C-GEM published a new paper in Nature Communications in collaboration with the Innovative Genomics Institute. Our researchers developed an RNA language model to predict mutations that could lead to improved structural stability. This model was used to predict mutations that could lead to improved thermostability… Read More »RNA language models predict mutations that improve RNA function (Nat Commun, 2024)
Congratulations to C-GEM SURP alumna Anika Accomando for winning a travel award to attend ABRCMS! She presented a poster on the research she did over the summer in Senior Investigator Scott Miller’s lab, mentored by Taylor Dover (graduate student, Yale).
Congratulations to Arjun Garapaty (undergraduate, Schepartz lab) for being awarded a travel award to attend NDiSTEM this past weekend! Arjun did a great job presenting his poster and won a poster award for his work. Well deserved, Arjun!
In honor of National Pasta Day, join C-GEM as we build polymers out of pasta! C-GEM scientists developed a kid-friendly activity to demonstrate how the sequence of amino acids or other monomers affects the folded structure and properties of a protein. The idea came from… Read More »Celebrate National Pasta Day with C-GEM
On Tuesday, C-GEM talked to Dr. Omer Ad and Dr. Sebasthian Santiago, both former C-GEM chemists who currently work at large pharmaceutical companies. Dr. Ad is a Senior Scientist in the biocatalysis group at Merck, and Dr. Santiago is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Amgen… Read More »Recap: C-GEM Chats Careers with Chemists in Big Pharma
This week was National Postdoc Appreciation Week! UC Berkeley’s Visiting Scholars and Postdoc Affairs (VSPA) Office organized PostdocFest to celebrate the essential, hard work postdocs do to keep scientific research moving forward. At the event, Carly Schissel (postdoc, UC Berkeley) accepted the Postdoc Achievement Award… Read More »Carly Schissel wins Berkeley Postdoc Achievement Award
Carly Schissel (postdoc, UC Berkeley) was featured on an episode of Drug Diaries. She talked about her pathway through academia, how she became interested in chemical biology, and her research as a C-GEM scientist. Listen and watch the episode here:
This week, C-GEM’s seminar series, GEM-inar, featured Dr. Seth Shipman from UCSF and Gladstone Institutes. Dr. Shipman presented his talk titled “The Retron Bacterial Immune System: Antiphage Function and Repurposing for Scaled Genome Engineering”. Sign up for our mailing list to be notified of our… Read More »Professor Seth Shipman presents GEM-inar about bacterial immune systems
This past weekend, C-GEM was one of 36 exhibitors at the 4th Annual Kits Cubed STEM Fair. C-GEM scientists showed up on the front lawn of Oakland Technical High School to teach about the science of biopolymers to almost 4,500 attendees. Our booth featured our… Read More »C-GEM brings polymer science to the Kits Cubed STEM Fair
This week, C-GEM’s seminar series, GEM-inar, featured Dr. Ahmed Badran from Scripps Research Institute. Dr. Badran provided insight into the research his lab is doing in optimizing each element of the genetic code expansion machinery. Sign up for our mailing list to be notified of… Read More »Professor Ahmed Badran presents GEM-inar about genetic code expansion strategies