Jump to Navigation
Home

Search form

  • Home
  • About us
    • Contact Us
    • Feedback
    • Maps, Locations, and Parking
    • Directory
      • Faculty
      • Emeriti and Former Faculty
      • Postdoctoral
      • Staff
      • All people
    • Diversity Statement
    • History
    • Newsletter
    • Endowed Chairs
  • Graduate
    • How to Apply
    • Chemistry Graduate Program
    • Biochemistry, Molecular and Structural Biology (BMSB) Graduate Program
    • Master of Applied Chemical Sciences - MACS
    • Detailed Degree Requirements
    • Awards and Fellowships
    • Current Graduate Students
    • Graduate FAQ
  • Undergraduate
    • How to Apply
    • Prospective Students
    • Current Students
    • Enrollment Assistance
    • Course Websites
    • Student Resources
    • Undergraduate FAQ
    • Undergraduate Courses
    • Scholarships and Awards
    • Research Opportunities
  • Faculty & Research
    • Recent Publications
    • Interdisciplinary Research
    • Analytical Chemistry
    • Biochemistry
    • Bioenergy and the Environment
    • Biophysics
    • Chemical Biology
    • Inorganic Chemistry
    • Materials and Nanoscience
    • Metabolism, Aging and Development
    • Organic Chemistry
    • Physical Chemistry
    • Structural and Computational Biology
    • Systems Biology and Biological Regulation
    • Theory and Computation
  • Health & Safety
    • Emergency
    • Safety Videos
    • Safety Training Courses
    • Safety Documents & Data
    • Personal Protective Equipment
    • Print Safety Labels
  • Seminars
    • Calendar
    • Upcoming Seminars
    • Past Seminars
    • Past Events
    • Distinguished Lecture Series
  • Giving
    • Make a Match
    • Our Donors
    • #BlackinChem Lectureship Fund
    • Alumni
    • Atkinson-West Fund
    • Boyer Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship
    • Centennial Collaboratory Donor Wall
    • Dafni Amirsakis Fund
    • Department Discretionary Fund
    • Educational Innovation Fund
    • Glenn Seaborg Symposium
    • Graduate Student Recruitment Fund
    • John D. Roberts Fund
    • Organic Colloquium & Named Lecture
    • Our Endowed Chairs
    • Paul Boyer Teacher Scholar Fund
    • Physical Chemistry Seminar Fund
    • Research Seminar Fund
    • Richard E. Dickerson Biochemistry Seminar Fund
    • Roberts Smith Graduate Award
    • Verne Schumaker Fund
  • Feedback

You are here

Home » Welcoming Professor Sletten

News, Events, and Featured

  • News
  • Events
  • Featured
  • Seminars

Quick Links

  • News
  • Events
  • Calendar
  • Map & Location
  • Contact Us
  • Research Facilities
  • Instructional Division
  • Internal Resources

Welcoming Professor Sletten

 The UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry would like to welcome Ellen Sletten, who will join our department as an Assistant Professor in 2016.   Prof. Sletten's research will focus on the areas of Analytical Chemistry, Biophysics, Materials & Nanoscience, and Organic Chemistry.  She will take up residency in the department in January 2016. 
Prof. Sletten received her B.S. in Chemistry from Stonehill College in 2006 where she worked in the laboratory of Prof. Louis Liotta on the synthesis of alkaloid glycosidase inhibitors. During her undergraduate education, she also performed research in Prof. Kara Bren’s group at the University of Rochester and Prof. Neil Thomas’s group at the University of Nottingham. Prof. Sletten pursued her Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley with Prof. Carolyn Bertozzi where she received an ACS Division of Organic Chemistry Fellowship. Her thesis work involved the optimization and development of bioorthogonal chemistries and their subsequent applications in labeling living systems. Upon graduation in 2011, Prof. Sletten joined the laboratory of Prof. Tim Swager at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow where she worked with soft fluorous materials for use in fluorescent sensors.  The Sletten Group will exploit the unique properties of fluorinated materials to develop new diagnostic and therapeutic technologies. Research within the group will involve an interdisciplinary mix of organic synthesis, fluorous chemistry, chemical biology, nanomedicine, supramolecular chemistry, polymer synthesis, photophysics and pharmacology. Through the course of our work, we will develop new light-activated theranostics, efficient polymeric drug delivery scaffolds, and novel chemistries for the bioorthogonal chemical reporter strategy. Additionally, we will gain fundamental insight into the intriguing properties of perfluorinated compounds and their interactions with biological systems.  

 

The UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry

General Information   •   Graduate Office   •   Undergraduate Office   •   Chair's Office   •   Webmaster
607 Charles E. Young Drive East   Box 951569, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1569
Tel: (310) 825-4219   Fax: (310) 206-4038

University of California © 2022 UC Regents. All Rights Reserved.

Connect with us Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Instagram