Michael is the Director of the IIHG Bioinformatics Division.  He is focused on staying current with developments in bioinformatics and computational biology to anticipate and respond to the changing analysis needs of the University of Iowa research community.  

Michael is a research scientist with many years of broad experience in the fields of bioinformatics, computational chemistry, and structural biology.  He earned his B.S. in biochemistry from the University of Iowa in 2003. Next, he went to the Johns Hopkins University and earned a PhD studying protein structure/function and electrostatics with Bertrand Garcia-Moreno.  He then did a postdoc at UCSF with Matt Jacobson and Mark Kelly in computational chemistry and drug discovery. 

In 2015, Michael joined the IIHG as a research scientist. His research interests include integrated analysis of *-seq experiments, machine-learning in bioinformatics, and pipeline design. Michael lives in Iowa City with his wife and two children.  He enjoys cycling and playing saxophone.