A team led by Professor Shimon Weiss and former PhD student Arkaprabha Basu has developed an image processing technique, SPOCC, which quantifies cytoskeletal properties using microscopic images.  Statistical Parametrization of Cell Cytoskeleton (SPOCC) is an image processing method developed by Professor Shimon Weiss’ group at UCLA.  Weiss holds UCLA’s Dean M. Willard Chair in Chemistry […]

Ph.D. student Samantha Theresa Mensah (Andrews/P Weiss groups) has been awarded a Boren Fellowship to conduct research and study Twi in Ghana.   National Security Education Program (NSEP) David L. Boren Fellowships provide up to $30,000 to U.S. graduate students to add an international component to their graduate education. A fifth-year UCLA chemistry graduate student in the groups […]

MIT News features profile of former Spokoyny lab undergraduate researcher Azin Saebi (MS/BS biochemistry and BS neuroscience, ‘17).   Saebi, currently a chemistry graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) working in the groups of Professors Bradley Pentelute and Stephen Buchwald, was an undergraduate researcher in Professor Alex Spokoyny’s group.    While at UCLA, Saebi received […]

Professor David Eisenberg leads UCLA research team to report in the journal Nature that amyloid fibrils found in people with frontotemporal degeneration contain the little-known protein TMEM106B.  The study’s lead authors are Eisenberg group members molecular biology graduate student Yi Xiao (Sean) Jiang and UCLA postdoctoral fellow Dr. Qin Cao. UCLA co-authors are bioinformatics researcher […]

The department welcomes renowned theoretical and computational science scholar Professor Prineha Narang, who joins the UCLA faculty as the Howard Reiss Development Chair.    Currently an Assistant Professor at the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University, Prof. Narang will transition NarangLab, her interdisciplinary group founded at Harvard, to UCLA in […]

Professors Paul S. Weiss and Louis Bouchard are co-investigators on a multi-institutional quantum biology team to receive a three-year $1M award from the prestigious WM Keck Foundation. Physicists have worked and wrestled with quantum theory for more than a century now, applying it to explore and help solve the profound mysteries of Albert Einstein’s theory of […]

Structural biologist and artist Professor David Goodsell (Ph.D. ‘87 Biochemistry, Dickerson) wins the Protein Society’s 2022 Carl Brändén Award for his exceptional contributions in the areas of education and/or service to the field.  Professor David Goodsell is an associate professor in the Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology at the Scripps Research Institute and […]

Graduate student Ashley Shin (Caram group) has been selected to receive the Charles E and Sue K Young Graduate Student Fellowship Award for 2022-23.   Since 1981, only four exceptional UCLA graduate students per year are chosen by the College Deans to receive this prestigious award which recognizes “outstanding graduate students for exemplary academic achievement, research, […]