Dr. Michael L. Robinson recieved a Bachelor of Science degree from Purdue University in 1987 and a PhD in Biology from the University of South Carolina in 1992. He did his postdoctoral training in the laboraory of Dr. Paul A. Overbeek at Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Robinson  has been in the Department of Biology at Miami University since 2005 where he was promoted to Full Professor in 2008. Prior to that, he started as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at The Ohio State University in 1996 and was prommoted to Associate Professor in 2004. While at Ohio State, he was simultaneously based at Nationwide Children’s Hospital where he was the director of the Transgenic and Embryonic Stem Cell Core Laboratory. Dr. Robinson’s research is focused on developmental genetics of the vertebrate eye, with a special emphasis on lens development and retina regeneration.