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 […]

Our Undergraduate Summer Research Program offers UCLA undergraduates the opportunity to carry out research with a faculty mentor during the summer. Applications for Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Summer Research Fellowships are now being accepted. The deadline to apply is March 14th and the chemistry or biochemistry faculty mentor must agree to supervise the student […]

UCLA chemist Professor Alexander Spokoyny is among 24 early-career scientists nationwide to be named a 2018 Cottrell Scholar.  Spokoyny will receive a $100,000 award for his project, “Atomically-Precise Nanomaterials Based on Inorganic Clusters”. Additionally, he will use the award to support the UCLA Prison Education Program, of which he is a faculty team member. The program, […]

Professor Stephen Buchwald, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), was honored at the Hawthorne Lecture on January 31, 2018. In his lecture titled “Palladium-Based Methodology in Imaging and Bioconjugation”, Buchwald presented the recent work conducted in his laboratory focused on the development of new metal-mediated methods for bioconjugation. Photos from the events can be viewed on the on-line photo […]

Professor Carla Koehler was one of five researchers to speak at the prestigious “Mitochondria and Medicine: The 2017 Dr Paul Janssen Award Symposium” last year. A video of Koehler’s seminar, “Mitochondrial Protein Transport and Disease: Another Block in the Wall”, can be viewed here. Her seminar was part of the second session titled “Understanding the […]