Welcome!
The Sletten Group takes a multidisciplinary approach towards the creation of enhanced nanotherapeutics, shortwave infrared diagnostics, and new chemical tools to study living systems. Research within the group involves a mix of organic synthesis, fluorous chemistry, chemical biology, self-assembly, polymer synthesis, photophysics, nanomedicine, and pharmacology.
Recent News
4/4/25 – Our work led by Cesar on palladium-catalyzed functionalization of fluorophores is now available at JACS Au. Congrats to Cesar and team!
4/1/25 – Ellen and Emily are off to Germany to work with the Bruns and Campàs labs this spring!
3/27/25 – Ellen, Emily, and Paige give talks at the Spring ACS meeting. Always fun sharing our science with the community!
3/21/25 – Ethan and Devon present posters at UCLA’s annual Seaborg conference. Great work!
3/20/25 – Today we celebrated Rey officially joining the lab, and Nika heading off to her next adventure as an MD/PhD student with a group lunch. Cheers to Rey and Nika!
3/4/25 – Flavylium merocyanine dyes are now available at Analytical Chemistry. Excellent work Quintashia, and team. Congrats!
2/27/25 – Emily is selected as a Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds travel grant recipient to visit Prof. Bruns’ research group at NCT Dresden in the Spring. Way to go!
2/21/25 – Our work led by Joseph on acid-cleavable poly(oxazoline) surfactants is now available at Polymer Chemistry. Congrats to Joseph, Katie and Ashley!
2/18/25 – Emily and Paige receive UCLA Chemistry and Biochemistry department fellowships to present their research at the UCLA ACS Spring 2025 showcase. Congrats!
2/14/25 – The Sletten group is now on Bluesky! Follow us here for the latest updates in the group.
2/12/25 – Check out Luke Lavis’ feature article on the Chromenylium Stars era of SWIR fluorophores in ACS Cent. Sci.–”Stars by the Pocketful“. Congrats to Emily and team!
1/6/25 – Cheers to a new year and a new first year graduate rotation student! Welcome to the Sletten group, Rey.
12/21/24 – Congrats to Emily and Eric!! Their work on chromenylium star polymers is now available at ACS Cent. Sci.
12/19/24 – Congrats to Kaitlin! Her work on olympicene functionalization is now available at J. Org. Chem.
12/12/24 – In Sletten group tradition, we celebrated our lab birthday at none other than Santa Monica Brew Works! Cheers to another great year ahead.