Dr. Gunsalus is a Professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics at the University of California, Los Angeles within the School of Life Sciences and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. His B.S. degree is in microbiology and in chemistry from the South Dakota State University. He received his PhD in Microbial Biochemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign working with Dr. Ralph S. Wolfe. Prior to coming to UCLA, he did postdoctoral work at Stanford University in Palo Alto working in the areas of molecular biology with Drs. Charles Yanofsky and Robert D. Simoni.