Is Biodiversity Important, and is it Radically Changing?
Brent Mishler, Professor of Integrative Biology (Botany), UC Berkeley
Kevin Padian, Professor of Integrative Biology (Paleontology), UC Berkeley

Can We Arrest Human Aging?
Judith Campisi, Senior Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Thomas Rando, Associate Professor of Neurology & Neurological Science, Stanford

Is the World Made of Strings?
Raphael Bousso, Associate Professor of Physics, UC Berkeley
Leonard Susskind, Professor of Physics, Stanford

Do We Understand Love?
Thomas Lewis, Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, UC San Francisco
David Watts, Clinical Professor of Medicine, UC San Francisco

Was the Origin of Life Inevitable?
David Deamer, Professor of Chemistry, UC Santa Cruz
Andrew Pohorille, Principal Investigator, NASA-Ames Research Center

Can We Uncover the True Nature of Black Holes?
Eliot Quataert, Associate Professor of Astronomy, UC Berkeley
Eva Silverstein, Professor of Physics, Stanford