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06/23/2009
12th Annual San Diego MedChem Symposium, July 17, 2009, 8:30am-3pm, UCSD Price Center Theater
Organized by Dr. Thomas R. Beattie, San Diego American Chemical Society and Dr. Emmanuel Theodorakis and Dr. Michael Burkart, UCSD Chem/Biochem
06/19/2009
Drs. Stacey Brydges and Christina Johnson given 2008-09 Faculty Appreciation Awards
Drs. Stacey Brydges and Christina Johnson were given 2008-09 Faculty Appreciation Awards by the Office of Academic Support and Instructional Services (OASIS). The awards recognize their significant contributions to the education of UCSD undergraduate students. Nominations were made by the OASIS student staff of mentors and tutors. Certificates were presented at a gathering on June 5, 2009.
05/18/2009
Navtej Toor joins our biochemistry division in the fall of 2009. He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Dr. Toor earned his Ph.D. in Biological Sciences with a specialization in RNA biochemistry in 2004 from the University of Calgary.
05/18/2009
Francesco Paesani joins our physical chemistry division as an assistant professor in the fall of 2009. He is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Utah. He received his Ph.D. in theoretical physical chemistry from the University of Rome in 2000.
05/04/2009
Timothy H. Bertram joins our physical chemistry division as an assistant professor in the fall of 2009. He is currently a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Washington. He received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 2006.
04/10/2009
Students win 2009 NSF Fellowships
Five students from the UCSD Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry have won 2009 NSF Graduate Fellowships; graduate students Liezel Labios, Candace Seu (inorganic chemistry), Melissa Wong (life sciences, virology) and seniors Jonathan Gable (biophysical chemistry) and Margaret Yandell (analytical chemistry) who are mentored by Professors Josh Figueroa, Cliff Kubiak, Leor Weinberger, Judy Kim, and Kim Prather, respectively. 950 awards are being given nationally. https://www.fastlane-beta.nsf.gov/grfp/AwardeeList.do?method=loadAwardeeList
03/26/2009
Special Seminar by Professor Robert H. Grubbs, Nobel Laureate-2005, April 1, 2009 at 5:00 PM
Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology. Special Seminar on "Olefin metathesis catalysts for the synthesis of complex structures", at 1205 Natural Sciences Building
03/19/2009
Leor Weinberger awarded a Young Innovator IDEA Award
Dr. Leor Weinberger has been awarded a Young Innovator IDEA Award from the California HIV/AIDS Research Program (CHRP). The award is for $160,000 over two years.
03/19/2009
Distinguished Professor Wolynes awarded Hirschfelder Prize in Theoretical Chemistry
Distinguished Professor Peter Wolynes has been awarded the 2009-10 Hirschfelder Prize in Theoretical Chemistry. This annual prize was established in 1991 and brings a cash award of $15,000. As part of this prestigious award, Professor Wolynes will give three scientific lectures at the University of Wisconsin, Madison this fall. A list of past winners, all well-known and including several who later won the Nobel Prize, is available online. http://www.chem.wisc.edu/graduate/tci/Hirschfelder_recipients.html
02/24/2009
LIPID MAPS Annual Meeting 2009, May 6-7, 2009
Lipidomics Impact on Cell Biology, Structural Biochemistry and Immunopathology UCSD Faculty Club
02/23/2009
02/13/2009
Tsien Lab Symposium: A Revolution in Fluorescence Imaging, Feb 17 and 18, 2009
Feb 17, 9am-5:30pm, Price Center Ballroom East and Feb 18, 9am-noon, Leichtag 107
01/20/2009
Special Lecture by Roger Tsien, 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Nobel Prize (Chemistry) Lecture by Roger Tsien, UCSD Professor of Pharmacology and Chemistry/Biochemistry "Painting Cell Signals with a Palette of Fluorescent Proteins" at 4:00 pm, Price Center Theater
01/20/2009
CANCELLED! Reviving the US: Nobel Prizewinners Forum
Reviving the United States: Nobel Prize Winners Offer Their Perspectives scheduled for Thursday, Jan 29, 2009 5:30 - 6:45 p.m. at UC San Diego has been cancelled due to unforeseen, last minute scheduling conflicts with some of the participants. This event will not be rescheduled. We regret any inconvenience this cancellation has caused.