Jun 13, 2025
Congratulations to Shelby Vexler and Steven Yang for awards in 2025! Shelby received the UCLA Research Showcase Fellowship Award for the American Chemical Society, and also the Chemistry Department’s Herbert Newby McCoy Mentorship Award. Steven received the UCLA...
Feb 18, 2025
Congratulations to Steven Yang for a successful thesis defense! Steven presented polymyxin B-phage conjugates as a way to greatly increase potency and reduce toxicity of the nephrotoxic antibiotic polymyxin B. He also presented his work at IDweek and AIChE in 2024....
Apr 17, 2024
Congratulations to Shelby Vexler for winning third place at the UCLA Grad Slam competition! Watch her award-winning presentation on antibacterial phage conjugates!
Jun 5, 2023
Congratulations to Alberto for receiving a NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellowship! This two-year fellowship will support Beto’s work to understand ribozyme evolution during the origin of life. Congratulations also to Nick for receiving a Summer Mentored Research...
Apr 6, 2023
Congratulations to Shelby Vexler for receiving the Best Graphical Abstract award at the BioPACIFIC MIP retreat last month! We are grateful to this NSF MIP for their fellowship support of two of our graduate students, Shelby and Steven, and for fostering a great...
Jun 16, 2022
Congratulations to Dr. Josh Kenchel for a successful hybrid thesis defense on June 3, 2022! In a riveting presentation, Josh described nearly five years of work on ribozyme evolution, bringing new evolutionary concepts as well as analytical chemistry techniques to his...
