Last weekend, C-GEM exhibited at the Tri-Valley Innovation Expo at the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton, CA. Postdocs Alexandra Kent and Preeta Pratakshya, Graduate students Noah Hamlish and Cameron Swenson, and undergraduate Cathy Zhu joined Executive Director Sarah Smaga to share C-GEM research. Over 300… Read More »C-GEM talks biopolymers at the Tri-Valley Innovation Expo
C-GEM collaborated with the scientific discovery game Eterna to launch an online course about RNA structure, dynamics, and biology. The course is free, open to anyone, and combines videos, text, and interactive Eterna puzzles to reinforce core concepts about RNA. The first module focuses on… Read More »C-GEM and Eterna launch online RNA course
Last Saturday, C-GEM students, postdocs, and Eterna players spent a day in the sun at the Science Bonanza at Cal Day, a day-long celebration for admitted undergraduates and their families. Science Bonanza was organized by Science at Cal and brought together outreach from across disciplines… Read More »C-GEM celebrates Cal Day at the Science Bonanza
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 3 minute thesis contest
A deep dive into the tools that make up C-GEM’s scientific teamwork software infrastructure.
Our fourth podcast features C-GEM Seed Investigator Omer Ad discussing recent research demonstrating the ribosomal translation of benzoic acids.
An enrichment workshop for New Haven high schoolers.
In our third podcast, Jeffrey Townsend interviews Rhiju Das, an Associate Professor of Biochemistry at Stanford University and our newest C-GEM member.
In our second podcast, Jeffrey Townsend interviews Alanna Schepartz, the head of C-GEM.
In our first podcast, Ellen Kan, staff reporter at the Yale Daily News, interviews Jeffrey Townsend about the new Center for Genetically Encoded Materials. We cover what the Center is, what it will be doing, and what technologies it could lead to. This interview was… Read More »Ellen Kan of the Yale Daily News interviews Jeffrey Townsend