Dr. Marcin Filutowicz, founded AmebaGone, Inc. to commercialize a novel technology based upon the unique potential of free-living professional phagocytes (Dictyostelids or Dicty), found in soil and many other environments worldwide, to combat disease-causing microbes in affecting plants, water quality and human health.

Curtis Brandt, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Departments of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Medical Microbiology and Immunology, and the Clinical Cancer Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His primary research interest is in virology, specifically pathogenesis of herpes simplex virus; virulence genes in herpetic eye disease and herpes encephalitis; antivirals; interactions between cytokines and herpes viruses, gene delivery, and gene therapy.

Amanda Gevens, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor and Extension Specialist in the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she has been on the faculty since 2009. Her expertise is in the ecology and management of diseases of potato, vegetable, hops, and mint crops.  She has expertise on late blight, a serious oomycete disease of potato and tomato crops, fungicide resistance management, biopesticide efficacy, and pathogen diversity in agricultural ecosystems. She is affiliated with Cooperative Extension, and in that role works closely with growers and processors along with home gardeners of organic and conventional systems to solve disease management problems.

Patricia McManus, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair in the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she has been on the faculty since 1995. Her expertise is in identifying and managing diseases of temperate zone fruit crops. She has expertise on fire blight, a serious bacterial disease of apple and pear trees, antibiotic use on plants, and bacterial diversity in agricultural ecosystems. She is affiliated with Cooperative Extension, and in that role works closely with fruit growers to solve disease management problems.

Richard Proctor, Ph.D., is a Professor Emeritus in the Dept. of Medicine and Microbiology, UW-Madison and retired from Merck as the Global Director for Infectious Diseases for Antibiotics and Antifungals. He has worked with bacterial pathogenesis and S. aureus genes involved in electron transport and signaling to control the production of toxins. He has also worked to define molecular and biochemical pathways of endotoxin activation of macrophages.   

John Landolt is Professor Emeritus in Plant Biology from Shepherd University in West Virginia.  He curated the Landolt Collection of dictyostelids at Shepherd University (licensed to AmebaGone), discovering their variety, distribution and occurrence of slime molds world-wide.