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== Bio == | == Bio == |
Revision as of 12:47, 21 June 2007
Bio
Hi. My name is Melanie Barker Berkmen.
I am an assistant professor of biochemistry at Suffolk University. Welcome to my lab webpage!
How to contact me:
email: mberkmen at suffolk.edu
phone: to be determined
address:
Suffolk University
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
41 Temple St.
Boston, MA 02114
Education
(2002-2007) Jane Coffin Childs Post-Doctoral Fellow
Massachusetts Insitute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Laboratory of | Alan D. Grossman
(2001) Ph.D., Cellular and Molecular Biology
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madision, WI
Laboratory of | Richard L. Gourse
(1995) B.S., Biochemistry
University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, summa cum laude
Personal
My husband, Mehmet Berkmen, is also a microbiologist. He was a post-doc in Jon Beckwith's lab at Harvard Medical School.
http://beck2.med.harvard.edu/
Now he is at the biotech company New England Biolabs, where he is developing Escherichia coli strains and plasmids for recombinant protein production.
http://www.neb.com/nebecomm/default.asp.
Here are some of the things that I am doing when I am not in the lab, cooking, learning Turkish, or playing with my son Kaan (born December 21, 2006).
Teaching and supervisory experience
(Fall 2005) Co-instructor for an undergraduate seminar class at MIT
I co-taught a literature-based class on DNA dynamics in the tiny bacterial cell with Lyle Simmons. Each week we discussed two papers exploring bacterial DNA replication, chromosome and plasmid partitioning, conjugation, or cell shape.
http://web.mit.edu/biology/www/undergrad/adv-ugsem.html
(2004-2005)Co-chair of the organizing committee for the 2005 Boston Bacterial Meeting
http://mcb.harvard.edu/losick/BBM2005/
(2003-present) Active Participant in the Howard Hughes Medical Institutes Extended Education Group
http://www.cfkeep.org/html/snapshot.php?id=29045795
led by Graham Walker at MIT
(2005-present) Question consultant for the 2005 National Biology Olympiad
for high school students in collaboration with the Center for Excellence in Education in McLean, VA
http://www.cee.org/usabo/index.shtml
(Each Spring 2004-present) Volunteer assistant/instructor for the "Science Field Trip to MIT"
that involved ~90 students from four Boston area high schools and their teachers. In 2004, I helped run a lab exercise based on microscopic observation of zebrafish embryos. In 2005 and 2006, Jenny Auchtung and I designed and ran a lab exercise based on bacterial responses to starvation and stress. We had the high school students act as CSI agents and discover whether the "mysterious white powder" found in an envelope was Bacillus spores or harmless.
http://www.cfkeep.org/html/snapshot.php?id=84010578