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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'''<br>
Massachusetts Insitute of Technology, Cambridge, MA<br>
Laboratory of Alan D. Grossman
 
I have 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.  I am currently exploring the cellular localization of the conjugative transposon ICEBs1 DNA and conjugation machinery.
 
 
'''(2001) Ph.D., Cellular and Molecular Biology'''<br>
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madision, WI<br>
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'''<br>
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

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