Undergraduate researchers David Dumas (Liu lab) and Jaybree Lopez (Loo Lab) explain their research and offer advice to new students in URC-Sciences Research Elevator Pitch videos.  David and Jaybree created the pitches as part of their participation in the 2020 Undergraduate Research Center-Sciences’ (URC-Sciences) Center for Academic & Research Excellence (CARE) Science, Engineering and Math […]

In a new MBI video, Professors David Eisenberg and Jose Rodriguez discuss the promising new therapies they each are developing in their labs. Thanks to collaborations among research teams at the Molecular Biology Institute (MBI), promising new therapies for Alzheimer’s disease and dementia are being developed at UCLA. Guided after its foundation in 1965 by […]

Professor Ken Houk is co-leader of research team that discovered selective photochemically-induced Diels-Alder reactions of nitrogen-containing molecules to give bicyclic products with high selectivity. Houk holds the Saul Winstein Distinguished Research Chair in Organic Chemistry at UCLA. Former Houk group member and Departmental Teacher-Scholar Dr. Shuming Chen (pictured right), now an Assistant Professor of Chemistry and […]

Professor Xiangfeng Duan’s recent Nature perspective article, which provides critical insights into the future of semiconductor technology, is featured in-depth in EE|Times magazine. The article by Don Scansen, titled “Chip Makers Must Learn New Ways to Play ‘D’”, was published in the March 19, 2021, issue of the online electronics industry magazine. The Nature perspective article “Promises and Prospects […]

Congratulations to our current and former students who have received prestigious 2021 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Awards and Honorable Mentions. 2021 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships (GRFP) were awarded to graduate students Nadine Bradbury (Neuhauser group), Ana Bulger (Garg group), Claire Dickerson (Alexandrova group), David Pe (Tolbert group), Kelly Wong (Sletten group), and Laura Wonilowicz […]

This week we shine a spotlight on alumna MIT biologist and president of The Protein Society, Professor Amy Keating (PhD ’98 Houk/García-Garibay groups).  A Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Keating’s research involves working to understand how protein sequences and structures encode interaction specificity. Her lab uses computational […]

BMSB PhD student Nicole Lynn (Torres lab) writes fourth article for ASBMB Today magazine as part of their contributor program.   Lynn’s article titled “I smell a winner: Linking plant olfactory stimuli to genetic regulation – Meet a JBC Herbert Tabor Early Career Investigator Award winner” was featured in the March 15 ,2021 issue of ASBMB Today, the member magazine of […]

92 years ago today, Chemistry 1A was the first class ever taught at UCLA’s Westwood campus. On March 18, 1929, the first chemistry class met at UCLA’s Westwood campus, six months before the official opening of the campus. The 125 students enrolled in Professor Hosmer W. Stone’s Chemistry 1A were the first to receive instruction. The […]