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Fall 2012 Graduate Admission Application
Due: January 11th, 2012.

Nobel Laureates at UCSD

Discovery of new atmospheric reaction garners prize




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Professor James Arnold
Professor Emeritus James Arnold passed away Friday, January 6, following a long illness. He was an internationally renowned geophysical chemist, member of the National Academy of Sciences (elected 1964),a founding member of the Department of Chemistry and the University of California, San Diego, the first Chair of the Department, and the holder of the first Harold C. Urey Chair. He was a valued colleague and will be missed. Memorial arrangements will be announced when they become available.

Envelope for an Artificial Cell
Using a novel chemical reaction, chemists have created self-assembling cell membranes, the structural envelopes that contain and support the reactions required for life. Neal Devaraj, assistant professor of chemistry at the University of California, San Diego, and Itay Budin, a graduate student at Harvard University, report their success in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. By assembling an essential component of earthly life with no biological precursors, they hope to illuminate lifes origins. Although other scientists recently announced the creation of a synthetic cell, only its genome was artificial. The rest was a hijacked bacterial cell. Fully artificial life will require the union of both an information-carrying genome and a three-dimensional structure to house it. The real value of this discovery might reside in its simplicity. From commercially available precursors, the scientists needed just one preparatory step to create each starting lipid chain. The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering supported this work. UC San Diego has filed a patent application on this discovery. Anyone with commercial interest in the research or application should contact senior licensing officer Eric Gosink in the technology transfer office at egosink@ucsd.edu.

Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action and Diversity Award recipient
Professor Robert Continetti, Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action and Diversity Awards University-wide Award Recipient for 2011. Continetti, who chaired the Chancellor's Diversity Council (2009-11), is being recognized for exemplifying the UC San Diego Principles of Community. Nominations recognize those individuals, departments and organizational units who made outstanding efforts in furthering diversity, equal opportunity and affirmative action at UC San Diego. Physical Sciences Dean Thiemens is a University-wide Award Recipient for 2010.

Silver lining to Asian dust cloud: more snow in California
Asian dust pollution, kicked up by sandstorms in the interior deserts of the continent, could actually be causing heavier snowfall in California. New research from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego suggests that storm clouds with Asian dust drop more snow on the Sierra Nevada than clouds without the dust. This does not include industrial pollution from burning coal or car exhaust, which actually decreases precipitation. Professor Kimberly Prather joins Madeleine Brand on National Public Radio to explain the implications of the study. http://www.scpr.org/programs/madeleine-brand/2011/12/07/21671/silver-lining-to-asian-dust-cloud-more-snow-in-cal The CBS Evening News also aired an interview with Professor Prather at 6:00 p.m. P.S.T. on December 13, 2011. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57341838/pollution-from-china-alters-weather-in-u.s-west/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+cbsnews%2Ffeed+%28CBSNews.com%29

Professors Joseph O'Connor and Michael Sailor named 2011 AAAS Fellows
Nine professors at the University of California, San Diego have been named 2011 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the nation's largest scientific organization. Professors Joseph O'Connor and Michael Sailor are members of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. O'Connor, an organic chemist, was honored for major contributions to synthetic and mechanistic organometallic chemistry, including transition metal-triggered enediyne cyclizations. Sailor, an inorganic chemist, was honored for developments in the chemistry of nanomaterials, in particular nanoporous silicon and iron oxide nanoparticles, that have led to fundamental advances in sensors, drug delivery materials, and in-vivo diagnostic devices. Further information is available online http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressreleases/nine_uc_san_diego_professors_named_2011_aaas_fellows/

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Message from the Chair

Robert E. Continetti, Chair


Faculty Spotlight

View profile for Rommie Amaro
Rommie Amaro

Computational Chemistry and Biophysics

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Timothy Baker

Macromolecular, cryoelectron microscopy and three-dimensional, image-reconstruction techniques.

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Timothy Bertram

Experimental Atmospheric Chemistry

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Stacey Brydges

Chemical Education: Development of context-rich curriculum; Use of collaborative learning strategies in large lectures; Communication of chemistry

View profile for Michael Burkart
Michael Burkart

Natural product synthesis/biosynthesis, Biological chemistry and enzymology, Metabolic engineering.

View profile for Seth Cohen
Seth Cohen

Bioinorganic and coordination chemistry. Metalloprotein inhibitors and supramolecular materials.

View profile for Robert Continetti
Robert Continetti

Dissociation dynamics of transient species, three-body reaction dynamics, novel mass-spectrometric methods

View profile for John Crowell
John Crowell

Materials chemistry, surface kinetics of metals/semiconductors, CVD, photo-induced deposition, thin-film spectroscopy.

View profile for John Czworkowski
John Czworkowski

Science and Math Initiative/California Teach; problem-based learning; the use of computer multimedia for science instruction

View profile for Edward Dennis
Edward Dennis

Biochemistry: phospholipase A2, signal transduction in macrophages, lipid maps, prostaglandin regulation, mass spec of lipids and proteins.

View profile for Neal Devaraj
Neal Devaraj

Biomimetic Chemistry, Molecular Imaging, Electrochemistry

View profile for Jack Dixon
Jack Dixon

Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase, Dual=specific Phosphatase, PTEN

View profile for Daniel Donoghue
Daniel Donoghue

Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptors (FGFRs) in Human Cancer

View profile for Pieter Dorrestein
Pieter Dorrestein

Biochemistry, Chemical Biology, Mass spectrometry; Harvesting genomic information for therapeutics.

View profile for Joshua Figueroa
Joshua Figueroa

Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry: Synthesis, Small Molecule Activation and New Transformations.

View profile for Marye Anne Fox
Marye Anne Fox

Physical organic chemistry; photochemistry; nanoscience of organized arrays.

View profile for Michael Galperin
Michael Galperin

Electron Transport in Condensed Phases. Dissipation and Relaxation Processes. Non-equilibrium Open Quantum Systems. Molecular Electronics.

View profile for Gourisankar Ghosh
Gourisankar Ghosh

Biochemistry and biophysics: transcription, signaling, pre-mRNA splicing, mRNA transport, protein-protein, protein-DNA and protein-RNA interactions

View profile for Partho Ghosh
Partho Ghosh

Mechanisms of bacterial and protozoan pathogenesis, and host response against infectious microbes.

View profile for Nathan Gianneschi
Nathan Gianneschi

Bioorganic chemistry, Supramolecular Chemistry, Bionanotechnology, Materials, Synthesis

View profile for Carlos Guerrero
Carlos Guerrero

Chemical synthesis; synthesis-oriented organic chemistry; methods development; synthesis design; total synthesis of natural products.

View profile for Thomas Hermann
Thomas Hermann

RNA as a Drug Target.                                                 

View profile for Alexander Hoffmann
Alexander Hoffmann

Biochemistry: signaling, transcription, computational network; stress and immune responses, apoptosis, proliferation

View profile for Patricia Jennings
Patricia Jennings

Biophysical chemistry: protein structure, dynamics and folding; 2, 3 and 4D NMR spectroscopy; PCR; equilibrium and kinetic-fluorescence, absorbance and circular dichroism spectroscopies

View profile for Simpson Joseph
Simpson Joseph

Biochemistry & Biophysics: ribosome structure, function and dynamics; discovery of novel antibiotics

View profile for Judy Kim
Judy Kim

Biophysical chemistry: Spectroscopic studies of membrane protein folding and dynamics

View profile for Elizabeth Komives
Elizabeth Komives

Structure, function, dynamics and thermodynamics of protein-protein interactions: NMR, mass spectrometry and kinetics

View profile for Clifford Kubiak
Clifford Kubiak

Inorganic, materials, and physical chemistry: electron transfer, catalysis, fixation and utilization of carbon dioxide.

View profile for Andrew Kummel
Andrew Kummel

STM/STS of gate oxides on compound semiconductors and adsorbates on organic semiconductor

View profile for Katja Lindenberg
Katja Lindenberg

Theoretical chemical physics: non-equilibrium statistical mechanics;stochastic processes; nonlinear phenomena; complex systems; condensed matter.

View profile for Douglas Magde
Douglas Magde

Experimental physical chemistry: photochemistry and photobiophysics; pico- and femtosecond lasers

View profile for J. Andrew McCammon
J. Andrew McCammon

Statistical mechanics and computational chemistry, with applications to biological systems

View profile for Mario Molina
Mario Molina

Physical Chemistry: Gas Phase Chemical Kinetics and Photochemistry; Chemistry of Atmospheric Aerosols; Air Pollution in Megacities of the Developing World

View profile for Tadeusz Molinski
Tadeusz Molinski

Organic chemistry of marine natural products, synthesis, NMR, and biomedical applications

View profile for Ulrich Muller
Ulrich Muller

Biochemistry: Evolution of catalytic RNAs, the Origin of Life

View profile for Terunaga Nakagawa
Terunaga Nakagawa

Biochemistry: Function and structural changes of the protein complexes involved in synaptic plasticity.

View profile for KC Nicolaou
KC Nicolaou

Total Synthesis and Chemical Biology of Natural and Designed Molecules

View profile for Joseph O
Joseph O'Connor

Organotransition metal; organic; physical organic; bioorganometallic; synthetic; and inorganic chemistry

View profile for Stanley Opella
Stanley Opella

NMR structural studies of proteins in membranes and other supramolecular assemblies

View profile for Francesco Paesani
Francesco Paesani

Theoretical chemical physics of complex interfaces of relevance to the environment

View profile for Charles Perrin
Charles Perrin

Physical-organic chemistry: stereoelectronic effects; hydrogen bonding; isotope effects; ionic solvation

View profile for Robert Pomeroy
Robert Pomeroy

The application of analytical chemistry to forensic, environmental and industrial chemistry, then bridge these experiences into the classroom. This also includes the role technology and instrumentation play in discovery and problem solving.

View profile for Kimberly Prather
Kimberly Prather

Environmental, physical/analytical chemistry: gas/particle processes of tropospheric significance; mass spectrometry; laser-based analysis techniques.

View profile for Arnold Rheingold
Arnold Rheingold

Inorganic chemistry: Small-molecule crystallography, synthesis of transition metal/p-block clusters

View profile for Michael Sailor
Michael Sailor

Nanomaterials: porous silicon, chemical and biological sensors, biomaterials, electrochemistry

View profile for Barbara Sawrey
Barbara Sawrey

Chemical education: development of computer-based multimedia to assist student learning of complex scientific processes and concepts

View profile for Amitabha Sinha
Amitabha Sinha

Experimental physical chemistry: photochemistry; laser spectroscopy; reaction dynamics of vibrationally excited molecules

View profile for Michael Tauber
Michael Tauber

Physical chemistry; Optical and magnetic spectroscopy; Fundamental studies of charge transport and solvation; Applications to energy conversion and energy storage.

View profile for Susan Taylor
Susan Taylor

Structure, Function, Dynamics, and Localization of PKA as a Prototype for the Protein Kinase Superfamily.

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Akif Tezcan

Bioinorganic and biophysical chemistry; Metalloprotein structure, function and biosynthesis; Biomaterials

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Emmanouil Theodorakis

Synthetic, Medicinal, Bioorganic and Biological Chemistry, Methods and Strategies in Natural Products Chemistry

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Mark Thiemens

Atmospheric chemistry: physical chemistry of isotope effects; solar system formation

View profile for Navtej Toor
Navtej Toor

Structure and Function of Introns and Retroelements

View profile for Yitzhak Tor
Yitzhak Tor

Ligand-nucleic acid interactions; Antiviral and antibacterial agents; Fluorescent nucleosides and nucleotides; Cellular delivery vehicles

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William Trogler

Inorganic chemistry: polymer chemistry; nanomaterials.

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Roger Tsien

Chemical biology; design, synthesis, and application of molecular probes of biological function

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Robert Tukey

Environmental toxicology: The role of environmental and chemical toxicants on gene expression

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Hector Viadiu

Laboratory of Structural Biochemistry: X-ray Crystallography and Cryo-Electron Microscopy of DNA Binding Proteins and Membrane Proteins

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Wei Wang

Inference of gene regulatory networks and determination of protein specificity

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John Weare

Physical chemistry: calculations of the dynamics of complex systems; theoretical geochemistry

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Haim Weizman

Chemical education, Bioorganic chemistry

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James Whitesell

Organic chemistry: studies of stereochemistry, both in a molecular and a supramolecular sense.

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Jerry Yang

Bioorganic Chemistry, Molecular Self-Assembly, Molecular Synthesis, Materials Chemistry, Bionanotechnology



Events and Seminars

Jan 30 2012 at 4:00 PM
Organic Seminar
Peter B. Dervan, Professor
Targeting Transcription Factor-DNA Interfaces by Small Molecules
Jan 30 2012 at 4:00pm
Physical/Analytical Seminar
Professor Valeria Molinero
Crystallization of Water: From Bulk to the Nanoscale
Feb 2 2012 at 9:30 AM
Special Seminar
Dr. Roy Wollman
Spatio-Temporal Signaling Control of Cytoskeleton Self-Organization
Feb 3 2012 at 11:00 AM
Physical/Analytical Seminar
Professor Yadong Yin
Magnetic Assembly of Colloidal Responsive Photonic Nanostructures
Feb 6 2012 at 4:00pm
Special Seminar
Dr. Mohammad Seyedsayamdost
Interrogating Microbial Symbioses to Discover New Bioactive Molecules
Feb 7 2012 at 4:00 PM
Physical/Analytical Seminar
Professor Garnet Chan
Hard Problems in Quantum Chemistry
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