It's the start of the new academic year! We want to welcome all the new graduate and undergraduate students to the department and hope that you all have a successful and fulfilling semester! #SDSU #chem #biochem

We are happy to resume our department research seminars with presentation by Prof. Shane Gonen from UCI Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences. He will be discussing his work on the "Design and CryoEM applications of protein nanomaterial. The talk will take place in GMCS-301 at 2:00 PM all are welcome to attend

New in Angewandte Chemie, the Yan lab describes a highly selective allylic C-H amination via a perovskite photocatalyst! A halogen/hydrogen transfer mechanism leads to a broad scope of C-H amination products, from natural products to drug derivatives.buff.ly/3ZeKJk3

We are pleased to welcome Prof. Min Kim from Chungbuk National University in Seoul South Korea to present his recent developments for selective MOF-based catalysts for oxidation of primary alcohols in our weekly department seminar!

I'm very excited to share our new preprint, "Single-molecule detection of oligonucleotides using the fluorescent nucleobase analogue ABN" on ChemRxiv. Congrats to the great team members & collaborators who made this possible! go.shr.lc/4dq43P2

Dr. Cooksy was on sabbatical at MIT last year, but now he's back to share his research findings and experiences with the department this Friday at 2:00 pm in GMCS 301.

It's wonderful to see our students making an impact in and out of the lab! PhD student Kristine Legaspi's science outreach efforts were recently featured in C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News)! Read more about her combining crochet with chemistry here: buff.ly/4exyZ0Y

This Friday's departmental seminar will be given by Dr. Charlie Cox from Duke University. Dr. Cox's work probes student creativity in learning organic chemistry. Come by GMCS-301 at 2:00 pm to learn more about how Dr. Cox is going about answering these challenging questions.

This Friday we'll have three scientists from Pfizer in La Jolla sharing their experiences in drug discovery work. Titled "Pfizer Drug Discovery Overview and ALK Program Vignette: A Tale of Two Compounds" the presenters will be Madeline Berry, Francisco Silva, & Michelle Tran-Dubé

Join us tomorrow (Oct. 31) for a special seminar from Prof. Paul Kempler from the University of Oregon. Paul Kempler will be discussing his research into exciting new electrochemical ironmaking processes, as well as his perspectives on new careers in green and sustainable energy.

Join us Friday for our regular department seminar. This week's speaker is Prof. Aurélien de la Torre from the ICMMO. @auredelatorre's seminar will discuss his group's developments in asymmetric catalysis and dual catalysis and their applications to a total synthesis problem.

The guest speaker for our seminar this Friday will be Dr. Lesley Litt, President of Crystal-Flex Packaging Corporation. Trained as a polymer chemist, Dr. Litt is now running a company focused on producing flexible barriers for food and medical product preservation.

If you are interested in pursuing a #graduate degree in #chemistry or #biochemistry consider joining our department. There are exciting opportunities in all subdisciplines for all levels of graduate #research! buff.ly/3CorF9G

Our guest seminar speaker this Friday Dec 6th will be Prof. Ming Wang from UC Riverside. His presentation will discuss his work building computational tools to benefit mass spectrometry data analysis, particularly from a crowdsourcing perspective.