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.
Vincent Chim (graduate student, UC Berkeley) was named a 2024 NSF Graduate Research Fellow. Jess Vance (post-baccalaureate, UC Berkeley) and Adrianna Hudmya (graduate student, U Minnesota) were both given honorable mentions. Congratulations, everyone! Our blog features advice from 2020 NSF Graduate Research Fellow Leah Roe… Read More »C-GEM students receive NSF graduate research fellowship and honorable mentions
Congratulations to Leah Roe (graduate student, UC Berkeley) for winning the ACS Women Chemists Committee Merck Research Award to present her research at an awards symposium during the 2024 Fall ACS meeting.
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.