April, 2026: Henry wins the NSF Graduate Fellowship. congratulations!
March, 2026: Yong Rui is a recipient of both the Bhaumik Prize for Postdoctoral Fellows, and the Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship. Huge congratulations!
February, 2026: Anastassia is a recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award of the College of Arts & Sciences, Utah State University.
January, 2026: First year graduate students Henry and Anthony officially join the group. Welcome!
December, 2025: We have been awarded an INCITE allocation.
August, 2025: Anastassia receives the QBIC Award for the groundbreaking work on the role of electrostatics in enzymatic catalysis (Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany).
Summer, 2025: We welcome Julen Munarriz as a Fullbight Fellow, to rejoin the group after a few years away as a professor.
June, 2025: 4 students advanced to candidacy this year.
June, 2025: Ferdawss wins NSF Graduate Fellowship! Congratulations!!
May, 2025: Taras and Pujan win the excellence in 2nd year research awards, Anubhav wins the teaching award, Winston wins the excellence in research award, and Rob wins the Commencement award! Congratulations to all!
April, 2025: Arwen wins the NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship. Congratulations!!
April, 2025: Bonnie wins the Kivelson Fellowship for summer research. Congratulations!
April, 2025: Ferdawss get a NSF honorable mention. Congratulations!
April, 2025: Ferdawss wins a summer internship at LANL. Congratulations!
March, 2025: Rob receives the Chemical Computing Group Excellence Award, from the ACS COMP Division. Congratulations!! He joins the cohort of group alumni: Zisheng Zhang, PJ Robinson, Zhihao Cui, as well the the PI, who also won this Award at their times.
December 19, 2024: Anubhav wins the Cell Press Poster Award at the BORAM Conference.
December, 2024: Anastassia is recognized with the Charles W. Clifford Jr. Chair in Chemistry and Biochemistry.
November, 2024: Anastassia receives the QBIC Prize and honorary lectureship.
October, 2024: Shobhit, Ryan, and Yonghyuk win poster awards at SoCalTheoChem, and Ryan got a promoted talk. Wonderful job!
Fall equinox festivities. Celebrating new arrivals, oral exam passings, and Harry’s new professorship.
September, 2024: Anastassia joins the Board of Reviewing Editors of the Science magazine.
September, 2024: We welcome the a postdoc, Yulan Han, a student visitor from Chile (group of Francisco Munoz), Javiera Escares, as well as all rotation students, Avital, Jake, Yu, Arwen, Yannah, and Junwei!
Summer, 2024: Taras, Pujan, Pavel, and Shawn pass their qualifying oral exams.
July, 2024: Anastassia is elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
June, 2024: Santi’s and Zisheng’s graduation.
May, 2024: Santi’s exit talk. Brilliantly done!
May, 2024: Harry wins a faculty position in the University of Manchester, where he will start in the Fall. Congratulations!
April, 2024: Awards to the lab this year: Claire, Santiago, and Zisheng win the Commencement Awards. Rob wins the Excellence in Research award. Pujan wins the teaching award.
April, 2024: Santiago wins the Hoffman postdoctoral Fellowship, to continue his career in Berkeley after graduation this summer. Congratulations!
December, 2023: Claire gives her exit seminar!
November, 2023: ZZ gives his exit seminar!
September, 2023: Taras and Pujan are recepients of the NSF-UCLA Quantum Science and Engineering Fellowships.
Summer, 2023: We are excited to welcome new lab members: rotation students, Daniel, Anubhav, Ryan, and Pavel, and a postdoc, Yonghyuk Lee. Welcome!
Summer, 2023: Edison goes to UW for graduate school, Patricia goes to Fritz-Haber Institute as a Humboldt Fellow, Tom goes to Yale for a PhD program in applied math, Sam returns to Manchester, and Cecilia and Nathaniel get their M.S. degrees. Good luck, and gooybye.
June, 2023: Winston passes his candidacy exam!
June, 2023: Patricia gets her Ph.D. and wins the Trueblood Dissertation Award! Edison graduates with Departmental Honors. Congratulations!!
May, 2023: Departmental award season: Claire and Zisheng win the the Jim and Barbara Tsay Excellence in Research Award. Rob gets the John Stauffer Excellence in Second Year Academics. And Winston gets the John Stauffer Excellence in Teaching Award! Congratulations to all! Big day.
May, 2023: Anastassia wins the UCLA Gold Shield Faculty Prize.
May, 2023: Anastassia wins the Brown Investigator Award.
April, 2023: Santiago wins a travel award to attend the MolSSI conference Machine Learning and Chemistry: Are We There Yet?
March, 2023: Patricia gives her exit seminar. Congratulations, Dr. Poths!
February, 2023: Zisheng wins the ACS CATL ChemCatBio Travel Award from the ACS CATL Division to attend the National ACS Meeting.
January, 2022: We welcome Dr. Shobhit Chaturvedi, joining the group as a postdoctoral fellow.
December, 2022: Patricia wins the Humboldt Fellowship, to do postdoctoral work at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin. Congratulations!! And – good luck with the new career stage.
November, 2022: Zisheng wins the Chemical Computing Group Excellence Award, from the ACS COMP Division. Congratulations!! He joins the cohort of group alumni: PJ Robinson and Zhihao Cui, as well the the PI, who also won this Award at their times.
November, 2022: Berlin: the Planck-Humboldt award ceremony. With the Presidents of the Humboldt Foundation, the Max Plack Society, and a representative of the ministery of education of Germany.
Fall, 2022: The group welcomes rotation students: Nari, Shawn, and Jose.
August, 2022: Harry wins the Researcher Development Grant from the Royal Society of Chemistry. Congratulations!
August, 2022: The 7 th International Conference on Chemical Bonding takes place in Kauai, HI. Good to see all the friends again, including group alumni: Dr. Elisa Jiminez-Izal and Dr. Addis Fuhr.
August 17, 2022: Cecilia wins a pozter prize at the Seaborg symposium. Well done!
August, 2022: First rotation students of the year arrived. Pujan and Toy, warmest welcome!
July, 2022: Quantum Functional Groups. Spontaneous emission can be used for state preparation and readout of individual atoms and molecules so long as it can be repeated enough times for the detector to “click” before the molecules get bleached to another state.
In collaboration with the groups of Eric Hudson, Wes Campbell, Justin Caram, and John Doyle, we have recently demonstrated (in a recent paper in Nature Chemistry) a class of large molecules that appears to have this property, thereby extending the reach of this technique to species large enough to contain carbon rings.
2022: Anastassia will lead the newly funded NSF Center for Chemical Innovation, Phase I, on advanced molecular architectures for quantum information science. The team also includes Profs. Eric Hudson, Justin Caram, Miguel Garcia-Garibay, and Anna Krylov from USC.
July, 2022: Claire wins a poster prize at ACTC!
June, 2022: Zisheng wins a poster prize at the GRC Catalysis!
June, 2022: Many people go on summer internships: Santiago goes to LBL, Zisheng – to Argonne, Patricia – to FHI in Berlin, and Rob – to Humboldt University in Berlin. have fun, everyone!
June, 2022: Patricia wins Dissertation Year Fellowship!
May, 2022: Half of the group is honored with Depatmental Awards! Nathaniel wins the Michael E. Jung Excellence in Teaching Award, Claire and Zisheng win Jim and Barbara Tsay Excellence in Second Year Research and Academics Award, Patricia wins Thomas and Ruth Jacobs Excellence in Research Award, Edison and Tom win Daniel Kivelson Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowships, Elise wins Ramsey Summer Fellowship. Congratulations to all!!!
April, 2022: Will wins the NSF NRT Fellowship to conduct research in QIS. Congratulations!
April, 2022: Patricia wins the College of Letters and Science Stone Fellowship. Congratulations!
April, 2022: Rob wins NSF Graduate Fellowship! Congratulations!!
March, 2022: Will, Cecilia, Winston, and TJ officially join the lab. Welcome, welcome!
December 13, 2021: Cecilia gets the NSF NRT Fellowship to conduct research in QIS. Congratulations!
December 2, 2021: Derek gives his exit seminar. Congratulations, almost-Dr. Urwin!
November, 2021: We win the INCITE Award! Happy computing!
October, 2021: Anastassia wins the Utah State University Alumni Achievement Award.
September, 2021: Anastassia wins the Max Planck-Humboldt medal, for sciensists with outstanding potential outside Germany. The award opens an opportunity for a collaborative project with the Fritz-Haber Institute and the Humboldt University in Berlin.
September, 2021: More new group members: rotation graduate student Will Laderer, and undergraduate researchers: Elise, Tom, and Max.
September, 2021: All 2nd year students, Claire, Zisheng, and Santiago, successfully pass their oral exams. Congratulations!
August, 2021: We welcome the new rotation students: Cecilia Chang, TJ Cross, and Winston Gee!
May, 2021: Patricia has been selected to receive the Ralph and Charlene Bauer Alumni Legacy Award. This honor is given in recognition of outstanding research, teaching, and service. Congratulations, Patricia!
May, 2021: Two lab Alumni scored faculty positions: Mioy Huynh goes to Claremont College, and Sandra Brown goes to Harvey Mudd.
March, 2021: Claire wins the NSF Graduate Fellowship. Congratulations!!
March, 2021: Claire wins a summer internship at HRL. Congratulations!!
March 11, 2021: David gave his exit seminar. Congratulations, David!!
November, 2020: Borna’s paper in JPC Lett is one of the top 5 most cited in the journal, in 2019-2020, in the field of interfaces and catalysis.
October 7, 2020: Claire wins one of the inaugural CQSE graduate fellowship awards for her work on quantum computing. Congratulations!
Summer, 2020: We welcome the new cohort of graduate students doing their rotations with us: Rob, Nathaniel, Danika, Shiyun, Jake, and Doran.
June, 2020: Matthew wins the Commencement Award for Excellence in Research, in recognition of his outstanding excellence in research and academic achievements during the course of undergraduate studies.
June, 2020: Borna wins the Dissertaiton Year Fellowship of UCLA. Congratulations!
March, 2020: Santiago wins the DOE CSGF Fellowship! Huge congratulations!!
February, 2020: Zisheng wins the Pauley Fellowdship! Congratulations!
January, 2020: Patricia wins the UCLA Chemistry and Biochemistry Excellence in Research Fellowship.
January, 2020: David presents at the Gordon Conference “Metals in Biology”, and is granted an opportunity to give a talk later in the week.
January, 2020: Anastassia wins the ACS PHYS Early Career Award in Theoretical Chemistry.
January, 2020: Anastassia accepted to serve as a Senior Editor of the Journal of Physical Chemistry, ACS.
Septeber, 2019: Matthew gets in the UCLA Undergraduate Research Scholars program. Congratulations!!
August, 2019: Borna and Jack receive the George Gregory Department Fellowships for the Fall Quarter. This Awards is made possile by the generocity of several Chemistry and Biochemistry Alumni. Congratulations!
August-September, 2019: We welcome the new cohort of graduate students doing their first rotation in our lab: Santiago Vargas (a Competitive Edge Scholar), Clair Dickerson, and Zisheng Zhang (returning to the gorup after the CSST summer stay last year). Exciting moment.
August 9, 2019: Borna wins a poster Prize at the Pacific Coast Catalysis Society meeting, held in Pullman, WA. Congratuations!
July, 2019: Anastassia is promoted to Full Professor, and appointed as the Vice Chair for Undergraduate Education.
June 7, 2019: Addis successfully defends his Ph.D. He is off for a job as a computational physicsts in MITRE. Good luck, and – good bye.
April, 2019: Jack Fuller receives the Hanson-Dow award for excellence in teaching. Congratulations!
April, 2019: Julen Munarriz joins the group as a Postdoctoral Associate. Welcome Julen!
March, 2019: Matthew wins the Departmental Daniel Kivelson Undergraduate Rsearch Fellowship. Congratulations!
March, 2019: Anastassia wins the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award.
February, 2019: Zerina and Patricia officially join the lab as Ph.D. students. Warmest welcome!
December 2018: Amanda Morgenstern, a former graduate student co-supervised with Mark Eberhart (Colorado School of Mines), became an Assistant Professor at Colorado State University. Congratulations!!
Nov 28 – Dec 2, 2018: Aromaticity 2018 conference in Riviera Maya, Mexico. Two friendly encounters with Roald Hoffmann:
November 10, 2018: David Reilley wins a poster award at the 2018 Seaborg symposium.
November 10, 2018: David Reilley wins a poster award at the 2018 Seaborg symposium.
November, 2018: Hang Yin joins the group as an undergraduate researcher.
October, 2018: We won an INCITE supercomputing allocation!
September, 2018: Han Guo joins the group as a postdoctoral sccociate. She will contribute to studies of nonadiabatic events and spectroscopy at interfaces decorated with mlecules, as applied to catalysis and quantum computing.
August, 2018: Zerina Mehmedovic joins the group for a rotation. Welcome! Her interests are in material schemisty.
August, 2018: Elisa’s paper in collaboration with Sergei Kalinin (ORNL) is accepted to Small. Electron beam manpulation of Si atoms on graphene to form clusters.
July, 2018: Elisa’s paper on doping Pt cluster with Si for the control over the selectivity of alkane dehydrogenaiton is accepted in ACS Catalysis.
July 13–18, 2018: The 6th International Conference on Chemical Bonding (ICCB) organized by Anastassia, Alex Boldyrev, and Lai-Sheng Wang, took place in Kauai.
June 24-28, 2018: Anastassia and Philippe Sautet organized the International Congress on Theoretical Aspects of Catalysis on UCLA campus. The conference comes to the U.S. only for the second time since 1986. 100 participants from around the world came to present talks and posters. Huanchen, Borna, and David presented both posters and talks. The event was sponsored by Gaussian Inc., ACS Catalysis, Nature Catalysis, and Elsevier. Nat. Catal. poster prizes were given to 3 student presenters.
Group photo. Can you spot Bill Goddard?
poster session
May 2018: Mai-Anh wins the Gaduation Award in Physical Chemistry in our Department.
May 2018: PJ wins the Dean’s prize for undergraduate research.
May 2018: Anastassia wins the UCLA College Undergraduate Research Mentor Award.
April 2018: PJ wins the NSF Graduate Fellowship. Fantastic news! So proud of you.
April 2018: Huanchen’s paper describing localized fluxionality of surface-supported catalytic clusters as a dynamic ensemble in reaction conditions is accepted to JPC Lett.
February 2018: JP’s paper in collaboration with Profs. Tolber and Kaner on anisotropy of hardness of WB is accepted to JPCC. Long journey!
January 23, 2018: Huanchen wins the Excellence in Second Year Research Award of the Department. Congratulations!
February 2018: JP’s paper in collaboration with Profs. Tolber and Kaner on anisotropy of hardness of WB is accepted to JPCC. Long journey!
January 2018: The paper on cotroling monolayer of carboranes on Au surface via titration – monolayer dancing can-can – is accepted to ACS Nano. Collaboraiton with Paul Weiss.
December 19, 2017: Mai-Anh’s collaborative paper with Anderson group on the details of diborane interactions with surface-deposited size-selected Pt clusters is accepted to JPC C.
November, 2017: Mai-Anh delivers her exit seminar and files the dissertation — congrats, Dr. Ha!
November 14, 2017: Mai-Anh earns the NREL Director’s Fellowship.
November 14, 2017: Paper on metal–boron sub-lattice bonding and hardness in borides is accepted to Chem. Mater.
November 2, 2017: Our Chem. Mater. (2017, 29, 8555–8565) ranks among October’s top downloads.
November 2, 2017: A 2010 JPC A article by Anastassia appears in a Marie Curie 150th-anniversary virtual issue.
August 23, 2017: PJ receives the Undergraduate Research Scholarship for 2017–2018.
August 7, 2017: Huanchen passes the qualifying oral exam. 🎉
August 1, 2017: Elisa’s review on catalytic clusters is accepted to Annu. Rev. Phys. Chem.
July 31, 2017: JACS accepts our collaboration with Anderson’s group on B-tuned selectivity in dehydrogenation on supported Pt clusters.
May, 2017: Marie Victor (ENS Lyon) joins as a visiting scholar.
April 20, 2017: Amanda’s QTAIM analysis of electrostatic pre-organization in enzymes is accepted to Chem. Sci.
March 28, 2017: With Scott Anderson’s lab, we show ensemble representations are essential for size-dependent catalytic behavior (ACS Catal. accepted).
March 13, 2017: Zhihao predicts a new 2D boron sheet with anisotropic conductivity (J. Phys. Chem. Lett. accepted).
January 27, 2017: Huanchen’s viewpoint on fluxional catalytic clusters is accepted to ACS Catal.
December 6, 2016: Anastassia receives the Hanson-Dow Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Herbert Newby McCoy Award for research.
November 21, 2016: Mai-Anh is recognized with the Ernest F. Hare, Jr. Memorial Scholarship.
November 12, 2016: PJ wins a Seaborg Symposium poster prize.
September 22, 2016: Crystal and Amanda’s predictive metalloenzyme redesign (CPA case study) is accepted to PCCP.
September 15, 2016: We receive an XSEDE allocation — thanks to Elisa and the team.
August 26, 2016: Elisa predicts metallic/magnetic 2D materials with planar tetra-coordination; accepted in J. Phys. Chem. C (Gordon special issue).
August 17, 2016: PJ earns the Undergraduate Research Scholarship for 2016–2017.
July 15, 2016: PJ wins the SoCal AVS Elmer Carvey Scholarship.
July, 2016: New members join: grad students David Reilley and Chen Lin, plus CSST student Zhihao Cui.
June 23, 2016: Mai-Anh is awarded the Dissertation Year Fellowship.
June 2, 2016: Jiyuan Liu earns a competitive China Scholarship Council Fellowship to visit our group.
June 1, 2016: Elisa’s poster is promoted to a talk at the Cluster–Surface Interactions Symposium (ANL).
May 17, 2016: Raymond’s CSST summer research (with Spokoyny, Maynard, Gray) on B12 photoinitiators is accepted in JACS.
May 10, 2016: Mai-Anh’s work on oxygen vacancies in anatase is accepted to JCTC.
April–June, 2016: Anastassia spends sabbatical time in Philippe Sautet’s lab (ENS Lyon).
March 22, 2016: Mike’s HDAC8 metal-dependent catalysis paper is accepted to J. Phys. Chem. B (Gelbart Festschrift).
February 3, 2016: Anastassia receives a Fulbright Scholarship for the ENS Lyon sabbatical.
January 26, 2016: Talk at the Gordon Research Conference “Metals in Biology”.
January 14, 2016: Elisa receives a Basque Country Postdoctoral Fellowship.
January, 2016: Sabbatical begins at ETH Zürich in Prof. Donald Hilvert’s group (Mike joins for protein design).
December, 2015: Annual winter solstice gathering with friends near and far.
November 29, 2015: PJ’s second JPCA paper quantifies orbital roles under mechanical stress.
November 19, 2015: Mai-Anh’s collaboration with Steve Cronin’s group is accepted to Chem. Mater.
October 9, 2015: Anastassia wins the ACS Women Chemists Committee Rising Star Award.
October 8, 2015: Elisa gets a departmental travel award for the Spring ACS Meeting (San Diego).
October 8, 2015: Nathan’s phosphatase work with Prof. Hengge is accepted to Biochemistry.
September 16 & 18, 2015: Mai-Anh and Nathan pass their orals — advancement to candidacy.
September 12, 2015: Elisa’s PCCP paper on σ-aromatic TM hydrides is accepted.
September 3, 2015: Raymond is recognized for a top CSST final presentation (with Alex Spokoyny’s collaboration).
August 21, 2015: PJ’s first JCP paper (gas-phase Pt hydrides; with Kit Bowen’s lab) is accepted.
August 13, 2015: Jonny & Elisa show B-doping reduces sintering/coking in supported Pt clusters (ACS Catal.).
August 12, 2015: Mai-Anh’s Nano Lett. paper (with Cronin, USC) on CO2 photocatalysis with InP nanopillars/anatase defects is accepted.
July 2–6, 2015: Third International Conference on Chemical Bonding held in Hawaiʻi.
July, 2015: NSF supplement supports Mike’s upcoming ETH Zürich internship.
July, 2015: Daniel joins as a graduate student; Raymond visits via CSST.
June 13, 2015: Crystal graduates and serves as one of two doctoral hooding marshals. Congrats!
June 4, 2015: After Crystal’s Ph.D. seminar — celebration time!
May 29, 2015: Derek drops by in uniform. 🙂
May 11, 2015: PJ wins the UCLA Honors Summer Stipend.
May 5–8, 2015: Anastassia gives lectures at ETH Zürich and ENS Lyon.
April 27, 2015: Olivia is selected as an XSEDE Scholar for 2015–2016 — research stipend and conference support.
April 25, 2015: Program for ICCB-2015 goes live.
April 21, 2015: Incoming grad students Daniel Hatfield (Pitt) and Huanchen Zhai (Shandong) will join this summer. Welcome back, Huanchen!
April 20, 2015: Crystal accepts a postdoc with Ed Solomon at Stanford.
April 15, 2015: PJ receives a Sigma Xi grant; Huanchen’s FF-assisted global optimization paper is accepted to JCTC.
March 2015: PJ and Olivia present at the San Diego undergrad conference; Crystal is elected to the Bouchet Honor Society; Mike earns the Excellence in Chemical Research Fellowship; feature article (Crystal & Mike) accepted to J. Phys. Chem. B.
February 2015: Anjan’s VIP Angew. Chem. paper on surface carbides/borides/nitrides is accepted; Lu & Jonny’s sintering study (JPC C) accepted; Anastassia is promoted to Associate Professor with tenure.
January 2015: We welcome postdoc Elisa Jiménez from the Basque Country.
December 2014: Year-end party highlights!
October 30, 2014: Sean’s Pd-catalyzed hydroarylation mechanism paper is accepted to PCCP.
October 27, 2014: Tony’s second deoxycytidine kinase inhibitor paper is accepted to J. Med. Chem.
September 22, 2014: ICCB-2014 is featured on the cover of C&EN and highlights Crystal’s talk.
September 4, 2014: Mai-Anh’s ACS Catalysis paper shows special stability of rutile-deposited PtPd (50/50) clusters.
September 2, 2014: Mike advances to candidacy. 🎓
September 1, 2014: An Acc. Chem. Res. perspective is accepted.
July 24–28, 2014: Second International Conference on Chemical Bonding, Hawaiʻi.
July 20, 2014: Sean’s SOD1 Zn-role paper (with Dokholyan group) is accepted to J. Mol. Biol.
July 1, 2014: Huanchen and Caleb join as summer researchers.
May 28, 2014: Anastassia receives the NSF CAREER Award; Crystal wins the Dissertation Year Fellowship.
May 22, 2014: Lu reports Pt/PtZn clusters switching between flat and upright on MgO (PCCP special issue).
April 29, 2014: Nathan’s first paper (with Crystal) on Co-ARD mechanism is accepted to Chem. Phys. Lett.
April 28, 2014: The sigma-aromatic PtZn hydride paper (with Kit Bowen) is highlighted in Chemistry World.
April 16, 2014: Our PtZn hydride exhibiting σ-aromaticity and unusual 5-fold flat Pt coordination is accepted to J. Phys. Chem. Lett.
April 14, 2014: Mixed PtAl anions: theory + experiment accepted to JCP.
February 21, 2014: Anastassia joins the Scientific Reports Editorial Board.
February 7, 2014: Anastassia receives the Glenn T. Seaborg Award (UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry).
November 6, 2013: Appointed to J. Phys. Chem. Editorial Advisory Board.
October 1, 2013: Class paper (Chem 126/226) on semiconductor-cluster bonding is accepted to Chem. Phys. Lett.
Week of July 29, 2013: LAHSA summer school hosted 6 students this year.
July 11, 2013: ARD metal-dependence paper selected for a J. Mol. Biol. cover — congrats to the “bicycle team”.
July 4–8, 2013: International Conference on Chemical Bonding, Hawaiʻi.
June 25, 2013: “Golden crown” boosts activity of Pd/TiO2 cluster catalysts (JPC Lett. accepted).
May 2, 2013: ARD metal-dependent performance accepted to J. Mol. Biol.
May 8, 2013: Jin receives the MBI Postdoctoral Recognition Award.
February 28, 2013: Crystal is selected to attend the 63rd Lindau Nobel Laureates Meeting (one of ~70 US students).
February 14, 2013: Sloan Research Fellowship awarded to Anastassia.
December 4, 2012: Crystal passes her oral exam — candidacy achieved.
November 5, 2012: Jonny Dadras joins as a postdoc.
October 29, 2012: Spectroscopy of propantheline bromide accepted to Spectrochim. Acta A.
October, 2012: Department trip: UChicago, Northwestern, and Pitt.
October 19, 2012: Flexible-flap role in β-lactamase binding/hydrolysis accepted to JCTC.
October 12, 2012: Arg-rich viral peptides form pores in membranes (not Lys-rich) — accepted to JACS (with Wong & Tew).
September 10, 2012: Metal-dependent COMT performance accepted to PLoS ONE.
September 3, 2012: HMGB1a recognition of Pt–DNA adducts (with Dokholyan) accepted to Biochemistry.
August 10, 2012: Crystal’s first paper compares Nature’s metal choices in urease vs β-lactamase (J. Phys. Chem. B).
August 9, 2012: Vanadate bound at phosphatase VHZ accepted to JACS (Communication).
August 6–10, 2012: LAHSA summer school runs again!
August 1, 2012: Tony Smith joins as a postdoc.
July 19, 2012: Boron motor highlighted widely in the media; separate PCCP paper reports a cluster with planar tetracoordinate Si.
July 9, 2012: Welcome to summer graduate student Mike Nechay (Ohio State).
July, 2012: Keynote at ICYRAM (Singapore) + seminar at NUS.
July 1, 2012: Sean Nedd joins as a postdoc (from Mark Gordon’s group).
June, 2012: Anastassia chairs the Theory Section at the GRC on Catalysis; also co-organizes a QM/MD reactivity satellite meeting for ICQC.
June 21, 2012: Jin reports a photo-driven molecular motor, B13− (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., VIP).
June 18, 2012: QM/DMD debuts in a Biophysical Journal paper; Mioy and Diana receive B.S. degrees — congrats!
May, 2012: Dr. Natalya Burmistrova (Saratov University) visits the group.
March–February, 2012: NSF fellowship for Mioy; ACS meeting travel; fellowships for Crystal (Gordon Conf.) and Anastassia (ICYRAM); first report of all-metal aromaticity in supported Pd4/TiO2 (JPC Lett.); AO-hybridization governs cluster shapes (Chem. Phys. Lett.); visits from Alina Sergeeva and the Boldyrev group.
November 23, 2011: Argonne supercomputer time awarded.
October 14, 2011: Crystal receives a travel award for the Spring ACS Meeting.
October 13, 2011: Two acceptances: Jin’s Pd/TiO2 clusters (J. Chem. Phys.) and Anastassia’s glycine decomposition (J. Phys. Chem. B).
September, 2011: Internal UCLA nomination for the Searle Award (biomedical research).
July 22, 2011: LiBnAl6−n− clusters: competition between covalent and delocalized bonding accepted to JPC Lett. (Congrats, Mioy!).
July 1, 2011: Welcome new Ph.D. students Abbas Mulla and Elon Weintraub.
June 2011: Book chapter on electronic-level QM insights into biological processes accepted (Springer); Senate Faculty Research Grant awarded.
May 2011: Faculty Career Development Award; ACS PRF research grant; supercomputer time at EMSL; multiple student fellowships (Kivelson; Stone) awarded to Diana Yu.
May 12, 2011: DARPA Young Investigator Award — party time!
April 2011: Jordan Ramilowski joins; Mioy selected for CARE summer research fellowship; Crystal wins an NSF Graduate Fellowship.
March 20, 2011: Manuel finishes the LA Marathon in 3:38 — bravo!
Spring 2011: Senior Fellow Participant at IPAM’s program “Navigating Chemical Compound Space”.
February 2011: Bioinformatics paper on rigid structure search accepted; invited review on artificial Kemp eliminase design accepted to Molecular Simulation.
January 3, 2011: Mioy wins a URFP scholarship to do research in our lab.
December 6, 2010: Lithium cluster anions paper accepted to J. Chem. Phys.
November 24, 2010: Anastassia receives the ACS Younger Chemists Committee Leadership Development Award.
October 28, 2010: Updated GA-QM method for finding global minima (microsolvated H in water clusters) accepted to J. Phys. Chem. A.
October 7, 2010: Jin Zhang joins the group.
September 1, 2010: Mioy Huynh joins as an undergraduate researcher; Manuel Sparta also joins the group.
August 22–26, 2010: Invited talk at the ACS National Meeting (Boston); session chair for “Electrons in Biomolecules”.
August 17, 2010: AAG DNA glycosylase selectivity mechanism accepted to Biophys. Chem.
August 16, 2010: Photochemistry of small DNA fragments accepted to J. Phys. Chem. B.
July 1, 2010: Crystal Valdez joins the lab.
June 27–July 2, 2010: Poster at the GRC on Catalysis — artificial enzymes for Kemp elimination.
June 21, 2010: Luan Vu joins the group.
May 3, 2010: Department Faculty Lunch Seminar: “DNA damage and repair — theoretical insights”.
April 24, 2010: Our share of the UCLA compute cluster is up and running.
April 7, 2010: Travel grant awarded for the Catalysis GRC.
March 19, 2010: NSF + GRC organizers support Anastassia’s attendance at the Catalysis GRC.
May 1, 2010: Official birthday of the laboratory 🎂