Understanding and exploiting molecular machines for chemistry, biology, and medicine
A chemical and synthetic biology group at UC Berkeley

Our Research

Repurposing the ribosome to synthesize novel natural products, stabilized proteins, and new materials
Repurposing the ribosome to synthesize novel natural products, stabilized proteins, and new materials
Delivering therapeutic proteins to the cytosol and nucleus - for real
Delivering therapeutic proteins to the cytosol and nucleus - for real
Understanding and exploiting information transfer across cellular membranes
Understanding and exploiting information transfer across cellular membranes
Visualizing organelles at super-resolution for almost forever and in multiple colors
Visualizing organelles at super-resolution for almost forever and in multiple colors

Latest News

December 1, 2023
Congratulations to Carly, the newest recipient of the ACS WCC/Pfizer Emergent Leader Award! She will present her work at an award symposium at the Spring ACS meeting in beautiful New Orleans!!!!!  Bravo Carly on an award so well-deserved!
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November 13, 2023
Congrats to Bryan Hsu who won a a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology oral presentation award at ABRCMS last week!!
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November 13, 2023
Huge shoutout to Cameron Paloutzian who presented her awesome work on ribosomal CC bond model systems at oSTEM this weekend and won an oSTEM Poster Prize. Congratulations!!
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November 13, 2023
The Schepartz lab is excited to welcome two new postdoctoral fellows in the months ahead. Tung Le will be joining us from Wilfred van der Donk’s lab at the University of Illinois and Aurora Alvarez-Buylla will be joining us from the O’Connell lab at Stanford.
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