Dr. Michael Vershinin is a faculty member of the Department of Physics & Astronomy and a member of the Center for Cell and Genome Science at the University of Utah. Dr. Vershinin received his Ph.D. in Physics from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Steven Gross at UC Irvine. Dr. Vershinin"s research focuses on the cytoskeleton and associated processes.