2015, Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry for leading the team that “unboiled an egg” 2013, Short-listed textbook (Introduction to Bioorganic Chemistry and Chemical Biology by D.L. Van Vranken and G.A. Weiss) by the Society of Biology in the best undergraduate textbook category 2013, Elected Fellow of the AAAS 2007-2008, Outstanding Professor from the U.C. Irvine School of Physical Sciences, selected by the graduating seniors 2004, U.C. Irvine, School of Physical Sciences, Award for Contributions to Undergraduate Education 2002-2004, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation Young Investigator 1997, NIH Post-doctoral fellowship (funding returned to the NIH)

Analytical/Chemical Biology/Organic and Synthetic/Polymer/Materials/Nanoscience

Bioorganic chemistry, chemical biology, protein engineering, molecular biology, biochemistry, biophysics, bioengineering and diagnostics

Britton, J., Dyer, R.P., Majumdar, S., Raston, C.L.*, Weiss, G.A.* (2017). Ten-minute protein purification and surface tethering for continuous-flow biocatalysis. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 56: 2296-2301. Ogata, A., Edgar, J.M., Majumdar, S., Briggs, J.S., Patterson, S., Tan, M.X., Kudlacek, S.T., Schneider, C.A., Weiss, G.A.*, Penner, R.M.* (2017). A virus-enabled biosensor for human serum albumin. Anal. Chem. 89: 1373-1381. Britton, J., Raston, C.L.*, Weiss, G.A.* (2016). Rapid protein immobilization for thin film continuous flow biocatalysis. Chem. Commun. 52: 10159-10162. Britton, J., Meneghini, L.M., Raston, C.L.*, Weiss, G.A.* (2016). Accelerating enzymatic catalysis using vortex fluidics. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 55: 11387-11391. Gul, O.T., Pugliese, K.M., Choi, Y., Sims, P.C., Pan, D., Rajapakse, A.J., Weiss, G.A.*, Collins, P.G.* (2016). Single molecule bioelectronics and their application to amplification-free measurement of DNA lengths. Biosensors. 6: 29. Special Issue on Graphene and Carbon Nanotube Based Biosensors. Britton, J., Castle, J.W., Weiss, G.A.*, Raston, C.L.* (2016). Harnessing thin film continuous flow assembly lines. Chem.-Eur. J. 22: 10773-10776. Britton, J., Smith, J.N., Raston, C.L.*, Weiss, G.A.* (2016). Protein folding using a vortex fuidic device. Methods Mol. Biol. In press. Gilliam, A.J.H., Smith, J.N., Flather, D., Johnston, K.M., Gansmiller, A.M., Fishman, D.A., Edgar, J.M., Balk, M., Majumdar, S., Weiss, G.A. (2016). Affinity-guided design of caveolin-1 ligands for deoligomerization. J. Med. Chem. 59: 4019-4025. Mohan, K., Weiss, G.A.* (2016). Chemically modifying viruses for diverse applications. ACS Chem. Biol. 11: 1167-1169.