Chemical Matters, Center for Genetically Encoded Materials

Recap: C-GEM chats careers with scientists in patent law and museum education July 12, 2024 by Jennifer Poo On Wednesday, C-GEM talked to Dr. Diondra Dilworth and Dr. Lee Bishop, both chemists who’ve… Read More »

Recap: C-GEM chats careers with industry chemists March 8, 2023 by Sarah Smaga On Monday, C-GEM hosted two chemists from industry to chat about their career paths: Dr.… Read More »

Demystifying the GRFP: Personal Statements September 15, 2022 by Leah Roe This is the fifth and final post in our Demystifying the GRFP series. See also: Introduction, General… Read More »

Demystifying the GRFP: Research Proposals September 13, 2022 by Leah Roe This is the fourth post in our series "Demystifying the GRFP." See also: Introduction, General Information… Read More »

Demystifying the GRFP: Letters of Recommendation September 6, 2022 by Sarah Smaga This is the third post in our Demystifying the GRFP series. See also: Introduction, General… Read More »

Demystifying the GRFP: General Information and Tips August 30, 2022 by Leah Roe This is the second post in our Demystifying the GRFP series. See also: Introduction, Letters… Read More »

Introduction to “Demystifying the GRFP” August 29, 2022 by Sarah Smaga This is the first post in our Demystifying the GRFP series. See also: General Information… Read More »

Recap: C-GEM Chats Careers with PUI Profs August 9, 2022 by Sarah Smaga Yesterday, C-GEM hosted a “career chat” discussion with two faculty members at primarily undergraduate institutions… Read More »

Applying to Summer Undergraduate Research Programs: Why, How, and More! October 26, 2021 by admin The Center for Genetically Encoded Materials (C-GEM) Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) is one of… Read More »

The Future of the Ribosome and its Role in the Future of the World August 4, 2021 by admin Dina Tekle (left) and Nicole Rivera (right) are undergraduate students in the 2021 C-GEM summer… Read More »

Ribosomes: A vision of the future utilizing antibiotic-ribosome relationships August 4, 2021 by admin Alexis Vanzandt (left) and Kaitlyn Szalay (right) are undergraduate students who participated in the C-GEM… Read More »

PylRS innovation and its contribution to the future of research and medicine August 4, 2021 by admin Yuna Lee (left) and Emma Yin (right) are undergraduate students who participated in the 2021… Read More »

The journey to creating unnatural polymers using the ribosome August 4, 2021 by admin Margaret Adenusi (left) and Alyssa Virola-Iarussi (right) are undergraduate students in the 2021 C-GEM summer… Read More »

Dealing with the unnatural – the MHC way September 20, 2019 by admin Can the antigen recognition process be modulated if the structure of the antigen is modified Read More »

Hachimoji DNA: The Eight-letter Genetic Code September 10, 2019 by admin Hachimoji DNA contains four natural bases (A, T, C, G) and four extra unnatural bases… Read More »

Isolation through unity: creating orthogonal ribosomes through tethered subunit assembly December 19, 2018 by admin A new method resolves cross-assembly between wild type and engineered ribosomes. Read More »

Sequence-defined Multifunctional Polyethers December 14, 2018 by admin For several decades, polyethers, such as polyethylene glycol (PEG) have garnered tremendous interest as functional… Read More »

Cell-free protein synthesis (CFPS) is a powerful way to explore the synthesis of proteins and other polymers outside of the cellular environment October 19, 2018 by admin Cell-free protein synthesis (CFPS) is a powerful way to explore the synthesis of proteins and… Read More »

EvolvR: where precision meets diversity August 29, 2018 by admin C-GEM scientists explain EvolvR technology. Read More »

Mitigating translation arrest caused by D-α-amino acids July 25, 2018 by admin A recent study by Ruben L. Gonzalez Jr. and coworkers provides insight into how to… Read More »

Driving orthogonality between variant pyrrolysyl-tRNA synthetase/tRNA pairs July 24, 2018 by admin Driving orthogonality between variant pyrrolysyl-tRNA synthetase/tRNA pairs By Patrick Ginther In a recent 2018 Nature… Read More »

Ronald Breaker’s “Riboswitches and Translation Control” June 15, 2018 by admin Riboswitches are defined as RNA structures, typically found in the 5’ untranslated region (5’UTR) of… Read More »

Ribosome assembly revealed by cryo-EM April 26, 2018 by admin Ribosome assembly is a remarkably complex cellular process. In the yeast large subunit (60S) alone,… Read More »

Replacement of a histidine by a non-canonical amino acid to generate a dependent organism March 26, 2018 by admin In a recent paper in JACS, Schultz and co-workers present a strategy where replacing a… Read More »

Addition by subtraction February 22, 2018 by admin Posttranslational modifications (PTMs) are responsible for some of the most exotic ribosomally synthesized peptide backbones… Read More »

More peptides with backbone modifications from wild type ribosomes in vitro January 1, 2018 by admin the most recent issue of Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, a paper from Matthew Hartman's lab… Read More »