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 […]

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 researcher received 2018 NSF Honorable Mentions. Graduate students Joseph Jaye (Sletten group), Joseph Ong (Torres group), Stasik Popov (Nelson group), and undergraduate researchers Jesus Lopez Baltazar […]

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 present.  Alumna Dr. Audree Fowler (B.S. ’56, Ph.D. ’63 Biochemistry) presented the highly-competitive 2018 Audree Fowler Fellowships in Protein Science to Chemistry & Biochemistry graduate students Michael Hughes […]

On March 16, 2018, students from Professor Craig Merlic’s Honors Seminar for Chemistry 89 held a poster session focused on new medicines. At the event held in the Young Hall collaboratory, 50 students from the Honors Seminar for Chemistry and Biochemistry class presented 25 posters on drugs recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration […]

PhD student Kent Kirlikovali (Spokoyny group) has been selected for a 2018 IPMI Student Award. The award recognizes excellence and achievement in the field of precious metals.  Kirlikovali will receive the award and present his research at the IPMI Annual International Conference in June in San Antonio, Texas. Working in the laboratory of chemistry Professor Alexander […]

Postdoctoral associate Julia Stauber (Spokoyny group) has been named as a recipient of the 2018 DIC Young Investigator Award. Stauber was recognized by the American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Inorganic Chemistry (DIC) for her work with Professor Kit Cummins at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) during her Ph.D. studies. She will participate in […]