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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

Collaboration with researchers from China has led to development of device which could illuminate the mechanism of important chemical and biological processes. The results of the collaboration with scientists from […]