Bon voyage: Ruoxin Zhou
Congratulations to Ruoxin Zhou for successful completion of his master's thesis in the CBE MS program! Ruoxin will continue his career as a development quality assurance associate at oncology biotech firm BeOne Medicines (formerly BeiGene). Best wishes to Ruoxin!...
Graduate student awards in 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...
Thesis Defense: Steven Yang defends his thesis and presents at AIChE and IDweek!
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....
Shelby wins 3rd place at UCLA Grad Slam
Congratulations to Shelby Vexler for winning third place at the UCLA Grad Slam competition! Watch her award-winning presentation on antibacterial phage conjugates!
Beto and Nick win research fellowships
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...
Shelby wins award for Best Graphical Abstract
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...
Thesis defense: Dr. Josh Kenchel
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...
Dr. Huan Peng joins faculty of Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Congratulations to Dr. Huan Peng, who has just joined Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China! Dr. Peng is now an associate professor in the College of Life Science and Technology. As a postdoctoral fellow in our lab, Dr. Peng laid the foundation...
Thesis defense: Dr. Yuning Shen
Congratulations to Dr. Yuning Shen for successfully defending his thesis on February 24, 2022! In his work, Yuning merged our experimental methods with statistical and computational tools he learned, including from co-advisor Professor Ambuj Singh, Dept. of Computer...