Congratulations to Professor Ellen Sletten on her promotion to associate professor with tenure, effective July 1, 2021. Professor Ellen Sletten received her B.S. in Chemistry from Stonehill College in 2006 where she worked in the laboratory of Professor Louis Liotta on the synthesis of alkaloid glycosidase inhibitors. During her undergraduate education, she also performed research […]

The team demonstrates the synergy of MicroED and synthetic biology in natural product discovery, technologies that together will ultimately accelerate the speed of new drug discovery. In the paper, they report the use of microcrystal electron diffraction (MicroED), an emerging cryogenic electron microscopy (CryoEM) method, in combination with genome mining, to accelerate natural product (NP) […]

Professor Miguel García-Garibay has been reappointed as dean of the UCLA College of Letters and Science, Division of Physical Sciences. A member of UCLA’s faculty for more than two decades, Professor García-Garibay has served as dean of the Division of Physical Sciences at UCLA since July 1, 2016. Prior to that he served as the […]

The Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry plans to announce a new two-year Master’s degree in Applied Chemical Sciences (MACS) with a focus on non-academic careers.  The goal of the MACS program, which is currently under review by the UC Office of the President, is to train students to be well-rounded chemists, equipped with a broad […]

The summer seminar series, hosted by the Graduate Biochemistry Student Association (gBSA), features a career coach guest speaker and five alumni career talks.  Starting Friday, July 23, 2021, the Biochemistry Summer Seminars will take place every Friday afternoon from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. online via Zoom. (There will be no seminar on September 10th due […]

This summer we welcome our newest Teacher-Scholar Huiling Shao and we bid farewell to former Teacher-Scholars Marlius Castillo and Anish Nag. Our Teacher-Scholar program allows postdoctoral scholars to experience research and teaching at the same time as a way to prepare them for future faculty or research positions. “We commend Marlius and Anish for their […]

Alumna Dr. Nako Nakatsuka (PhD ’17 Andrews/P. Weiss Groups), a senior scientist at ETH Zürich, is named one of MIT Technology Review’s list of 35 Innovators Under 35. Nakatsuka is being recognized in the “2021 Pioneers” category for her research on miniature biosensors that could give scientists better insight into depression and dementia. According to […]

Congratulations to Professor Jose Rodriguez on his promotion to associate professor with tenure, effective July 1, 2021. A true Bruin, Professor Jose Rodriguez received his B.S. in BioPhysics and his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology at UCLA. He came to the U.S. from Mexico at a young age, went to public school in Los Angeles, and then to UCLA, […]