| 2011 - 2012 |
Dr. Jack Szostak |
| 2010 - 2011 |
Dr. Cliff Tabin, MIT |
| 2009 - 2010 |
Dr. John Doebly, University of Wisconsin |
| 2008 - 2009 |
Dr. W. Ford Doolittle, Dalhouse University |
| 2007 - 2008 |
Dr. Sean Carroll, University of Wisconsin |
| 2005 - 2006 |
Dr. Dan Hartl, Harvard University |
| 2004 - 2005 |
Dr. Paul C. Sereno, Uniersity of Chicago |
| 2003 - 2004 |
Dr. Eric H. Davidson, California Institute of Technology |
| 2002 - 2003 |
Dr. Jan Klein, Max-Planck-Institute for Biologie, Germany |
| 2001 - 2002 |
Dr. Joram Piatigorsky, National Institutes of Health |
| 2000 - 2001 |
NO SPEAKER |
| 1999 - 2000 |
Dr. Simon Conway Morris, Cambridge University, UK |
| 1998 - 1999 |
Dr. Jeffrey D. Palmer, Indiana University |
| 1997 - 1998 |
Dr. Walter Gehring, University of Basel, Switzerland |
| 1996 - 1997 |
Dr. John Avise, University of Georgia |
| 1995 - 1996 |
Dr. Walter Fitch, University of Calfornia at Irvine |
| 1994 - 1995 |
Dr. Alan Templeton, Washington University at St. Louis |
| 1993 - 1994 |
Dr. Michael Clegg, University of Calfornia at Riverside |
| 1992 - 1993 |
Dr. Frank Ruddle, Yale University |
| 1991 - 1992 |
Dr. Thomas Eisner, Cornell University |
| 1990 - 1991 |
Dr. John Maynard Smith, University of Sussex, UK |