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Professional Services Jan Bergh Barsomian Williams, M.S., Ph.D. Jan received her Master's degree in 1983 from the Veterinary and Animal Sciences Program at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. In 1986, Jan received a Ph.D. in Zoology for theidentification and DNA sequence determination of a repetitive sequence in Acheta domesticus. In 1985, Jan was awarded the university-wide Distinguished Teaching Award. In 1987, after teaching at the University of Massachusetts in Cell Physiology and Histology, and Histology at Northeastern University in Boston, and General Biology at Boston College, began a Post-doctoral fellowship at New England Biolabs. At New England Biolabs, Jan researched restriction-modification systems in bacteria and cloned and sequenced the genes for these systems. While at NEB, Jan contributed to many publications and holds two U.S. Patents with the company. Jan shares authorship on a publication with NEB resident scientist, Richard Roberts, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1993 for gene splicing.
Since 1994, Jan has been a
professor in biology at Elms College in Chicopee, Massachusetts.
Jan teaches courses in Anatomy & Physiology, Genetics, Histology,
Biotechnology and Biology
for non-majors.
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