Gina earned her BS from the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and her PhD from the Genetics Department at the University of Georgia. She was a post-doctoral research associate in Jeff Bennetzen’s lab, also at UGA, before joining the faculty at University of Cincinnati in 2010. She moved to the University of Michigan in 2013. Gina is broadly interested in plant adaptation, genome structure and function, and plant-microbial interactions.