1102 Natural Sciences 2
University of California, Irvine,
California, 92697-2025 ::
phone (949) 824-4097 ::
fax (949) 824-8571
Bioorganic, Bioinorganic, and Chemical Biology
Chemical biology at UCI focuses on understanding and manipulating the complicated chemical structures, reactions,
and interactions of biology. Research projects include developing new spectroscopic methods for elucidating the
structures of biomolecules, engineering and expressing novel proteins, mimicking biomaterials, studying electron
transfer processes in proteins, using X-ray crystallography, NMR spectroscopy, optical
microscopy and computer simulations to gain insight into biomolecules and biomolecular assemblies, inventing new
chemical probes to address biomolecular interactions, controlling protein interactions and bioactivities, synthesizing biologically
active compounds, and understanding the chemical basis for diseases.
