The five-day October 2016 workshop in Mexico will honor of Professor William Gelbart’s 70th birthday. The “Self-assembly from atoms to life” workshop will bring together both young and senior scientists […]

Professor and Vice Chair James Bowie has been named the recipient of the 2017 Anatrace Membrane Protein Award by the Biophysical Society (BPS).  The award recognizes outstanding investigators who make […]

The discovery by Elena Grintsevich, Emil Reisler, and their collaborators from the University of Texas, was recently featured in Nature Cell Biology.  Numerous cellular functions depend on actin filament (F-actin) […]

Members of the department and the UCLA community gathered to celebrate the retirement of biochemistry professor Richard Weiss and MIC director Jane Strouse. More than 60 people attended the reception […]

To conclude the Faculty Spotlight series of our newly tenured faculty (Bouchard, Quinlan & Torres), this week’s feature focuses on Professor Jorge Torres. Torres received his B.S. in Molecular, Cellular, […]

Professors Jim Bowie, Patrick Harran and Yung-Ya Lin have agreed to serve as the new Vice Chairs of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Bowie will serve as Vice Chair […]

The significant invention by Yves Rubin & coworkers was recently reported in the first issue of Chem, a new journal published by Cell Press. Prof. Yves Rubin and his coworkers […]

The American Chemical Society (ACS) paid tribute to the accomplishments of Professor William Gelbart in a special issue of The Journal of Physical Chemistry. The July 7, 2016 issue, published […]