CMC Team Awards

Chemical Machinery of the Cell Team Awards

Goal: to catalyze breakthroughs in fundamental understanding of chemical processes which underlie the workings of intact living cells that will lead to a new era of advancement in cell biology.

Team Awards 2021

Julien Berro, Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, and Cell Biology, Yale University
Alexander Green, Biomedical Engineering, Boston University
Intercepting the Cell’s Hidden Signals via Peptide-Activated RNA Switches

Caitlin Davis, Chemistry, Yale University
Lars Plate, Chemistry and Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University
Structure-Function of Enzyme Filaments: Regulators of Cell Metabolism in Space and Time

W. Seth Childers, Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh
Stephen Fried, Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University
Ross Wang, Chemistry, Temple University
Toward an Atlas of All Biomolecular Condensates

W. Seth Childers, Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh
Elizabeth Read, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Irvine
Haoran Zhang, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers University
Putting Bacteria to Sleep: Establishing an Artificial Circadian Clock

Maria Kamenetska, Chemistry and Physics, Boston University
Jan-Hendrik Spille, Physics, University of Illinois at Chicago
Lu Wang, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University
The Butterfly Effect in Cellular Phase Separation: from Molecular Interactions to Emergent Behavior

Jan-Hendrik Spille, Physics, University of Illinois at Chicago
Stephen Yi, Biomedical Engineering & Oncology, University of Texas at Austin
Visualizing Inheritance through the Lens of Phase Separation

Stephanie Gupton, Cell Biology and Physiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Alexis Komor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego
Yan Yu, Chemistry, Indiana University
Elucidating the Polygenic Origins of Schizophrenia: Linking Protein Trafficking to Synapse Function

Ronit Freeman, Applied Physical Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Lydia Kisley, Physics and Chemistry, Case Western Reserve University
Laura Sanchez, Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz
Stretching Reality to Discover the (un)Knowns

Stephen Fried, Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University
Tania Lupoli, Chemistry, New York University
Wenjing Wang, Chemistry and Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan
Decoding Host-Pathogen Molecular Cross-talk via Unbiased Multiplex Profiling

Funded by RCSA and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Team Awards 2019

Caitlin Davis, Department of Chemistry, Yale University
Elizabeth Read, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Irvine
Kamil Godula, Department of Chemistry, University of California, San Diego
Metabolite Pools: Where are they, who's using them, and can we?
Funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Alice Soragni, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California, Los Angeles
Matthias Heyden, School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University
ProFIDs: Probes to Fold the Intrinsically Disordered
Funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Bin Zhang, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Brian Liau, Department of Chemistry, Harvard University
G.W. Gant Luxton, Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, University of Minnesota
Reconstructing Time-resolved Single-cell Genome Organization
Funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Seeing the Forces of Life
Rongsheng (Ross) Wang, Department of Chemistry, Temple University
Abhishek Singharoy, School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University
Alison Ondrus, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
Funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Maxim Prigozhin, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, and Department of Applied Physics, Harvard University
Xin Zhang, Department of Chemistry, and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University
Jefferson Chan, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Small-Molecule Cathodophores for Multicolor Electron Microscopy
Funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Ronit Freeman, Department of Applied Physical Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Alexis Komor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego
Davide Donadio, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis
Understanding the Dark Side of the Genome
Funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Team Awards 2018

Abhishek Chatterjee, Department of Chemistry, Boston College
Gulcin Pekkurnaz, Section of Neurobiology, University of California, San Diego
Juan Perilla, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware
Finding Mitochondrial Memory
Funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Kamil Godula, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego
Jennifer Heemstra, Department of Chemistry, Emory University
Abhishek Singharoy, School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University
What does “self” look like?
Funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

A plant cell-based platform to target human proteostasis diseases
Kathryn Haas, Department of Chemistry, Saint Mary’s College
Alice Soragni, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California, Los Angeles
Jing-Ke Weng, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Christian Kaiser, Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University
David Limmer, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Rebecca Voorhees, Division of Biology and Biomedical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
Breaking the central dogma: reverse translation of the proteome
Funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Markita del Carpio Landry, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Gulcin Pekkurnaz, Section of Neurobiology, University of California, San Diego
Jennifer Prescher, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine
Optical Mind Reading
Funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Markita del Carpio Landry, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Jing-Ke Weng, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joshua Widhalm, Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University
Synthetic Organelle Biology: Engineering Photosynthetic Animal Cells
Funded by Research Corporation

Laura Sanchez, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Illinois, Chicago
Judith Su, Colleges of Optical Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, University of Arizona
Identifying and detecting diseases prior to physical presentation of symptoms
Funded by the Flinn Foundation and Research Corporation

Judith Su, Colleges of Optical Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, University of Arizona
Lu Wei, Department of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology
Understanding Biological Systems Using Resonator-Mediated Single-Molecule Raman Detection and Spectroscopy
Funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation