John Yates III Ernest W. Hahn Professor, Departments of Molecular Medicine and Neurobiology, The Scripps Research Institute, California, USA. Peter Schoenmakers Professor and Scientific Director, Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, The University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Robert (Bob) Kennedy Hobart H Willard Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry; Professor of Chemistry, Chair-Chemistry, College of LS&A; Professor of Pharmacology, Medical School, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. Ruedi Aebersold Professor of Molecular Systems Biology and Chair, Department of Biology, ETH Zurich and Faculty of Science, University of Zurich, Switzerland. Jonathan Sweedler Editor-in-Chief, Analytical Chemistry; James R. Eiszner Family Endowed Chair in Chemistry and Director of the School of Chemical Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. Richard Zare Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor in Natural Science, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA. Pat Sandra Emeritus Professor, Organic Chemistry, Ghent University; Founder and President, Research Institute for Chromatography, Kortrijk, Belgium. Emily Hilder Director, Future Industries Institute, University of South Australia, Australia. George Whitesides Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA. Gert Desmet Full Professor and Department Head, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.