Polymer chemist Professor Heather Maynard has been elected a 2021 Fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS). The American Chemical Society works to promote public policies that advance the chemistry enterprise and its practitioners. The Fellow of the American Chemical Society designation is awarded to members who have made exceptional contributions to the science or […]

BMSB PhD student Nicole Lynn (Torres lab) writes ninth article for ASBMB Today magazine as part of their contributor program.   Lynn’s article titled “Starved to death: Can dietary methionine combat cancer?” was featured in the July 27, 2021 issue of ASBMB Today, the member magazine of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB). The […]

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 […]