Graduate students Michael Corsello (Garg) & Jessica Grandner (Houk) presented their graduate research at the ACS DOC’s annual Graduate Research Symposium.
  The 7th annual American Chemistry Society (ACS) Division of Organic Chemistry (DOC) Graduate Research Symposium (GRC) provided an opportunity for 50-75 fourth-year graduate students in organic chemistry to interact with leaders from academia, industry, […]

Professor and Vice Chair James Bowie has been named the recipient of the 2017 Anatrace Membrane Protein Award by the Biophysical Society (BPS).  The award recognizes outstanding investigators who make a significant contribution to the field of membrane protein research. Bowie is being recognized for his impact to the field of protein biochemistry and biophysics […]

Professor Yi Tang has been selected as the recipient of the Mr and Mrs Sun Chan Memorial Award in Organic Chemistry.  Established in 1998 by Sunney Chan, then director of the Institute of Chemistry of Academia Sinica in Taiwan, the award recognizes young organic chemists of Chinese descent. Tang will be an awardee presenter on […]

The discovery by Elena Grintsevich, Emil Reisler, and their collaborators from the University of Texas, was recently featured in Nature Cell Biology.  Numerous cellular functions depend on actin filament (F-actin) disassembly. Their research uncovered a key link to targeted F-actin disassembly by finding that F-actin is efficiently dismantled through a post-translational-mediated synergism between cofilin and […]

This summer, six students from three Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) will contribute to UCLA research projects.  The goal of the Summer Research and Admission Pathways Program is to introduce bright undergraduates to UCLA, give them an opportunity to engage in ground breaking science, prepare them for graduate school, and attract them back for […]

Members of the department and the UCLA community gathered to celebrate the retirement of biochemistry professor Richard Weiss and MIC director Jane Strouse. More than 60 people attended the reception in their honor in the Young Hall Student Center and Lounge on June 24th.  In her remarks at the event, Assistant Vice Provost for Undergraduate […]

To conclude the Faculty Spotlight series of our newly tenured faculty (Bouchard, Quinlan & Torres), this week’s feature focuses on Professor Jorge Torres. Torres received his B.S. in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1998, where he conducted research under the mentorship of Dr. Eduardo Orias. He […]

Professors Jim Bowie, Patrick Harran and Yung-Ya Lin have agreed to serve as the new Vice Chairs of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Bowie will serve as Vice Chair of Academic Personnel, Harran will serve as Vice Chair of Graduate Education and Lin will serve as Vice Chair of Undergraduate Education.   “Jim, Patrick, […]