Located between the Pacific Ocean and downtown Los Angeles, Loyola Marymount University is a comprehensive university offering 60 major programs, 55 minor undergraduate degrees and programs. The Graduate Division offers 39 master’s degree programs and one education doctorate, one juris doctorate and 10 credential programs. 
 
Founded in 1911, LMU is ranked third in “Best Regional Universities (West)” by U.S. News and World Report. LMU is the largest Jesuit Catholic university for undergraduates on the West Coast, with more than 6,000 undergraduate students and more than 3,000 graduate and law students. The state-of-the-art The William H. Hannon Library rates among the 20 best in the country according to The Princeton Review’s guide to “The Best 378 Colleges,” 2014. Bloomberg Businessweek ranks LMU sixth in the nation and third in the West in its 2013 Part-Time MBA rankings.

Loyola Marymount University

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Phone: 310.338.4419 
Email: Michelle.Lum@lmu.edu 
Office: Life Sciences Building 286 

Michelle Lum is a Professor in the department of Biology. She received her Ph.D. at UCLA in Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology where she focused on the molecular interactions between plants and beneficial microbes. Her research focuses on the identification of beneficial plant associative bacteria and identification of the mechanisms that allow these bacteria to interact and positively impact plant development. Michelle teaches upper division courses related to microbiology and plant biology and is lead instructor of the 2nd semester of the General Biology laboratory. She also mentors a number of students in microbiology and plant research.

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University of California at Los Angeles

University of California at San Diego

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