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
Margaret Adenusi (left) and Alyssa Virola-Iarussi (right) are undergraduate students in the 2021 C-GEM summer research program, who are analyzing acylation data to identify structure-activity relationships that will enable efficient flexizyme-mediated tRNA misacylation with backbone-altered monomers. Presume a world where pharmaceutical drugs do not expire,… Read More »The journey to creating unnatural polymers using the ribosome
C-GEM will be hosting summer undergraduate researchers in 2020, and our application is now live! Apply here, or help spread the word to undergraduates across the country who are interested in working at the interface of interface of chemistry, biology, and materials to design genetically-encoded… Read More »The C-GEM 2021 Summer Research Program Application is Live!
It’s official – the NSF has selected C-GEM as one of two Phase I Centers to advance to Phase II of the Centers for Chemical Innovation program, receiving $20M in funding over the next five years. You can check out coverage of the Phase II… Read More »C-GEM receives $20M in NSF funding
C-GEM congratulates Senior Investigator Scott Miller on his election to the National Academies of Sciences! For more, see this article from Yale News.
An article about C-GEM appeared in Yale News: Scientists take big step towards producing novel polymers in living cells.
A deep dive into the tools that make up C-GEM’s scientific teamwork software infrastructure.
Can the antigen recognition process be modulated if the structure of the antigen is modified
Hachimoji DNA contains four natural bases (A, T, C, G) and four extra unnatural bases (P, Z, S, B).
Alanna Schepartz will be awarded the Ralph F. Hirschmann Award in Peptide Chemistry at the March meeting of the American Chemical Society. The award recognizes an individual who has made “outstanding contributions in the chemistry, biochemistry, or biophysics of peptides.” It is presented by the… Read More »Director Schepartz wins ACS award for peptide chemistry