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
Miller Fellow Carly Schissel’s (postdoc, UC Berkeley) writing was featured in the most recent edition of the Miller Institute newsletter. She wrote about her research interests and how her academic path led her to C-GEM’s science. Read it here!
Congratulations to Kate Shulgina (Postdoc, UC Berkeley) for being one of 21 people awarded the Don Brown Life Sciences Research Foundation Fellowship! The LSRF award provides three years of support to a named postdoctoral researcher doing life sciences research at a non-profit university or research… Read More »Kate Shulgina is awarded a Life Sciences Research Foundation Fellowship
Meghan Pressimone (graduate student, UC Berkeley) and Leah Roe (graduate student, UC Berkeley) both won travel awards to attend the 2024 Protein Society Annual Symposium. Congratulations to both of them!
On Wednesday, C-GEM talked to Dr. Diondra Dilworth and Dr. Lee Bishop, both chemists who’ve both found careers away from the bench. Dr. Dilworth is a Science Advisor working with patent lawyers at Goodwin Procter LLP, and Dr. Bishop is the Biotech & Design Lead… Read More »Recap: C-GEM chats careers with scientists in patent law and museum education
Congratulations to Chintan Soni (graduate student, Boston College) for winning the Best Poster Award at the 2024 Bioorganic Chemistry Conference GRC!
Welcome to the 2024 cohort of Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) scholars! This year we are hosting eight scholars across six C-GEM labs on the University of California Berkeley, University of Minnesota, Yale, and Cornell campuses. Our SURP students hail from California, New York, and… Read More »C-GEM welcomes the fourth cohort of summer undergraduates!
C-GEM Executive Director Sarah Smaga represented the scientific community with 24 other ASBMB members to advocate for supporting and funding basic science research in Washington D.C.. Smaga and others met with elected officials and their staffers to stress the importance of research funding. Read more… Read More »C-GEM represents on Capitol Hill
C-GEM has hired Jennifer Poo as the Education and Outreach Manager. The EO manager oversees the implementation and evaluation of existing C-GEM programs and contributes to the development of new programming. Programming includes externally focused community outreach as well as internal programs for C-GEM members.