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Professor Scott Miller Wins the ACS Gabor A. Somorjai Award for Creative Research in Catalysis

Congratulations to Scott Miller for winning the 2026 ACS Gabor A. Somorjai Award for Creative Research in Catalysis. This award recognizes outstanding theoretical, experimental, or developmental research resulting in the advancement of understanding or the application of catalysis. Miller is one of many ACS awardees… Read More »Professor Scott Miller Wins the ACS Gabor A. Somorjai Award for Creative Research in Catalysis

NSF C-GEM renewed for Phase IIb

C-GEM has been renewed to continue solving chemistry’s “Holy Grail” problem of how to synthesize truly sequence-defined chemical polymers, oligomeric molecules possessing both a pre-determined, diverse sequence, and a defined length. In the last five years, C-GEM scientists have site-selectively generated C-C bonds in ribosomally… Read More »NSF C-GEM renewed for Phase IIb

Structure of an archaeal ribosome reveals a divergent active site and hibernation factor (Nat Microbiol, 2025)

By Amos Nissley C-GEM researchers identified archaeal ribosomes with highly divergent peptidyl transferase centers (PTC). Cryo-EM structures of the Pyrobaculum calidifontis ribosome revealed that unique archaeal ribosomal protein (rProtein) sequences reorganize the PTC, enabling rRNA sequence variation. Modifying E. coli rProteins to resemble those in… Read More »Structure of an archaeal ribosome reveals a divergent active site and hibernation factor (Nat Microbiol, 2025)

Breakthrough Article: Monitoring monomer-specific acyl–tRNA levels in cells with PARTI (Nucleic Acids Res, 2025)

C-GEM researchers developed a novel method called 3-Prime Adenosine-Retaining Aminoacyl–tRNA Isolation (PARTI), which determines precisely how much of a cellular tRNA is acylated, what it is acylated with, and whether it has been acylated once or twice. PARTI is an essential verification tool for optimizing… Read More »Breakthrough Article: Monitoring monomer-specific acyl–tRNA levels in cells with PARTI (Nucleic Acids Res, 2025)