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Spring 4-28-2016
Biography
Dr. Michael Roberts
Dr. Michael Roberts is Deputy Chief Scientist of the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) where he works to solicit, select, develop and enable flight projects for the International Space Station National Lab. Prior to joining CASIS, Michael worked as a microbial ecologist, molecular biologist and group lead in the NASA Advanced Life Support program at the Kennedy Space Center. Michael has been PI and Co-I on NASA flight experiments on Shuttle and ISS focused on bacterial recombination, plant-microbe interactions, and forward osmosis membrane technology for water recovery in microgravity. He has a B.A. from Maryville College, a Ph.D. in microbiology from Wesleyan University, and was a post-doctoral researcher in the Center for Microbial Ecology at Michigan State University and the RIKEN Institute in Wako-shi, Japan.
