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!
Congratulations to Dan Brauer (former graduate student, UC Berkeley) who won the NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences Ascending Postdoctoral Research Fellowship! This fellowship supports postdoctoral researchers in mathematics and physical sciences to broaden participation of historically underrepresented groups in MPS fields.
Congratulations to C-GEM Director and PI Alanna Schepartz and C-GEM Seed Investigator Markita Landry who were both named Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigators. CZ Biohub investigators receive $1 million in unrestricted funds over the course of five years and have the opportunity to collaborate with other… Read More »Alanna Schepartz and Markita Landry named CZ Biohub Investigators
Congratulations to C-GEM Senior Investigator Rhiju Das and C-GEM Seed Investigator Dave Savage for both being named Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators. HHMI Investigators are awarded $9 million over the course of seven years to do research to further the field of biomedical research.
A big congratulations to Schepartz lab graduate student Cameron Swenson and Cate lab rotation student Kristina Boyko on their honorable mentions in this year’s NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program! We’re also sending our congratulations to Schepartz lab and C-GEM alum Emma Garcia (Yale B.S. ’19)… Read More »C-GEM students recognized by NSF GRFP
Congratulations to Cameron Swenson (graduate student, UC Berkeley) and Kristina Boyko (graduate student, UC Berkeley) for receiving NSF GRFP honorable mentions!
Congratulations to Schepartz Lab graduate student Leah Roe for being named a finalist for the 2021 Hertz Foundation graduate fellowship! Leah completed her undergraduate degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology at UC Berkeley, then worked at UCSF before joining the UC Berkeley Chemistry PhD program.
C-GEM congratulates Senior Investigator Scott Miller on his election to the National Academies of Sciences! For more, see this article from Yale News.