The Center for Genetically Encoded Materials (C-GEM) Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) is one of many undergraduate research experience (URE) programs that allows a student to do research in a lab over the course of a summer and get paid! Having a summer job in… Read More »Applying to Summer Undergraduate Research Programs: Why, How, and More!
Chandrima Majumdar (postdoc, UC Berkeley) was featured in an episode of The Re-Search Podcast. She talked about her research interests and what drew her to C-GEM’s research goals, about what her pathway in science looked like through academia, and about what her ambitions are for… Read More »Chandrima Majumdar featured on The Re-Search Podcast
Congratulations to C-GEM Senior Investigator Rhiju Das and C-GEM Seed Investigator Dave Savage for both being named Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators. HHMI Investigators are awarded $9 million over the course of seven years to do research to further the field of biomedical research.
Genetic code expansion has tremendous potential to revolutionize peptide, protein, and protein-like therapeutics through the strategic substitution of non-canonical amino acids – or even more exotic monomers – to improve functional diversity, pharmacodynamics, produce antibody-drug conjugates, or even generate novel macrocycles. In all of these… Read More »New paper: Genetic code expansion with high yield and exceptional fidelity
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Congratulations to C-GEM’s first-ever cohort of summer research students! These eight women spent their summer working with graduate students and postdocs on virtual research projects, which you can read more about here: The Future of the Ribosome and its Role in the Future of the… Read More »C-GEM completes inaugural Summer Research Program
Dina Tekle (left) and Nicole Rivera (right) are undergraduate students in the 2021 C-GEM summer research program, who are integrating ribosomal mutation data for the purpose of accelerating research via increasing the accessibility of ribosome information. Imagine a world with cleaner air, less waste and… Read More »The Future of the Ribosome and its Role in the Future of the World
Alexis Vanzandt (left) and Kaitlyn Szalay (right) are undergraduate students who participated in the C-GEM summer research program. Their project focused on analyzing and integrating antibiotic-ribosome mutation data to aid in the accessibility of ribosome information and propel future studies. During the Center for Genetically… Read More »Ribosomes: A vision of the future utilizing antibiotic-ribosome relationships
Yuna Lee (left) and Emma Yin (right) are undergraduate students who participated in the 2021 C-GEM summer research program. They are working to create a Pyrrolysine synthetase (PylRS) database, which compiles information on diverse, non-canonical amino acid substrates for the wild type enzyme as well… Read More »PylRS innovation and its contribution to the future of research and medicine
Margaret Adenusi (left) and Alyssa Virola-Iarussi (right) are undergraduate students in the 2021 C-GEM summer research program, who are analyzing acylation data to identify structure-activity relationships that will enable efficient flexizyme-mediated tRNA misacylation with backbone-altered monomers. Presume a world where pharmaceutical drugs do not expire,… Read More »The journey to creating unnatural polymers using the ribosome