Prof. Sandra Loesgen wins the inaugural Gator Angel Wing Award

Through the generous support of Dr. Nicholas Conti and Amy Fox Conti, this award supports bringing innovative research from the lab to the market. Read more here.

UF Chemistry wins big at the AI Research Awards

Prof. Adrian Roitberg received the AI Research Excellence Award, Prof. Mingjie Liu and Namindu Rangana De Silva won the HiPerGator Early Career Awards, and Profs. Alberto Perez and Mingjie Liu and their labs won HiPerGator Pioneering Team Awards. Click to read the UF News article.

Gainesville families explore hands-on science at Molecular Mania

This year’s event was the 20th anniversary of Molecular Mania and featured 29 hands-on stations and roughly 180 volunteers.

Michelin Science Scholar, Cesar Dominguez, explores sustainable alternatives to plastics

Cesar, a 4th year UF Chemistry and Physics double major, and Prof. Austin Evans studies how to process ultra-high molecular weight polymers through powerful electric fields. Click to read the UF News article.

Perez Lab wins international AI protein design competition

Utilizing HiPerGator, the Perez Lab Gators designed the best protein binder out of 12,000 submissions in the Bits to Binders competition. Click to read the CLAS News article.

New DNA-Based Imaging Technique Promises to Illuminate Cells and Tissues

UF researchers have developed a DNA-based imaging method that can visualize dozens of biomolecular targets in cells and tissues in just minutes, eliminating the need for complicated instrumentation. This method opens the door to exploring cellular complexity to study cell and tissue functions.

Electrochemistry Unlocks Low-Temperature Depolymerization

A new study from UF Chemistry introduces the first electrochemically initiated depolymerization of poly(methyl methacrylate), enabling efficient monomer recovery at dramatically lower temperatures. Led by graduate student Graham Gilchrist and coadvised by Profs. Brent Sumerlin and Austin Evans, the work establishes electrochemistry as a powerful new tool for closed-loop recycling of commodity plastics.

FARSIGHT: a new RNA-based light switch speeds disease testing

Asst. Prof. Fan Hong develops a new system, FARSIGHT, to act as a programmable molecular switch that can identify genetic sequences. Click to read the UF News article.

UF researchers identify new cancer-killing compounds

UF researchers, including Prof. Ron Castellano, have advanced a promising strategy to selectively target cancer cells while sparing healthy tissue. Click to read the UF Dr. Gator News article.

New technique builds advanced materials out of basic plastics

The Sumerlin group has devised a novel “subtractive” technique to turn everyday plastics into highly porous, high-surface-area materials. Click to read the UF News article.