Carly Schissel named Pfizer Emergent Leader
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!
Sarah Smaga
C-GEM and Eterna launch online RNA course
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
C-GEM students attend ABRCMS, Bryan Hsu wins presentation prize!
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!
Postbac Cameron P. wins best professional poster at oSTEM!
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!
C-GEM attends NDiSTEM, Isaac Garcia wins poster prize!
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!
C-GEM attends the 2023 NOBCChE Conference in New Orleans!
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!
C-GEM hosts third cohort of summer undergrads
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
New paper: Interactions between terminal RNA helices affect the stability of the Escherichia coli large ribosomal subunit
One common way to isolate ribosomes produced in vivo is by installing an MS2 affinity tag in the 16S or 23S ribosomal RNA. RNA tags in the 23S rRNA are typically installed into an extended helix 98, as this has no discernible effect on growth… Read More »New paper: Interactions between terminal RNA helices affect the stability of the Escherichia coli large ribosomal subunit
New paper: Atomistic simulations of the E. coli ribosome provide selection criteria for translationally active substrates
There is great current interest in exploiting ribosome chemistry to generate sequence-defined chemical polymers that extend beyond L-⍺-amino acids to new backbone modifications and polymerization chemistries. Although the E. coli ribosome tolerates certain non-L-⍺-amino acids in vitro, few structural insights are available, and the boundary… Read More »New paper: Atomistic simulations of the E. coli ribosome provide selection criteria for translationally active substrates
C-GEM research featured in Berkeley News!
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!
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