On March 11, 2019, Professor Daan Frenkel (University of Cambridge) gave the 5th annual Carolyn & Charles Knobler Lecture. The well-attended lecture, titled “Counting the Uncountable:Entropy Beyond Boltzmann”, was followed by a question-and-answer period and then by a reception in the Young Hall Cafe Commons. Select photos from the event are below. The Carolyn and […]

Professor Paul Weiss has been named a 2019 Fellow of the Materials Research Society (MRS) in recognition of his ground-breaking nanoscience research. Weiss holds a UC Presidential Chair and is a distinguished professor of chemistry & biochemistry and materials science & engineering. He was selected for the honor in recognition of his “pioneering nanoscience advances, […]

A team led by Ken Houk has discovered a naturally occurring reaction in enzymes which could lead to new biological activities and pharmaceutical applications. Houk’s collaboration with two former group members and researchers at Nanjing University led to the documentation of the first enzymes proven to catalyze [6+4] cycloadditions. The ability of nature to make […]

Their photo is featured in the March 7, 2018 UCLA Newsroom article about the Center for Diverse Leadership in Science’s inaugural fellows. Professor Justin Caram is an assistant professor of chemistry & biochemistry and a mentor for the program and Dayanni Bhagwandin is a graduate student in Professor Yves Rubin‘s group and one of the inaugural […]

The Houk group hosted the CCHF Virtual Symposium 13 sponsored by the Center for Selective C-H Functionalization (CHF) on March 5, 2019. Professor Ken Houk’s group hosted the live virtual symposium at UCLA in a conference room in the Molecular Sciences Building. The virtual symposium, projected on to a screen via YouTube, featured talks by Professor Olivier […]

The team has discovered an unexpected organization of antimicrobial molecules which amplify inflammation. Professor Gerard Wong, a member of the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, and the UCLA Department of Bioengineering, was the study’s senior author. Dr. Ernest Lee, the study’s co-first author, a medical student in the UCLA–Caltech Medical Scientist Training Program, completed his Ph.D. […]

Chemistry & Biochemistry staff and student researchers were recognized at the 2nd Annual UCLA EH&S Safety Forward Awards Luncheon on February 13, 2019. 2018 Initiative Nominee (I.N.) for Safety Awards were presented to graduate student Devin Brandt (Profs. William Gelbart and Chuck Knobler labs), staff member Maria Dimaano-Salanga (Lab Support under Dr. Maher Henary), and […]

Nobel Laureate Sir Fraser Stoddart visited UCLA to give two Mautner Lectures, one on his life and career and one on mechanical innovations of the past century. On November 27, 2018, Stoddart gave his Mautner Public Lecture titled “My Journey to Stockholm” after which the Mautner Graduate Awards were presented to four Chemistry & Biochemistry graduate […]