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 […]

Graduate students Emily (Maly) Cosco (Sletten lab), Michael Yamano (Garg lab), & Alex Bagdasarian (Nelson lab) have been named the 2018 Senior Foote Fellows.   The Christopher S. Foote Fellowship in Organic Chemistry recognizes organic students’ accomplishments in graduate studies and research as well as their performance on the qualifying examination for the Ph.D. degree. The […]

The Loo research team developed a mass spectrometry workflow that can be used for drug development and structural biology research. Traditional methods of mass spectrometry reveal what proteins form a complex but usually cannot reveal how the protein complex is assembled or what parts of each protein interact. Obtaining this structural data via X-ray crystallography […]

A research photo submitted by Professor Justin Caram and postdoc Dr Tim Atallah was included in the journal’s Chemistry in Pictures section. C&EN’s Chemistry in Pictures “showcases the beauty of chemistry, chemical engineering, and related sciences”. Their photo was handpicked by C&EN editors to be included.    Caram joined the chemistry and bIochemistry faculty in […]

Professors Miguel Garcia-Garibay and Ken Houk are part of a team to form a crystal out of molecules that each has a solid exterior but contains moving parts. Their findings were reported in an article titled “Ultrafast rotation in an amphidynamic crystalline metal organic framework” which appeared in the November 13, 2017 issue of the […]