Three C-GEM undergraduates attended the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ARBCMS) in Phoenix, AZ on November 15-18. Hana Kang, Isaac Garcia, and Bryan Hsu — all from the Schepartz lab at Berkeley — received travel awards to support their attendance at the conference.… Read More »C-GEM students attend ABRCMS, Bryan Hsu wins presentation prize
Congratulations to Eva Gerber (graduate student, UC Berkeley) who was awarded the BioEnginuity Impact Grant! The grant provides support to doctoral students in the final two years of their graduate schooling.
Cameron Paloutzian won a “Best Professional Poster” at the Out in STEM conference in Anaheim, CA last weekend. Cameron joined C-GEM as a postbac scholar in the Schepartz Lab at Berkeley in June. She is C-GEM’s inaugural Postbaccalaureate Research and Education Fellow and will spend… Read More »Postbac Cameron Paloutzian wins best professional poster at oSTEM
Three C-GEM students received travel awards to attend the 2023 National Diversity in STEM conference from October 26-28 in Portland, Oregon: Jared Balsz (SURP undergraduate, University of New Mexico), Isaac Garcia (undergraduate, UC Berkeley), and Hana Kang (undergraduate, UC Berkeley). Isaac and Jared presented posters… Read More »C-GEM attends NDiSTEM, undergraduate Isaac Garcia wins poster prize
C-GEM’s Director and PI Alanna Schepartz was named an Arc Institute Innovation Investigator. This award provides $1 million in unrestricted funds over the course of five years as well as access to Arc Institute’s state of the art facilities and additional resources.
This week, Managing Director Sarah Smaga attended the National Organization of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE) conference in New Orleans, LA. In addition to connecting with new and old colleagues, Dr. Smaga advertised opportunities at C-GEM for undergraduates, postbacs, and postdocs, and served as… Read More »C-GEM attends the 2023 NOBCChE Conference in New Orleans
This summer, C-GEM hosted our largest cohort of Summer Undergraduate Research Program Scholars yet! We hosted ten scholars at five C-GEM institutions: Berkeley, Boston College, Georgia Tech, Minnesota, and Yale. SURP students hailed from across the United States, including Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Puerto Rico, and California.… Read More »C-GEM hosts third cohort of summer undergrads
Congratulations to Jacob Robbins (postdoc, Yale) for winning a poster award at the 48th National Organic Chemistry Symposium.
One common way to isolate ribosomes produced in vivo is by installing an MS2 affinity tag in the 16S or 23S ribosomal RNA. RNA tags in the 23S rRNA are typically installed into an extended helix 98, as this has no discernible effect on growth… Read More »New paper: Interactions between terminal RNA helices affect the stability of the Escherichia coli large ribosomal subunit
C-GEM’s science was written about in a Nature Technology Feature about genetic code expansion. In particular, the article featured collaborative work from the Chatterjee lab and Schepartz lab discovering a tRNA synthetase from Methanomethylophilus alvus that can accept non-α-amino acids bio-orthogonally in E. coli and… Read More »C-GEM is featured in Nature News