Left to Right: Adrienne Garcia (SURP/PREC scholar, Francis lab), Emma Lawler (SURP scholar, Schepartz lab), and Nikki Angelisanti (undergraduate, Schepartz lab). Two weeks ago, Nikki Angelisanti (undergraduate, Schepartz lab) and Emma Lawler (SURP scholar, Schepartz lab) attended the 2025 ACS Western Regional Meeting in San… Read More »C-GEM undergraduates present their research at conferences
Congratulations to Scott Miller for winning the 2026 ACS Gabor A. Somorjai Award for Creative Research in Catalysis. This award recognizes outstanding theoretical, experimental, or developmental research resulting in the advancement of understanding or the application of catalysis. Miller is one of many ACS awardees… Read More »Professor Scott Miller Wins the ACS Gabor A. Somorjai Award for Creative Research in Catalysis
Congratulations to the class of 2025! Leah Roe, Ph.D. (Schepartz Lab) and Kristina Boyko, Ph.D. (Cate Lab) received doctoral degrees, and Rebecca Bernstein (Cate Lab), Katie Fitzgerald (Cate Lab), Martina Boga de Teresa (Cate Lab), Cathy Zhu (Cate Lab), Arjun Garapaty (Schepartz Lab) received Bachelor’s… Read More »C-GEM celebrates spring 2025 graduates
This week, Dr. Alexandra Kent (postdoctoral scholar, Cate lab), Dr. Chandrima Majumdar (postdoctoral scholar, Cate lab), and C-GEM Executive Director Dr. Sarah Smaga all attended the 2025 ASBMB Annual Meeting in Chicago. Alexandra and Chandrima both presented posters and were selected to speak in the… Read More »Two C-GEM postdocs and Executive Director Smaga Present at ASBMB
Congratulations to Arjun Garapaty (undergraduate) and Kaitlyn Szalay (SURP scholar, 2021) for winning NSF GRFP awards. Arjun is graduating from UC Berkeley in May, and Kaitlyn is a PhD candidate in the Chatterjee lab at Boston College. Congratulations to Alex Solivan (graduate student), Isaac Garcia… Read More »C-GEM students receive NSF GRFP award and honorable mentions
Congratulations to C-GEM SURP alumna Anika Accomando for winning a travel award to attend ABRCMS! She presented a poster on the research she did over the summer in Senior Investigator Scott Miller’s lab, mentored by Taylor Dover (graduate student, Yale).
Congratulations to Arjun Garapaty (undergraduate, Schepartz lab) for being awarded a travel award to attend NDiSTEM this past weekend! Arjun did a great job presenting his poster and won a poster award for his work. Well deserved, Arjun!
This week was National Postdoc Appreciation Week! UC Berkeley’s Visiting Scholars and Postdoc Affairs (VSPA) Office organized PostdocFest to celebrate the essential, hard work postdocs do to keep scientific research moving forward. At the event, Carly Schissel (postdoc, UC Berkeley) accepted the Postdoc Achievement Award… Read More »Carly Schissel wins Berkeley Postdoc Achievement Award
Congratulations to Schepartz Lab postdoc Carly Schissel who was awarded a “Best Poster” award at the 2024 Genetic Code Expansion Conference last weekend in Corvallis, Oregon. Well-deserved! Featured image credit: Justin Smith, University Marketing, Oregon State University
Congratulations to Kate Shulgina (Postdoc, UC Berkeley) for being one of 21 people awarded the Don Brown Life Sciences Research Foundation Fellowship! The LSRF award provides three years of support to a named postdoctoral researcher doing life sciences research at a non-profit university or research… Read More »Kate Shulgina is awarded a Life Sciences Research Foundation Fellowship