Research Highlight Archive

2021

New insights into tau protein aggregation in neurodegenerative disease from the Han group is published in PNAS. See The Current news article and journal article for more information.

 

Gui Bazan's research program is featured in the Advanced Materials Hall of Fame. Read the news highlight and review article.

 

Pettus group reports the biomimetic synthesis of microtubule inhibitor paecilospirone. See the Synlett article and accompanying news.

 

Study from the Han group shows that a key Alzheimer’s protein forms liquid droplets that favor pathological aggregation. See the PLoS Biology article and the news report in the Current(Image credit: Peter Allen)

2016

Shedding light on a dark solution: new insights into the classic iodine-starch reaction from the Seshadri and Wudl groups published in Angewandte Chemie. 
Click here for the article and report in The Current.

2015

Professor Guillermo Bazan

Four UCSB chemistry faculty members are named Highly Cited Researchers of 2015 by Thomson Reuters. Professors Gui Bazan, Craig Hawker, Alan Heeger, and Thuc-Quyen Nguyen were included on this prestigious list of leading researchers. This list honors investigators having multiple papers with the top 1% of citations in their discipline.
 

 

Butler Group Research Study

New study led by the Butler group published in ScienceHow mussels stick to wet surfaces.

 

New advance in green chemistry published in Science by the Lipshutz group: inexpensive nanoparticles catalyze a C-C bond-forming reaction.