The UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry would like to welcome Hosea M. Nelson, who will be joining our department as an Assistant Professor in the Organic Chemistry division. Prof. Nelson started his academic career at City College of San Francisco before transferring to UC Berkeley, where he received a B.S. degree in Chemistry in […]

Photos from the 2015 Norma Stoddart Prize Lectures are now available for viewing.  The full photo gallery is available here. Dr. Alexander Patananan (2014 UCLA Ph.D., Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in Professor Michael A. Teitell’s research group at UCLA Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine) and Dr. Jessica Wang (2014 […]

On Friday, January 30, 2015, Professor Richard Kaner and the UCLA Student Members of the American Chemical Society (SMACS) visited Melida Lopez’s class at the Ánimo College Preparatory Academy.  Located at the David Starr Jordan High School Education Complex in Watts, Los Angeles, the Academy is a turnaround school, an intensive intervention and leadership development […]

Photos from the Winter 2015 UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Distinguished Lecture by Professor Harry Gray are now available for viewing. Professor Harry B. Gray, the Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry and the Founding Director of the Beckman Institute at California Institute of Technology presented his lecture, “Solar-Driven Water Splitting,” on February 5, 2015 at […]

Professor Sriram Kosuri was recently interviewed by the NewScientist sharing his thoughts on the potential of using DNA to store data as a “time capsule.” The NewScientist published an article discussing the potential of using DNA to store information that can be preserved as a time capsule.  The publication interviewed Professor Sriram Kosuri, who previously “stored […]

PNAS Early Edition has featured a profile of Professor Sabeeha Merchant to accompany her inaugural article, “Copper economy in Chlamydomonas: Prioritized allocation and reallocation of copper to respiration vs. photosynthesis.” Extract: Organic molecules dominate the biological world, yet many of life’s critical molecular reactions depend on metals for catalysis. Sabeeha Merchant, a professor of biochemistry at the […]

Professor Richard Kaner has been elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. UCLA Newsroom (By Bill Kisliuk): A member of the UCLA faculty since 1987, Richard Kaner is a former Fulbright, Guggenheim, Packard and Sloan fellow, and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Materials Research […]

The department would like to congratulate Professor Anastassia Alexandrova, who was recently promoted to the rank of Associate Professor, effective July 1, 2015. Short BiographyBorn in USSR, Prof. Alexandrova obtained her B.S./M.S. degree with highest honors from Saratov University, in 2000. In 2005, she obtained her Ph.D. in Theoretical Physical Chemistry from Utah State University. […]