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
The Center for Genetically Encoded Materials (C-GEM) Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) is one of many undergraduate research experience (URE) programs that allows a student to do research in a lab over the course of a summer and get paid! Having a summer job in… Read More »Applying to Summer Undergraduate Research Programs: Why, How, and More!
Chandrima Majumdar (postdoc, UC Berkeley) was featured in an episode of The Re-Search Podcast. She talked about her research interests and what drew her to C-GEM’s research goals, about what her pathway in science looked like through academia, and about what her ambitions are for… Read More »Chandrima Majumdar featured on The Re-Search Podcast
Congratulations to C-GEM Senior Investigator Rhiju Das and C-GEM Seed Investigator Dave Savage for both being named Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators. HHMI Investigators are awarded $9 million over the course of seven years to do research to further the field of biomedical research.
Dina Tekle (left) and Nicole Rivera (right) are undergraduate students in the 2021 C-GEM summer research program, who are integrating ribosomal mutation data for the purpose of accelerating research via increasing the accessibility of ribosome information. Imagine a world with cleaner air, less waste and… Read More »The Future of the Ribosome and its Role in the Future of the World
Alexis Vanzandt (left) and Kaitlyn Szalay (right) are undergraduate students who participated in the C-GEM summer research program. Their project focused on analyzing and integrating antibiotic-ribosome mutation data to aid in the accessibility of ribosome information and propel future studies. During the Center for Genetically… Read More »Ribosomes: A vision of the future utilizing antibiotic-ribosome relationships
Yuna Lee (left) and Emma Yin (right) are undergraduate students who participated in the 2021 C-GEM summer research program. They are working to create a Pyrrolysine synthetase (PylRS) database, which compiles information on diverse, non-canonical amino acid substrates for the wild type enzyme as well… Read More »PylRS innovation and its contribution to the future of research and medicine