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Welcome to UC San Diego Chemistry & Biochemistry
San Diego, California
Joined May 2011
.@KomorLab is at the cutting edge of curing #GeneticDisorders. Her team is working to develop the most precise, efficient base-editing tools. And none of it would be possible without federal research funding. https://t.co/KmXMpkHnIW
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In a series of videos, graduate students and researchers in biochemistry professor Alexis Komor's lab share what they're working on and the importance of federal funding.
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Our @UCSanDiego School of Medicine 2025 recipients of the prestigious Revelle Medal were recently presented with their awards by Chancellor Pradeep Khosla. The Revelle Medal is the highest honor awarded by the university to recognize faculty members. 🏅
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Big congratulations to Prof. Bertrand on his election as a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences! 🎉 His pioneering work on stable carbenes and main-group radicals has reshaped inorganic and organometallic chemistry. https://t.co/tNEekuFHUN
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Congrats to @UCSDAstro's Dusan Keres and @KomorLab on making the 2025 list of #HighlyCitedResearchers for their contributes extending the frontiers of knowledge and to innovations that make the world healthier and more sustainable.” @UCSDChemBiochem
https://t.co/MsB0c8Iw3H
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"No phone battery actually removes 100% of the lithium,” notes Prof. Kent Griffith (@UCSDChemBiochem) as he demystifies how Li-ion phone batteries age and what that means for charging to 100%. Read his @techradar interview: https://t.co/gwKXFk3DtY
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Is hitting full charge really bad for your phone?
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🚨 New @J_A_C_S paper from the Kubiak Lab! NHC anchoring lets a Re #CO2‑reduction catalyst graft onto Au, forming a durable, electroactive monolayer and widening the window for operando studies. 🚀 @UCSanDiego @UCSDPhySci
https://t.co/55VxgskiCr
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Electrode-bound molecular species provide a powerful platform for probing interfacial electric field effects on immobilized catalysts. However, common surface anchoring groups such as thiols and...
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We are hosting two talks by Professor Wei Xiong on Polaritonic Chemistry. Today's talk at 9:30 AM IST is TUTORIAL on light-matter strong coupling while tomorrow he will present his latest research @TIFRScience
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https://t.co/oIossky3Pv
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Congrats to Prof. Vicki Grassian on delivering @UCSanDiego’s 2025 Distinguished Research Award Lecture. Inspiring talk on the role of #interfaces in human, ecosystem & planetary health. @UCSDPhySci #EnvironmentalChemistry #Sustainability
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In @J_A_C_S, the Romero Lab reports an electrochemical C–H method that turns polystyrene into tunable sulfonium polyelectrolytes, then uses light to defunctionalize back to polystyrene — paving a path to circular plastics. @UCSanDiego @UCSDPhySci
https://t.co/8aUrQ5TKNj
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Covalent modification of simple commodity polymers by C–H functionalization is an efficient way to access new structure–property characteristics and a promising strategy for repurposing plastic...
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Congratulations to @UCSDPhysics' Leonid Butov and @UCSDChemBiochem's Wei Xiong on being named fellows of the American Physical Society! 🎉 @APSphysics
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Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Joel Yuen-Zhou (@ucsd_yuen, @UCSDChemBiochem) "doesn’t fit neatly into a box and neither does his work." Learn more via this excellent interview from @UCSanDiego! https://t.co/Jr8PldjJw6
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UC San Diego chemistry professor Joel Yuen-Zhou doesn’t fit neatly into a box and neither does his work. He was born and raised in Mexico City to Chinese immigrants. As a theoretical physical...
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Congratulations to @UCSDChemBiochem's Haiwang Yong for receiving the Early Career Research Program Award from the Department of Energy! 🎉 @energy
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🚨 Out in @J_A_C_S! Tezcan Lab’s de novo metalloprotein PW1 forms a synthetic di‑Cu paddlewheel center and shows a −0.085 V reduction potential (pH 7.0), the most negative for a Cu protein. @UCSanDiego @UCSDPhySci
https://t.co/ejmIsG2ptO
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A metal-centered design approach was used to design a tetrameric protein assembly, PW1, with a new-to-nature metal center inspired by the structures of transition metal paddlewheel complexes such as...
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Congrats to the 2025 recipients of the prestigious Revelle Medal -- incl @UCSDChemBiochem professor emeritus Ed Dennis -- the highest honor awarded by UC San Diego to recognize faculty for sustained, distinguished and extraordinary service to the campus. https://t.co/iTPGvqxThs
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🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Our latest paper on #datadriven #manybody potentials is out in @JCIM_JCTC! 🎉 👉 https://t.co/kIotcO7u4m In this study, we demonstrate CCSD(T)-level accuracy in simulating a small #biomolecule (polyalanine) in explicit #water! 🏄♀️ Our #manybody
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And that’s a wrap for #SMLQC2025! 🖥️ Huge congratulations to @EtBuVu! 🙌 @UCSanDiego @UCSDPhySci @UCSDChemBiochem @HDSIUCSD @SDSC_UCSD
We’re at #SMLQC2025! ⚛️ ( https://t.co/eyZXCZBflY) Ethan, Xuanyu, Xinmao, and Francesco presented our latest work on #datadriven #manybody potentials for #biomolecules 🧬 and our development of permutationally invariant fourier series (PIFS) as a robust mathematical basis that
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Researchers in @ucsd_yuen's la show that light-matter hybrids, known as polaritons, not only behave optically, but also quantumly, opening new directions for quantum photonic technologies. Their work appears in @OpticaWorldwide. https://t.co/UNEg3DM26C
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UC San Diego researchers show that light-matter hybrids, known as polaritons, not only behave optically, but also quantumly.
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Calling all #Bioinorganic folks in Southern California! Join us for the 2025 SoCal Bioinorganic Symposium at UCLA on November 8, 2025. Submit your abstract for a poster or talk by October 25 → https://t.co/lt0Zbn99wL
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Congratulations to Prof. Wei Xiong on being elected @APSphysics Fellow! 🎉 Honored for leveraging photonic platforms to advance chemical physics, from polariton chemistry for energy-efficient reactions to hyperspectral imaging in complex systems. https://t.co/c8ik4CQvYw
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Congratulations, Ethan!
And that’s a wrap for #SMLQC2025! 🖥️ Huge congratulations to @EtBuVu! 🙌 @UCSanDiego @UCSDPhySci @UCSDChemBiochem @HDSIUCSD @SDSC_UCSD
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