Six Chemistry & Biochemistry faculty members are selected to receive CNSI Noble Family Innovation Fund grants for their nanoscience research projects. The Noble Family Innovation Fund, established with a $10 million philanthropic commitment to the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA, supports basic and translational research involving interactions on the nanoscale – measured in billionths of […]

Former undergraduate researcher Indya Weathers ’19 (Biochemistry, Chanfreau group) is featured on Undergraduate Research Center–Sciences’ Student Spotlight.    Weathers was recognized by the UCLA/URC-Sciences for her first author publication in STAR Protocols titled “Protocol for High-Resolution Mapping of Splicing Products and Isoforms by RT-PCR Using Fluorescently Labeled Primers”, which is based on her undergraduate research […]

Professor Paul Weiss has been named a Distinguished Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras  for 2021-26. IIT Madras Distinguished Professorships are awarded to pre-eminent authorities in their fields and who are nationally or internationally recognized for the importance of their achievements. Weiss is the first UCLA faculty member to receive the honor. […]

Olympic gold medalist and UCLA volleyball legend Karch Kiraly leads the USA Women’s Volleyball team to its first-ever Olympic gold medal. The U.S. Women made history on Sunday, August 8, 2021, sweeping longtime rival Brazil for their first Olympic gold medal, 3-0 (25-21, 25-20, 25-14) at Ariake Arena in Tokyo. Charles Frederick “Karch” Kiraly began […]

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) […]