Garg Lab UCLA

Here is our spin-off project from The Organic Coloring Book series, where OChem now comes to life in animations for the public. You can follow Cheesy The Mouse on YouTube or TikTok. Please share & more videos to come!  @ucla @2XDc @uclachem youtu.be/K5M8v528vkE?si…

Happy for our lab to play a very small role in a new study led by @houk1000 on how HHCs bind to the cannabinoid receptors.  Check it out in #ACSChemBio and congrats to all authors! Read it here: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Congrats to lab members Sarah (@Teamfrench_) and Allison (@Allisonc2001s), who each won poster prizes at the Heron10 and NOS 2025 conferences respectively! @uclachem #Heron10 #NOS2025 #WomenInSTEM

We recently welcomed an awesome postdoctoral fellow, Marie! Marie joins us from Stockholm University, where she completed her Ph.D. studies with Prof. Kálmán Szabó. In her free time, Marie enjoys traveling and swimming outdoors! @Stockholm_Uni @uclachem

And finally, good luck to Dr. Luca McDermott Catena as he begins his postdoctoral work with @SarpongGroup at @UCB_Chemistry! Congrats again to all of our 2025 grads! 🎓 @uclachem

Best of luck to Dr. Arismel Tena Meza as she heads to Foster City, CA to begin her position @GileadSciences as a process chemist🧪🧲!

We wish Dr. Dominick Witkowski all the best as he embarks upon his process chemistry journey @Amgen in Thousand Oaks, CA! 😎☀️

We were so excited to celebrate our newest grads recently: Dr. Dominick Witkowski, Dr. Arismel Tena Meza, and Dr. Luca McDermott Catena! 🎉📷 @uclachem @UCLA_Alumni

We are 4 for 4 with new Ph.D. candidates! Congrats to Giulianna, and to all of our now 3rd year students for crushing candidacy! @uclachem

The celebrations continue! Congratulations to Christina for passing her candidacy exam! @uclachem

Another candidate! Congrats to Ben (@ben_janda1), who crushed his candidacy exam! @uclachem

As the end of the quarter quickly approaches, we will be preparing for a bittersweet goodbye with our newest doctors, Ari, Dom, and Luca. Stay tuned to see what these three are up to next! 🥲🥂

Congratulations to our newest Ph.D. Candidate Allison, who passed her candidacy exam with flying colors! @Allisonc2001s @uclachem

Congratulations to Garg Lab alum Tejas, who was recently named one of C&EN’s Talented Twelve for 2025! @uclachem

Congrats to all, including our very own soon-to-be Dr. Luca McDermott!

Now online: Article by Dominick C. Witkowski, Daniel W. Turner, Ana S. Bulger, @houk1000 & Neil K. Garg @garglab @uclachem @ucla Synthesis and reactivity of nitrogen-containing strained cyclic 1,2,3-trienes nature.com/articles/s4416… ($)

We are thrilled to share our latest study, just published in @NatureSynthesis, on azacyclic 1,2,3-trienes. Congrats to Dominick, Dani, and Ana! nature.com/articles/s4416… @ucla @uclachem @houk1000

Now online: Review by Luca McDermott, Zach Walters, Allison Clark & Neil Garg @garglab @uclachem @uclachem Geometric distortion as an enabling tool for organic synthesis nature.com/articles/s4416… ($)