25 Jun June 25, 2025 – Incredible Environmental Entrepreneur Dr. Steve Mayfield and Famous Screenwriter Turns Author Michael Lucker
Dr. Stephen Mayfield – CEO of Algenesis Materials and Former Distinguished Professor of Molecular Biology at UCSD – CEO of Blue View Footwear
If not us, who? If not now, when? If we’re not the ones
thinking about these problems, who’s going to?
Dr. Stephen Mayfield
Dr. Stephen Mayfield is the founder and CEO of Algenesis Materials, a company on a mission to reduce plastic pollution on the planet. Steve was previously a Distinguished Professor of Biology and the Director of the California Center for Algae Biotechnology, at the University of California, San Diego. His research career focuses on the molecular genetics of green algae, and on the production of bio-products using algae as a production platform, especially bio-polymers. Steve received BS degrees in Biochemistry and Plant Biology from Cal Poly State University in San Luis Obispo, and a PhD in Molecular Genetics from UC Berkeley. Following a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Geneva Switzerland he returned to California as an assistant professor at the Scripps Research Institute where he remained for 22 years becoming the Dean of Biology before joining UC San Diego in 2009. In addition to running his research group and university research centers, Steve also founded Rincon Pharmaceutical in 2005, Sapphire Energy in 2007, Triton Health and Nutrition in 2013, and Algenesis Materials in 2016.
Michael Lucker – Founder of ScreenwriterSchool and Author of Rule One
I wanted doctors to know what it was like to be in our shoes when
we come to them in pain, and I was hoping that this book would
remind them of the number one rule of health care — which is,
of course, the Hippocratic Oath: do no harm.
Michael Lucker
Michael Lucker is a professional screenwriter and professor of screenwriting with fifteen years experience writing for major studios and fifteen years experience lecturing at major colleges. He began his career writing cable commercials while earning his undergraduate degree in broadcasting and film at Boston University’s College of Communication. Soon after he landed in Los Angeles working in production for ABC, NBC, CBS, and HBO before taking a job as assistant to Steven Spielberg at Amblin Entertainment on the feature films Always, Arachnophobia, Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade, and Jurassic Park. Michael went on to work in creative affairs at Hollywood Pictures on such movies Crimson Tide, Terminal Velocity, Straight Talk, and Taking Care of Business before embarking on a career as a screenwriter for Paramount, Disney, DreamWorks, Fox, and Universal on such films as Vampire in Brooklyn, Home on The Range, Mulan II, and Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, which was nominated for an Academy Award as best animated feature. Soon an opportunity to help launch a new network for Turner Entertainment brought him home to Atlanta. He went on to work in television creating episodic series for such networks as Animal Planet, Travel Channel, Cartoon Network, Discovery, History, TBS, TNT, TLC, OWN, DIY, A&E, and MSNBC. He also consulted on such independent films as Fear of Rain, Signing Day, Good Intentions., and On a Wing and a Prayer. Recently, Michael was hired to adapt the award-winning children’s book series Freeing Freddie by FTM Media, write the feature thriller Project 33 for Monument Media, pen the feature drama Fathom & Faith for Three Ring Pictures, and develop the limited series A Nation on Fire for ShoulderHill Entertainment. A renowned instructor in screenwriting, Michael serves as lecturer at the University of North Georgia, mentor in Reinhardt University’s Creative Writing MFA program, and founder of Screenwriter School. In 2017 the Georgia Film Academy hired him to create a high school screenwriting curriculum which has since been taught to more than 15,000 students in the state.