Kathleen Becker Email & Phone Number

Portland, ME, US

Biddeford, ME, US

Biddeford, ME, US

Part-time adjunct lecturer for Genetics in the Department of Biological Sciences and College of Medicine at the University of New England. I participated in the team-taught Osteopathic Medical Knowledge course for first year medical students where I organized the genetic curriculum, developed lecturers, set pre-week and weekly learning objectives, and.

Orono, ME, US

• Instructor/Lecturer: Organized and co-taught a graduate course on osteoporosis in the department of Food Science and Human Nutrition.
• Developed the course curriculum in conjunction with the co-instructor, Dr. Clifford Rosen, that was compatible for course taught both in person and remotely
• Organized the syllabus with internal and external speakers
• Designed lectures on novel topics and wrote/graded exams
• Guided students through a semester long project with a student-developed research question and proposed clinical study Doctoral Thesis Committee Member: Advised interdepartmental doctoral student on course curriculum.

South Portland, ME, US

Microbiology lecture and laboratory instructor in the department of Biological Sciences.

Portland, ME, US

Immunology laboratory instructor in the Department of Biological Sciences.

Portland, Maine, US

• Osteoporosis affects over 10 million people, causing 1.5 million osteoporosis-related fractures per year. Not only does fracture-related care result in a significant drain on our healthcare system costing of over $12.
• Generated a floxed Dock7 mouse model using the CRISPR/Cas9 system in single cell embryos in a successful collaboration with biotechnology company
• Developed genotyping strategies to screen founders for identification of targeted genomic insertions by genotyping, enzymatic digestion, and sequencing
• Spearheaded new laboratory breeding strategies for the development of transgenic mouse models
• Utilized our novel transgenic mouse model to assess body composition and bone density, isolated tissues for gene and protein expression studies, and developed in vitro models to study Dock7 and bone
• Actively managed Biosafety and Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee protocols

Madison, WI, US

• RANKL is expressed in multiple cell types and plays a role in many biological processes including osteoclast differentiation, mammary gland development with lactation, thymus development and immune cell function.
• Generated ChIP- and RNA-sequencing data sets to identify novel regulatory regions controlling gene expression
• Manipulated and modified BAC clones using recombineering for generation of BAC clone transgenic mice
• Established BAC clone transgenic mouse lines for in vivo assessment of gene expression through reporter activity
• Published one first author manuscript and other additional publications
• Mentored 3 graduate students

Lewisburg, PA, US

• Lipoxygenases are non-heme iron containing proteins that catalyze the dioxygenasetion of polyunsaturated fatty acids in both plants and animals. Mammilian lipoxygenases are involved in the formation of leukotrienes and.
• Generated enzymatic products from soybean lipoxygenase I
• Derivitized enzymatic products by adding an additional chiral centers to create diastereomers
• Utilized NMR and GC/MS were used to monitor product derivatization
• Published two manuscripts
• Received an oral presentation at the Kalman Research Symposium

Rahway, New Jersey, US

Investigated polysaccharides fro vaccine development

Ph.D., Molecular Biology/Biochemistry

The Delta Program: Research, Teaching, And Learning, Stem Education

B.S., Biochemistry/Cell Biology