Michael Becker

Bldg: 436 Room: D005 E-mail: mbecker@anl.gov Phone: (630) 252-0673 Fax: (630) 252-0667

> Education:

• 1990, Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Biochemistry
• 1983, B.A., University of Delaware, Newark, DE, Biology

> Professional Experience:

2006-present	Crystallographer, Biosciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory
2005-2006	Associate Biophysicist, Biology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory
1999-2005	Assistant Biophysicist, Biology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory
1996-1999	Senior Research Associate, Biology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory
1994-1996	Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
1990-1994	Postdoctoral Fellow, Abteilung für Strukturforschung, Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie, Martinsried, Germany

> Honors/Awards:

• Cum Laude graduate of University of Delaware, 1983
• National Science Foundation “Program for Long- and Medium-Term Research at Foreign Centers of Excellence” Stipend (1990 – 1991)

> Research Interests:

1. X-ray crystallography of membrane proteins and of cell-surface proteins
2. Methods in membrane-protein structure determination, including using X-ray Free Electron Lasers to determine structures of membrane proteins in two-dimensional crystals
3. Malaria
4. Photosynthesis/Solar Energy

For more details and publications, please see:  http://www.gmca.aps.anl.gov/mbecker

> Research Group:

• GM/CA-CAT