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
9/30/24 – First year graduate students Cesar, James, Katerina, Max and Rehan begin their fall rotations. Welcome to the Sletten group!
9/30/24 – Our work led by Anthony on nonamethine chromenylium dyes is now available on ChemRxiv.
9/30/24 – Today we say goodbye to Dr.’s Garcia, Garcia, and Spearman. Congrats and best of luck! You will all be missed.
9/24/24 – The group takes a break from lab to watch one of the final Dodgers v. Padres games of the season. Go Dodgers!
9/17/24 – Huge congratulations to Ellen and our collaborator, Oliver Bruns, for receiving the prestigious 2024 Helmholtz High Impact Award in Berlin! Check out their work here.
9/7/24 – What better way to celebrate our 2024 PhD graduates than bbq, cake, and homemade ice cream? Congratulations to Dr’s Garcia, Garcia, and Spearman!! You will be missed.
9/4/24 – Congrats to Helen and Irene! Fluorofluorophores with improved brightness and photostability are now available at Chem Eur J.
9/1/24 – Emily receives a 2024 UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center (JCCC) Graduate Student Fellowship. Congratulations!
8/30/24 – Our work led by Quintashia on flavylium merocyanine dyes is now available on ChemRxiv.
8/21/24 – Kaitlin and Ellen both give outstanding talks at ACS Fall 2024! We’re so proud of you.
8/13/24 – Look out UCLA, we officially have Sletten lab PhD candidate #24 on the loose! Congrats Devon, amazing work.
8/5/24 – First year graduate students Aditya and Ben begin their summer rotations. Welcome to the Sletten group!
7/1/24 – Ellen is promoted to the rank of full Professor! Congratulations on this phenomenal achievement!
6/24/24 – Congrats to Joseph and Ashley! Their work on biotin-initiated poly(oxazoline)s is now available at Macromolecules.
6/17/24 – Our work led by Helen on counterion exchange of a fluorofluorophore is now preprinted at ChemRxiv.
6/14/24 – Today we celebrate all of our BS and MS graduates. Congrats to Maggie, Neel, Jon, Nika, and Ashley!
6/10/24 – Maggie wraps up with a poster presentation at the MACS symposium. Great work!
6/4/24 – Congratulations to Joseph for giving an excellent exit seminar on his work on custom poly(oxazolines)!
5/21/24 – Sangeeta, Ella, Paige, Emily, and Quintashia are recognized at the annual Chemistry and Biochemistry department awards ceremony. Congrats to everyone for all their hard work this year!
5/14/24 – Our undergrads presented their first posters at UCLA’s SMACS Chemistry Undergraduate Poster Session. Great work everyone, and congrats to Nika for winning best poster!
4/12/24 – Congrats to Devon for being selected as an Honorable Mention for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
4/1/24 – This quarter, we welcome first year PhD student Jesus to the group!
3/25/24 – An exciting day for the Sletten group–Our collaboration led by Eric with the Delcamp group is now available at Nature Chemistry; and our collaboration led by Heidi and Joseph with the Campàs group is now preprinted at Chemrxiv!