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 […]

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’ […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Three graduate students, four undergraduate student researchers, and an alumna receive highly competitive 2018 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program awards.    In addition, five graduate students and one undergraduate student […]

On St Patrick’s Day this year, the Molecular Biology Institute (MBI) returned to Ventura for its Annual Retreat. The retreat was very well attended, with 96 students and 23 faculty […]