Miguel Macias Gonzalez finished his PhD in the Michelmore Lab in 2017. He received his BSc in 2011 in Plant Science at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. His research topics included finding candidate genes for tipburn tolerance in iceberg lettuce and QTL mapping of tipburn tolerance in a new population from a cross between two iceberg lettuce. He is currently a vegetable breeder at a seed company in California.