Professor Brandvain received his B. A. in Human Ecology from College of the Atlantic before obtaining his Ph. D. in Evolutionary Biology from Indiana University. Brandvain has also completed research at the University of California- Davis as a postdoctoral fellow. Most recently, Brandvain has published an article with fellow UMN faculty, Dena Grossenbacher, Ryan Briscoe Runquist and Emma E. Goldberg in Ecology Letters entitled ‘Geographic range size is predicted by plant mating system.’