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Author: Benjamin Kirkup

My microbiology education began primarily at a summer camp for oceanography, in the mornings. I proceeded to take a microbiology laboratory techniques class in high school. I did a short high school thesis on the ecological impact of food additives with regard to oral bacteria, and worked at SUNY Stony Brook on the ecology of bacteriocins. My undergraduate education was at Harvard. I did an undergraduate thesis, ecology but not particular to bacteria, and during my masters degree, phylogeny of bacterial RuBisCO among other things. My Ph.D. was at Yale University, the ecology of bacteriocins - continued. After a summer instructing undergraduate biology laboratory, I joined Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT as a postdoctoral associate and had an opportunity to lecture on environmental microbiology. Working primarily on marine ecology, I also included some work on the bacteriocins. Following this, I joined the Army to help start a department which studies combat wound infections. Most recently, I have joined the Naval Research Laboratory as a research microbiologist.

Bad-omics

By Benjamin Kirkup   Posted in Information and Resources Miscellaneous
Posted on March 4, 2015March 25, 2015

This is a short commentary on -omes, in the spirit of reminding. -omes are the collections of all things in a class associated with an instance of another class. For example, all the genes in a single organism is the ‘genome.’ Because of a variety of complexities in the definition of a gene since 1920, …

Multiple artificial sweeteners induce glucose intolerance: Prima facie, the science is sound

By Benjamin Kirkup   Posted in Miscellaneous News
Posted on September 24, 2014March 25, 2015

N. b. Should it appear presumptuous, I was publicly prompted to write this. I loathe to link to the original post by Locwin, but must for my response to make sense. A recent blog post (Sept 22, 2014; accessed Sept 24, 2014) by Ben Locwin addresses in the title and first line a study in Nature (Suez …

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