He graduated from Indiana University with an Bachelor of Arts, and from the University of Illinois with a Doctor of Philosophy He taught at the National Jewish Hospital and Research Center, the University of Colorado Medical Center, Indiana University and the University of California, Berkeley.
He is principal investigator at the Pace laboratory He has worked with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Astrobiology Institute.
1991 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2001 Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology of the National Academy of Sciences 2001 MacArthur Fellows Program 2007 Abbott-American Society for Microbiology Lifetime Achievement Award 2008 Ribonucleic acid Society Lifetime Achievement Award 2008 International Society of Microbial Ecology Tiedje Award for Lifetime Achievement.
National Academy of Sciences. American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
