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== Bio ==
== Bio ==
Hi. My name is Melanie Barker Berkmen. I am a post-doc in Alan Grossman's lab.
'''Hi. My name is Melanie Barker Berkmen.'''<br>
I am a former post-doc in Alan Grossman's lab at MIT.  I am now an assistant professor at Suffolk University in downtown Boston, where I teach biochemistry and do research with undergraduates. I am very excited to return to the Grossman lab in the summer times as a visiting scholar.<br>


=== Personal ===
'''How to contact me:'''<br>
 
email: mberkmen at suffolk.edu<br>
=== Education ===
also check out [[Berkmen|my own website!]]<br>
2002- present  Jane Coffin Childs Post-Doctoral Fellow
                Massachusetts Insitute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
                Laboratory of Alan D. Grossman
 
Investigated how the replication machinery and specific regions of the chromosome are positioned inside Bacillus subtilis using fluorescence microscopy and a variety of molecular biological techniques.  Currently exploring the cellular localization of the conjugative transposon ICEBs1.
 
2001 Ph.D., Cellular and Molecular Biology
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madision, WI
                Laboratory of Richard L. Gourse
 
I investigated mechanisms of global regulation of transcription initiation by the small molecule ppGpp in the bacterium Escherichia coli.
 
1995 B.S., Biochemistry
University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, summa cum laude
 
== Research ==


[[Grossman Lab| Back to the Grossman Lab Webpage]]
[[Grossman Lab| Back to the Grossman Lab Webpage]]
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Me at the scope


Bio

Hi. My name is Melanie Barker Berkmen.
I am a former post-doc in Alan Grossman's lab at MIT. I am now an assistant professor at Suffolk University in downtown Boston, where I teach biochemistry and do research with undergraduates. I am very excited to return to the Grossman lab in the summer times as a visiting scholar.

How to contact me:
email: mberkmen at suffolk.edu
also check out my own website!

Back to the Grossman Lab Webpage