Congratulations to Dr. Elizabeth Stone, a postdoc in Michelle Chang’s group at UC Berkeley, who was just awarded a Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund postdoctoral fellowship! The JCC Fellowship provides up to three years of support for research projects focused on the basic biology and… Read More »Dr. Stone awarded Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund postdoctoral fellowship!
C-GEM graduate student Diondra Dilworth was awarded first place in the Yale Three Minute Thesis competition this year! Diondra is a fourth year graduate student in the Miller Lab at Yale. Her talk was titled The Ribosome: Modifiable Machine – A Chemist’s Approach. Check it… Read More »Graduate student Diondra Dilworth wins Yale 2022 3MT contest
Graduate student Héctor Torres Vera has been named a 2022 NSF GRFP Fellow. They are a second year in the Schepartz Lab at UC Berkeley. Héctor joins current C-GEM GRFP fellows Diondra Dilworth, Leah Roe, and Taylor Dover. Congratulations!
Led by C-GEM postdoc Josh Walker, this paper describes the installation of thiazoline and thiazole backbone modifications in peptides and proteins, including those containing non-natural monomers. This work is a collaboration between the Schepartz and Francis labs, with contributions from Noah Hamlish, Avery Tytla, and… Read More »New paper: Redirecting RiPP Biosynthetic Enzymes to Proteins and Backbone-Modified Substrates
Genetic code expansion has tremendous potential to revolutionize peptide, protein, and protein-like therapeutics through the strategic substitution of non-canonical amino acids – or even more exotic monomers – to improve functional diversity, pharmacodynamics, produce antibody-drug conjugates, or even generate novel macrocycles. In all of these… Read More »New paper: genetic code expansion with high yield and exceptional fidelity
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Congratulations to C-GEM’s first-ever cohort of summer research students! These eight women spent their summer working with graduate students and postdocs on virtual research projects, which you can read more about here: The Future of the Ribosome and its Role in the Future of the… Read More »C-GEM’s inaugural Summer Research Program wraps!
A big congratulations to Schepartz lab graduate student Cameron Swenson and Cate lab rotation student Kristina Boyko on their honorable mentions in this year’s NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program! We’re also sending our congratulations to Schepartz lab and C-GEM alum Emma Garcia (Yale B.S. ’19)… Read More »C-GEM students recognized by NSF GRFP
A warm congratulations to Fred Ward and Zoe Watson who completed their PhDs in the Cate lab at UC Berkeley this past year. Check out some of their thesis work below:
Congratulations to Schepartz Lab graduate student Leah Roe for being named a finalist for the 2021 Hertz Foundation graduate fellowship! Leah completed her undergraduate degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology at UC Berkeley, then worked at UCSF before joining the UC Berkeley Chemistry PhD program.