Professor Shimon Weiss leads team to develop nanosensors that can be directly inserted into a cell’s lipid membrane and be used to measure membrane potential.  The devices, which are based on inorganic semiconductor nanoparticles, could potentially record action potentials from multiple neurons as well as electrical signals on the nanoscale – for example, across just […]

Photos from the 2018 Christopher S Foote Lecture events are now available for viewing. On Thursday, Jan. 18, 2018, Professor Eric Block from the Department of Chemistry and the University of Albany, SUNY, gave the afternoon Foote lecture titled “Fifty Years of Smelling Sulfur: From the Chemistry of Garlic to the Molecular Basis for Olfaction”. […]

The researchers have determined the atomic structure of a protein fragment called a prion that is associated with infectious neurodegenerative diseases. Professor Jose Rodriguez holds the Howard Reiss Development Chair in the UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and he is a member of the UCLA-DOE Institute. He joined the UCLA faculty as an assistant […]

Professor Neil Garg has been awarded Baylor University’s prestigious Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching.  The award is given once every two years after a rigorous selection process involving nominees from all academic disciplines. Garg and the two other finalists, Professor Clinton Longenecker (University of Toledo) and Professor Heidi Elmendorf (Georgetown University), each spent […]

1st year PhD student Mackenzie Anderson (Kaner Group) awarded a 2018 American Membrane Technology Association-US Bureau of Reclamation Graduate Fellowship. Mackenzie was one of four graduate students nationally to receive the fellowship. The American Membrane Technology Association (AMTA) and U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) joined together to provide funding for fellowships to graduate students conducting research […]

UCLA researchers have found that modification of actin leads to dramatic changes in actin filament stability. In a study published in December in Nature Communications, researchers led by Professors Emil Reisler (UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry) and Hong Zhou (UCLA Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics) demonstrate that modification of actin’s methionine residues leads to […]

Photos from the 2017 Seaborg Symposium & Medal Award Dinner honoring Professor William Gelbart are now available for viewing. The full photo gallery is available here. On Saturday, Nov. 18, 2017, Professor William Gelbart, UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, was honored by the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry with the 2017 Glenn T. Seaborg […]

UCLA chemistry lecturer and author Dr Eric Scerri was invited by C&EN to write a guest editorial in celebration of the Year of the Periodic Table. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has named 2019 the year of the periodic table of chemical elements. Scerri’s guest editorial for Chemical & Engineering News […]