Melissa A. Mullen Davis

Originally from New Jersey, Melissa Mullen Davis earned her B.A. in Chemistry and Spanish from Colby College. She worked with Philip Bevilacqua studying nucleic acid biochemistry at The Pennsylvania State University to earn her Ph.D. in Chemistry. Melissa completed a Postdoc at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute where she studied mechanisms of eukaryotic transcription before spending four years at the College of Wooster as a Visiting Assistant Professor.  She is currently an Assistant Professor at Millersville University of Pennsylvania where she teaches Chemistry and Biochemistry.   Her research in the laboratory focuses on how transcription factors are involved in the bacterial stress response.