| Martin Bayer | Cell Polarity and Reproductive Development |
| Farid El Kasmi | NLR Biology and the relationship of Immunity and Trafficking |
| Jessica Erickson | Bacterial Apoplast Modulators |
| Julien Gronnier | Spatial and temporal regulation of cell-surface signaling, from the nanoscale to the organism |
| Klaus Harter | Plant signal perception, transduction and integration |
| Gerd Jürgens | Vesicle Trafficking |
| Eric Kemen | Microbial Interactions in Plant Ecosystems |
| Birgit Kemmerling | Molecular analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana receptor protein kinases implicated in pathogen defense |
| Thomas Lahaye | Effector proteins of bacterial plant pathogens: how do they manipulate the course of infection in favour of the bacterial parasite and how do they trigger plant immune responses? |
| Rosa Lozano-Duran | Molecular plant-(gemini)virus interactions |
| Isabel Monte | Evolution of Plant Signaling in Immunity and Development |
| Gabriella Mosca | Biomechanical Modeling of Morphogenesis |
| Thorsten Nürnberger | Plant Innate Immunity |
| Claudia Oecking | Function of plant 14-3-3 proteins |
| Erik Schäffer | Cellular Nanoscience |
| Margot Smit | Timing of Fate Transitions |
| Marja Timmermans | Pattern Formation and Cell Differentiation During Organogenesis |
| Sebastian Wolf | Plant cell wall signalling |
| Ulrike Zentgraf | Leaf senescence of annual plants |
