Pivoting from carnivorous plants to COVID-19

UCI Professors Rachel Martin and James Nowick, along with graduate student Marquise Crosby and undergraduate student T.J. Cross, were featured in the publication of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology for their work on seeking protease inhibitors to aid in the fight against SARS-CoV-2.

Professor Finlayson-Pitts and Chemistry alumnus Dr. Jason Low discuss Climate Change and COVID-19

View Professor Barbara Finlayson-Pitts and Chemistry alumnus Dr. Jason Low discuss Air Quality, Climate Change and COVID-19 in the School of Physical Sciences "Compelling Conversations" Series here

Ph.D. student Kirsten Hewitt presents at the virtual ACS Spring National Meeting

Graduate student Kirsten Hewitt from the Jarvo lab and recently gave an oral presentation of her research as part of the virtual ACS Spring National Meeting: https://doi.org/10.1021/scimeetings.0c02106

Update on the UCI Research Enterprise Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic from VC for Research Pramod Khargonekar

Vice Chancellor for Research Pramod Khargonekar shared the following message by email on 4/29/20:

Update on the UCI Research Enterprise Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic

Dear Colleagues,

Professor Don Blake named UCI Distinguished Alumnus

Chemistry Professor Don Blake (M.S., 1980, Ph. D. 1984) is the recipient of a UCI Distinguished Alumnus Award from the UCI Alumni Association. The purpose of the award is "to recognize an alumnus who has achieved great professional prominence in their field and is engaged in the community, furthering the goals of UCI and/or the UCI Alumni Association."

Don will be recognized at a future Lauds and Laurels Ceremony, but in the mean time we congratulate him on this well-deserved honor.

Professor Andy Borovik receives the 2019 Tolman Award

Congratulations to Professor Andy Borovik on being named the 2019 Richard C. Tolman Award Recipient by the Southern California Section of the American Chemical Society.

Professor Borovik will be honored at the Tolman Award Dinner on September 16, 2020 at the UCI University Club, further details about the award and the event can be found here.

Welcome Professor Seunghyun Sim!

The Department of Chemistry would like to extend a warm welcome to our newest faculty member, Assistant Professor Seunghyun "Seu" Sim who will join UCI on July 1, 2020.

Professor Andrej Lupták named Guggenheim fellow

Congratulations to Professor Andrej Lupták, professor of pharmaceutical sciences, chemistry, and molecular biology & biochemistry, on being named a Guggenheim fellow! Professor Luptak plans to work on the discovery and development of RNAs regulated by light.

UCI team working on recommendations for effective do-it-yourself face masks

Chemistry Professor Jim Smith is part of team looking at the effectiveness of do-it-yourself face masks.

Essential research continues in several Chemistry labs

These are the projects in Chemistry that have been approved as essential research as of 4/13/20:

Project Name/Description
Faculty

Drug discovery to fight COVID-19
Rachel Martin, Vy Dong, James Nowick, Doug Tobias, Carter Butts

Development of a Virus BioResistor (VBR) for the Detection of SARS-VoC-2 Antibodies in Blood Serum
Reginald M. Penner, Gregory Weiss

Hydrogen Bonding Cavity Motifs About Metal Ion
Andy Borovik

UCI Department of Chemistry

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