Daniel L. Hartl is Higgins Professor of Biology at Harvard University, a Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, and a Senior Associate Member of the Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received his B.S. degree and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin and carried out postdoctoral research at the University of California at Berkeley. His research interests include molecular genetics, genomics, molecular evolution, and population genetics Bruce Cochrane, PhD is a Professor of Biology at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and has been an Associate Provost for Research and Scholarship also at Miami University. Prior he was a faculty member and administrator at the University of South Florida (USF) in Tampa, Florida. His professional background is in genetics, and as a faculty member he mentored over twenty masters and doctoral students. He was a member of the group that developed the ETD initiative at USF in 2000-2001. Dr. Cochrane received his bachelors degree in Biology from Cornell University and his Masters in Zoology and Ph. D. in Genetics from Indiana University.