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 graduate research fellowship 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 Peptides GRC
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!
Three C-GEM undergraduates attended the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ARBCMS) in Phoenix, AZ on November 15-18. Hana Kang, Isaac Garcia, and Bryan Hsu — all from the Schepartz lab at Berkeley — received travel awards to support their attendance at the conference.… Read More »C-GEM students attend ABRCMS, Bryan Hsu wins presentation prize
Congratulations to Eva Gerber (graduate student, UC Berkeley) who was awarded the BioEnginuity Impact Grant! The grant provides support to doctoral students in the final two years of their graduate schooling.
Cameron Paloutzian won a “Best Professional Poster” at the Out in STEM conference in Anaheim, CA last weekend. Cameron joined C-GEM as a postbac scholar in the Schepartz Lab at Berkeley in June. She is C-GEM’s inaugural Postbaccalaureate Research and Education Fellow and will spend… Read More »Postbac Cameron Paloutzian wins best professional poster at oSTEM
Three C-GEM students received travel awards to attend the 2023 National Diversity in STEM conference from October 26-28 in Portland, Oregon: Jared Balsz (SURP undergraduate, University of New Mexico), Isaac Garcia (undergraduate, UC Berkeley), and Hana Kang (undergraduate, UC Berkeley). Isaac and Jared presented posters… Read More »C-GEM attends NDiSTEM, undergraduate Isaac Garcia wins poster prize
C-GEM’s Director and PI Alanna Schepartz was named an Arc Institute Innovation Investigator. This award provides $1 million in unrestricted funds over the course of five years as well as access to Arc Institute’s state of the art facilities and additional resources.
Congratulations to Jacob Robbins (postdoc, Yale) for winning a poster award at the 48th National Organic Chemistry Symposium.