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Eva Gerber named BioEnginuity Fellow

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.

Alanna Schepartz named Arc Institute Innovation Investigator

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.

C-GEM is featured in Nature News

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

Meghan Pressimone named Curci PhD Scholar

Congratulations to Meghan Pressimone (graduate student, UC Berkeley) for being awarded the Curci PhD Scholarship! This Scholarship is awarded by the Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation to provide scholarships and living expenses for the first two years of a student’s PhD in the life sciences.

Former C-GEM graduate student Dan Brauer awarded MPS-Ascend postdoc fellowship

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.