David Duncan, PhD

Chief Executive Officer

Dr. David N. Duncan, CEO of Pasteuria Bioscience, Inc., has had a long and distinguished career in the fields of agriculture and plant biotechnology. He has a background uniquely suited to carry out the company's business plan to develop biological nematicides for use in agriculture, horticulture, and home lawns & gardens.      more...

Kelly Smith, PhD

Chief Technical Officer

Dr. Smith has worked on the commercialization and scale-up of the Pasteuria penetrans production technology for the last two years while at Entomos, Inc. Previously, Dr. Smith was the Senior Scientist at Hercules Pulp and Paper Division, Jacksonville, FL where she managed and improved culture maintenance, process scale-up procedures and contamination control. She invented a laboratory-scale batch reactor for studies on biofilms and developed novel on-site monitoring techniques for anaerobic bacteria in paper mills.

Dr. Smith received a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering Science (Applied Microbiology) from the California Institute of Technology, and conducted postdoctoral research at the Smithsonian Institution, developing DNA-based monitoring methods for bioremediation of agricultural runoff. She also holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Michigan State University

Thomas Hewlett, MS

Senior Scientist

Mr. Hewlett has more than twenty years of research expertise in the biology and management of plant parasitic nematodes on agronomic and vegetable crops. He has worked on this specific technology since 1999. Mr. Hewlett was a principal in the concept of using Pasteuria penetrans at Disney’s EPCOT center, which is now in the seventh year of successful use. Prior to his scientific post, he served in the Peace Corps for five years as Supervisor of the Rural Education Center in Swaziland. Mr. Hewlett holds an M.S. in Pest Management/Nematology from the University of Florida and a B.S. in Biology from the California State University Fullerton.

Susan Griswold

Laboratory Manager

Ms. Griswold has more than 25 years of research experience in a variety of agricultural and biological disciplines, including monoclonal antibody production, molecular diagnostics for citrus canker, and field control of phytophthera, rhizoctonia, and a variety of other crop diseases. She holds a B.S. in Biology from the University of Arizona.