Mike received his undergraduate degree at Denison University, earned a Master’s degree at Miami University, and then obtained a PhD in 2009 at Indiana University with Drs. Loren Rieseberg and Gerald Gastony. After his NSERC-BRITE Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of British Columbia with Dr. Sally Otto, he took his current position in 2011. Over that time, Mike has proven to be a prolific researcher, with more than 50 peer-reviewed publications.