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.
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.
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.
Congratulations to Jacob Robbins (postdoc, Yale) for winning a poster award at the 48th National Organic Chemistry Symposium.
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
Congratulations to Carly Schissel (postdoc, UC Berkeley) who won a poster award for presenting her work at the 2022 Chemistry and Biology of Peptides GRC!
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.
Professors Mark Walker and Yi He at the University of New Mexico were awarded an inaugural Partnerships for Research and Education in Chemistry (PREC) grant by the NSF to collaborate with C-GEM. This grant will allow C-GEM to broaden participation of students served by the… Read More »UNM professors Mark Walker and Yi He awarded NSF partnership award with C-GEM
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
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