The groundbreaking research, led by Professor Juli Feigon, was published online this week by the prestigious journal Science. The team’s research has produced images of telomerase in much higher resolution than ever before, giving them major new insights about the enzyme. Their findings could ultimately lead to new directions for treating cancer and preventing premature […]

The event celebrated the 2015 Postdoctoral Awardees and paid tribute to Paul & Lyda Boyer for their generous support of postdoctoral fellows.  Held on Oct. 9th at the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) the awards ceremony was co-sponsored by the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Molecular Biology Institute (MBI). This year, a total of […]

Richard Heck (BS ’52 chemistry, PhD ’54 physical organic chemistry, Saul Winstein group, 2011 Seaborg medalist) died on October 9, 2015, in Manila.  Along with Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki, Heck shared the 2010 Nobel Prize in chemistry for creating the “Heck reaction” (a palladium-catalyzed carbon cross-coupling reaction), which has been widely hailed for its […]

Andrea Hadjikyriacou (Steve Clarke group) and Alexander Nikolich Patananan (PhD Biochemistry ’14) are the session organizers. Titled “Post-translational Modifications and the Microorganism Response” the session will take place on Tuesday, April 5th at the 2016 ASBMB annual meeting in San Diego. The session is part of the “Straight from the Bench: 2016 Annual Meeting Sessions […]

Professor Neil Garg has been selected for the 2015 Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award for Organic Synthesis. The award “is presented annually to individuals who have exhibited exceptional creativity and dedication in the field of Organic Synthesis.”  Prof. Garg will give a plenary lecture at the 17th Tetrahedron Symposium in Spain in the summer of 2016, […]

One of our newest faculty members was interviewed about his career path in the Oct 1st issue of the prestigious journal. Prof. Nelson earned a B.S. in Chemistry from University of California at Berkeley in 2004 and a  Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 2012.  After postdoctoral training at University of California at […]

Professor Ric Kaner and postdoc Maher El-Kady have published an easy to understand article about their research in IEEE Spectrum. In the article titled “How a Microscopic Supercapacitor Will Supercharge Mobile Electronics”, published in the October 2015 issue, the materials chemists explain how the next generation portable electronics could be shrunk using simple microscale supercapacitor […]

The department welcomed its incoming class of graduate students with a full agenda of activities during the week of September 21.    The first two days were filled with information sessions about academics, department operations, and student life. Students heard from the graduate office, various faculty and staff, and then, Wednesday and Thursday were devoted […]