Mike is an evolutionary ecologist who studies symbiotic interactions between soil microbes and plants.\u00a0 He is the lab instructor for all of the core course labs \u2013 Cell Biology and Genetics, Ecology, and Biodiversity and Evolution. He also offers a soil ecology course and has taught Biodiversity and Evolution.\u00a0 In addition, he is the resident naturalist at Macalester’s Ordway Field Station, where he lives with his two boys, Ian and Miles. \u00a0In his spare time he enjoys combing the field station grounds with them in search of novel ecological interactions.<\/p>\n
BS:\u00a0 University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2002<\/p>\n
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