Associate Dean, Division of Undergraduate Education
Molecular Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Mike Wilton is an Associate Dean in the Division of Undergraduate Education, College of Letters & Science, and a Professor in the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Development of Biology.
Dr. Wilton received his BS degree in Biology from Queen's University and his PhD in Cell and Systems Biology at the University of Toronto. His doctoral thesis focused on characterizing the enzymatic function of bacterial toxins delivered into host cells to suppress immune responses. Following completion of his PhD, Dr. Wilton was a Cystic Fibrosis postdoctoral fellow at the University of Calgary, where he worked on identifying novel virulence strategies employed by Pseudomonas bacteria to evade or defend against the host immune responses.