This is the second post in our Demystifying the GRFP series. See also: Introduction, Letters of Recommendation, Research Proposal, Personal Statement Welcome and congratulations on deciding to apply for GRFP! Although a daunting process, I personally felt I learned a lot about grant writing and… Read More »Demystifying the GRFP: General Information and Tips
This is the first post in our Demystifying the GRFP series. See also: General Information and Tips, Letters of Recommendation, Research Proposal, Personal Statement Welcome to a new blog post series from C-GEM focused on the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP).… Read More »Introduction to “Demystifying the GRFP”
We’re excited to announce that Héctor Torres Vera has been named one of 51 2022 HHMI Gilliam Fellows! Héctor is a rising third year graduate student in the Schepartz Lab at Berkeley. In addition to their research, they are an Editor and contributor to the… Read More »Graduate student Héctor Torres Vera named 2022 HHMI Gilliam Fellow!
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!
C-GEM congratulates Senior Investigator Scott Miller on his election to the National Academies of Sciences! For more, see this article from Yale News.
Alanna Schepartz will be awarded the Ralph F. Hirschmann Award in Peptide Chemistry at the March meeting of the American Chemical Society. The award recognizes an individual who has made “outstanding contributions in the chemistry, biochemistry, or biophysics of peptides.” It is presented by the… Read More »Director Schepartz wins ACS award for peptide chemistry
Scott Millerhas been chosenfor a fellowship by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. He will be delivering a series of lectures about his research across Japan.