Professor Paul Weiss discussed the future of nanoscience and nanotechnology in an interview with science journalist Robyn Williams on the popular radio program. The Australian Broadcasting Corp’s “The Science Show” is considered by many to be the world’s best science broadcast program. Weiss was interviewed for the one-hour radio show when Williams recently visited the […]

University of Kentucky Professor Emeritus Robert Guthrie, former Cram postdoc and UCLA chemistry lecturer, died on February 13, 2018 at the age of 81. After graduating from high school, Guthrie went to Oberlin College where he began his serious study of chemistry under the tutelage of famed chemical educator Professor J. Arthur Campbell.  After receiving […]

The first four women to receive PhDs from the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry were honored at the 2018 Departmental Awards Ceremony on April 9th. The Inaugural Alumni Legacy Awards were presented to Dr. Audree Fowler (BS ’56, Ph.D. ’63), Dr. Atsuko Fujimoto (Ph.D. ’63), Dr. Margaret Holzer (Ph.D. ’64), and Dr. Kate Murashige […]

BMSB PhD student Yuxi Liu and her mentor Professor Todd Yeates have reported an important new advance in the field of cryo-electron microscopy. From UCLA Newsroom (by Stuart Wolpert): ‘Scaffolding’ method allows biochemists to see proteins in remarkable detail Technique that uses cryo-electron microscopy should help scientists better understand disease-causing proteins Research from UCLA’s Tamir […]

A photo gallery of the 2018 Departmental Awards Ceremony and a list of the award recipients are now available online.    The annual Departmental Awards Ceremony was held at the CNSI auditorium on Monday, April 9, 2018. In addition to recognizing the efforts of our accomplished students and faculty, we had an opportunity to celebrate […]

The mechanisms by which muscone and analogs produce the aroma known as musk, a common component of perfumes, were reported by the research team. UCLA Visiting Scholar Professor Eric Block (University at Albany, State University of New York) and collaborators Victor Batista (Yale University), David O’Hagan (St. Andrews University, Scotland) and Hanyi Zhuang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) […]

The international team of researchers has discovered that bacteria have a “memory” that passes sensory knowledge from one generation of cells to the next . Professor Gerard Wong, a member of the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, and the UCLA Department of Bioengineering, was one of the study’s senior authors. Wong group graduate students […]

On April 3rd, 2018, the Graduate Biochemistry Student Association (gBSA) hosted the third event of the Navigating Graduate School Lunch Hour Series. At the “Applying for Fellowships” event, graduate students attended a series of presentations outlining the application process for UCLA-wide and nation-wide fellowships. Presenters for the event included students and faculty from the UCLA […]