy

Meg Lowman

National Geographic Explorer, Researcher, Scientist; Outdoors Enthusiast, Storyteller & Author; Forest Conservation and Sustainability Advocate

It’s a Jungle Up There: More Tales from the Treetops

Emily Leproust

CEO & Founder of Twist Bioscience

Sarah Brosnan

Primatologist; Professor of Psychology, Philosophy & Neuroscience at Georgia State University

Christian Happi

Molecular Biologist

Lara Durgavich

Biological Anthropologist

Jim Hudspeth

Biophysicist & Neuroscientist

Samuel Sternberg

Protein-RNA Biochemist, CRISPR Expert, & Author of "A Crack in Creation;" Assistant Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics Professor at Columbia University

David Baker

Director of the Institute for Protein Design

Daniel Lismore

Artist, Designer, Creative Consultant, Celebrity Stylist, Writer & Campaigner

Jon Gray

Designer, Food Lover, Entrepreneur & Co-Founder of Ghetto Gastro

Claire Wardle

Founder of First Draft News & Misinformation Expert

David R. Liu

Professor, the Broad Institute, Harvard University, & HHMI; Co-Founder, Prime Medicine, Beam Therapeutics, Editas Medicine, Pairwise Plants, Chroma Medicine, Exo Therapeutics, Resonance Medicine, & Nvelop Therapeutics

David Liu: A Master Class on the Future of Genome Editing

Dan Knights

Computational Microbiologist

Isha Datar

Executive Director at New Harvest, Co-founder of Perfect Day Foods, Cellular Agriculture Pioneer

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Penny Chisholm

Award-Winning Oceanographer & Professor, MIT