I never went to university or anything, but did work for 4 years at UCI in directed evolution / mitochondrial engineering, then 3 years at Stanford on the FreeG

I never went to university or anything, but did work for 4 years at UCI in directed evolution / mitochondrial engineering, then 3 years at Stanford on the FreeGenes project (got invited to work at both). Barely passed high school cause I didn't care about my classes there.