Dr. Jake Michaelson is a Roy J. Carver professor of psychiatry and neuroscience and director of the division of computational and molecular psychiatry at the University of Iowa. His lab studies the effect of genetic variations on the development of the brain, with specific applications in autism and language impairment. He earned his B.S. and M.S. in biological engineering at Utah State University before earning his PhD in computational biology at the Technische Universität Dresden in Germany in 2010. After his time in Germany, he joined the lab of psychiatric geneticist Jonathan Sebat at UC San Diego, where he completed his postdoctoral training and published several of the earliest papers dealing with whole genome sequencing in autism. In 2013 he joined the faculty at the University of Iowa, and his research is supported by NIMH, NIDCD, NICHD, NHGRI, the Simons Foundation, the Roy J. Carver Trust, and the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation.