PhD student Dahee Jung leads team to develop a method to create linked networks of metal oxides that could have interesting catalytic or electronic properties. Jung, a 4th year chemistry graduate student, was first author and Professor Alexander Spokoyny was senior author on the team’s paper titled “A molecular cross-linking approach for hybrid metal oxides” […]

The Houk group has elucidated how a novel enzyme catalyzes a reaction that was heretofore known only in the lab and not known to happen in nature. They used computations to figure out the mechanism and basis for chemoselectivity of an unusual enzyme known as a Stig cyclase. Working in collaboration with the experimental group […]

The team, co-led by Professor Xiangfeng Duan, reported on the development of two-dimensional ‘superlattices’ which could lead to improvements in electronics. The study titled “Monolayer atomic crystal molecular superlattices” was published in the March 7, 2018, issue of the prestigious journal Nature. The research team was led by Duan, UCLA professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and Yu […]

Joan Valentine, the first female faculty member in UCLA’s Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, was recently featured in a video by her alma mater, Princeton University. Valentine was the first female Ph.D. recipient from Princeton’s Department of Chemistry. She was interviewed by Princeton’s science reporter Dr. Tien Nguyen when she returned to Princeton on May 17, […]

In the opinion piece, Professor Patrick Harran and his group were recognized for their “highly creative approach to macrocycle synthesis”.   The writer refers to the Harran group’s recent paper “Unconventional Fragment Usage Enables a Concise Total Synthesis of (−)-Callyspongiolide” by postdoctoral fellow Francesco Manoni, visiting scholar Corentin Rumo, graduate student Liubo Li, and Harran which […]

On February 26, 2018, the Graduate Biochemistry Student Association (gBSA) hosted the second event of their Navigating Graduate School Lunch Hour Series. At the “Networking, the how and why?” event, a panel of UCLA faculty and postdoctoral fellows shared their experiences building professional relationships outside of the lab. The discussion included navigating conference opportunities, maintaining […]

Pratibha Varma-Nelson, Founding Executive Director of the STEM Education, Innovation and Research Institute at IUPUI, gave the February 27th seminar. Varma-Nelson, a professor of chemistry at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), was instrumental in the development of the Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL) program, which is a method and practice of teaching that encourages students taking […]