Congratulations to Dr. Elizabeth Stone, a postdoc in Michelle Chang’s group at UC Berkeley, who was just awarded a Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund postdoctoral fellowship! The JCC Fellowship provides up to three years of support for research projects focused on the basic biology and… Read More »Dr. Stone awarded Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund postdoctoral fellowship
C-GEM’s peptides and graphics were featured on the cover of ACS Central Science Volume 8, Issue 4. The image comes from a collaboration between the Francis lab and Schepartz lab discovering a method to modify the backbone of peptides using an existing class of peptide… Read More »C-GEM featured on the cover of ACS Central Science
C-GEM graduate student Diondra Dilworth was awarded first place in the Yale Three Minute Thesis competition this year! Diondra is a fourth year graduate student in the Miller Lab at Yale. Her talk was titled The Ribosome: Modifiable Machine – A Chemist’s Approach. Check it… Read More »Graduate student Diondra Dilworth wins Yale 2022 3 minute thesis contest
Graduate student Héctor Torres Vera has been named a 2022 NSF GRFP Fellow. They are a second year in the Schepartz Lab at UC Berkeley. Héctor joins current C-GEM GRFP fellows Diondra Dilworth, Leah Roe, and Taylor Dover. Congratulations!
Led by C-GEM postdoc Josh Walker, this paper describes the installation of thiazoline and thiazole backbone modifications in peptides and proteins, including those containing non-natural monomers. This work is a collaboration between the Schepartz and Francis labs, with contributions from Noah Hamlish, Avery Tytla, and… Read More »New paper: Redirecting RiPP Biosynthetic Enzymes to Proteins and Backbone-Modified Substrates
Congratulations to Dan Brauer (former graduate student, UC Berkeley) who won the NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences Ascending Postdoctoral Research Fellowship! This fellowship supports postdoctoral researchers in mathematics and physical sciences to broaden participation of historically underrepresented groups in MPS fields.
Congratulations to C-GEM Director and PI Alanna Schepartz and C-GEM Seed Investigator Markita Landry who were both named Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigators. CZ Biohub investigators receive $1 million in unrestricted funds over the course of five years and have the opportunity to collaborate with other… Read More »Alanna Schepartz and Markita Landry named CZ Biohub Investigators