Michael is the Vincent and Stella Coates Endowed Chair at the University of California, San Francisco and a tenured Full Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology. He has appointments or is a member of the Helen Diller Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Diabetes Center, the Eli Edythe Broad Center for Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research, the Innovative Genomics Institute, and is an Investigator in the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub. Michael's work spans several fields in synthetic and systems biology and has been awarded a number of distinctions for research contributions.