BRIEF BIOGRAPHY

Mike obtained his B.S. in Microbiology from the University of New Hampshire and his M.S. in Aerospace Engineering Sciences from the University of Colorado. For his Ph.D. research, he drew upon these two disciplines to study the effects of spaceflight on bacteria. His graduate studies were conducted at BioServe Space Technologies (a NASA Research Partnership Center at the University of Colorado) and were highlighted by an experiment that flew onboard the International Space Station. In January of 2006, he began work as a Postdoctoral Scholar under Dr. A.C. Matin in the Microbiology & Immunology Department at Stanford University, and in 2009 he was promoted to Research Associate.