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 […]

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 Peking University and the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, were explained in the team’s paper titled “Direct single-molecule dynamic detection of chemical reactions” […]

On the occasion of Professor Raphael “Raphy” Levine’s 80th birthday, a symposium will be held in his honor at the ACS national meeting in Boston this August. Levine will turn 80 on March 29, 2018. The symposium titled “Information Theory and Dynamics: From Elementary Processes to System Chemistry, In Honor of Raphy Levine’s 80th Birthday” […]

Professor David Baker (University of Washington) gave the Winter 2018 UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Distinguished Lecture on Friday, February 9th.  Over 350 faculty, students, and researchers attended Baker’s lecture titled “The Coming of Age of de novo Protein Design” at the UCLA California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI). Photos from the event can be viewed below. A video […]

Students are following a new curriculum which allows them to pursue independent group research projects rather than simply following established lab procedures.  The curriculum for the upper division “Inorganic and Metalorganic Laboratory Methods” laboratory class was redesigned by Professor Alex Spokoyny in 2017 to give students, who have already learned many lab techniques, the opportunity […]

In the prestigious journal, Kosuri’s team of scientists report on the innovative low-cost method of building gene sequences which they developed. The new technique could enable scientists in any typical biochemistry laboratory to make their own gene sequences for only about $2 per gene. Researchers now generally buy gene sequences from commercial vendors for $50 […]

Professors Ellen Sletten and Hosea Nelson are two of five UCLA assistant professors selected to receive prestigious 2018 Sloan Research Fellowships.   Profiles of the UCLA 2018 Sloan Research Fellows, in which they discuss what they will use their fellowships for and what makes them excited to come to work everyday, can be found on the […]