C-GEM is looking for our next Education, Outreach, and Diversity Manager! The position is based at UC Berkeley, where the ideal candidate will work closely with Director Schepartz and Managing Director Smaga. The Education, Outreach, and Diversity Manager manages education and outreach programs of the… Read More »Call for applications: Education, Outreach, and Diversity Manager
Three C-GEM graduate students were awarded poster prizes at the Chemistry and Biology of Peptides Gordon Research Conference last week. The theme of the conference was “Exploring Peptides as Natural and Unnatural Scaffolds for Discovery.” Leah Roe (Schepartz Lab) was awarded first place, Isaac Knudson… Read More »Three C-GEM students win poster prizes at Gordon Conference!
C-GEM postdoc Carly Schissel (Schepartz Lab) has received a Pfizer Emergent Leader Award and will present in a special session at the Spring ACS meeting in New Orleans. Congrats, Carly!
C-GEM collaborated with the scientific discovery game Eterna to launch an online course about RNA structure, dynamics, and biology. The course is free, open to anyone, and combines videos, text, and interactive Eterna puzzles to reinforce core concepts about RNA. The first module focuses on… Read More »C-GEM and Eterna launch online RNA course
Three C-GEM undergraduates attended the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ARBCMS) in Phoenix, AZ on November 15-18. Hana Kang, Isaac Garcia, and Bryan Hsu — all from the Schepartz lab at Berkeley — received travel awards to support their attendance at the conference.… Read More »C-GEM students attend ABRCMS, Bryan Hsu wins presentation prize!
Cameron Paloutzian won a “Best Professional Poster” at the Out in STEM conference in Anaheim, CA last weekend. Cameron joined C-GEM as a postbac scholar in the Schepartz Lab at Berkeley in June. She is C-GEM’s inaugural Postbaccalaureate Research and Education Fellow and will spend… Read More »Postbac Cameron P. wins best professional poster at oSTEM!
Three C-GEM students received travel awards to attend the 2023 National Diversity in STEM conference from October 26-28 in Portland, Oregon: Jared Balsz (SURP undergraduate, University of New Mexico), Isaac Garcia (undergraduate, UC Berkeley), and Hana Kang (undergraduate, UC Berkeley). Isaac and Jared presented posters… Read More »C-GEM attends NDiSTEM, Isaac Garcia wins poster prize!
This week, Managing Director Sarah Smaga attended the National Organization of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE) conference in New Orleans, LA. In addition to connecting with new and old colleagues, Dr. Smaga advertised opportunities at C-GEM for undergraduates, postbacs, and postdocs, and served as… Read More »C-GEM attends the 2023 NOBCChE Conference in New Orleans!
This summer, C-GEM hosted our largest cohort of Summer Undergraduate Research Program Scholars yet! We hosted ten scholars at five C-GEM institutions: Berkeley, Boston College, Georgia Tech, Minnesota, and Yale. SURP students hailed from across the United States, including Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Puerto Rico, and California.… Read More »C-GEM hosts third cohort of summer undergrads
Check out this Berkeley News article about how three recent papers from C-GEM advance our goal of repurposing the translational machinery to make new polymers. And read the papers 2. Expanding the Substrate Scope of Pyrrolysyl-Transfer RNA Synthetase Enzymes to Include Non-α-Amino Acids in Vitro… Read More »C-GEM research featured in Berkeley News!