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- Dr. Jeremy Stone - Professor of Bacteriology at the University of California at Berkeley; a Nobel Prize winner.
- Dr. Charles Burton - Professor of pathology at the Baylor College of Medicine
- Dr. Peter Leavitt - Clinical microbiologist; suffers from epilepsy
- Dr. Mark Hall - Medical doctor and surgeon
- Dr. Christian Kirke - Anthropologist and electrolytes specialist; does not participate in Wildfire project due to illness
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