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 is given the 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
Meghan Pressimone (graduate student, UC Berkeley) and Leah Roe (graduate student, UC Berkeley) both won travel awards to attend the 2024 Protein Society Annual Symposium. Congratulations to both of them!
Congratulations to Chintan Soni (graduate student, Boston College) for winning the Best Poster Award at the 2024 Bioorganic Chemistry Conference GRC!
Last weekend, C-GEM researchers from Berkeley attended the ChemBio in the Bay Area Day at UCSF. This annual conference brings together students from UCSF, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, and UC Santa Cruz for a day of scientific exchange and networking opportunities. Two C-GEM researchers presented:… Read More »Leah Roe wins poster prize at ChemBio in the Bay Area Day
Vincent Chim (graduate student, UC Berkeley) was named a 2024 NSF Graduate Research Fellow. Jess Vance (post-baccalaureate, UC Berkeley) and Adrianna Hudmya (graduate student, U Minnesota) were both given honorable mentions. Congratulations, everyone! Our blog features advice from 2020 NSF Graduate Research Fellow Leah Roe… Read More »C-GEM students receive NSF GRFP award and honorable mentions
Congratulations to Leah Roe (graduate student, UC Berkeley) for winning the ACS Women Chemists Committee Merck Research Award to present her research at an awards symposium during the 2024 Fall ACS meeting.
Three C-GEM graduate students were awarded poster prizes at the Chemistry and Biology of Peptides Gordon Research Conference last week. The theme of the conference was “Exploring Peptides as Natural and Unnatural Scaffolds for Discovery.” Leah Roe (Schepartz Lab) was awarded first place, Isaac Knudson… Read More »Three C-GEM students win poster prizes at Gordon Conference!
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!