Welcome to the Mitochondrial Metabolism and Bioenergetics Laboratory! Our group studies how energy metabolism and metabolic flexibility – the ability to switch between sugar, amino acid, and fatty acid oxidation in response to biological cues – can control cell function and fate. Ultimately, we aim to discover novel regulatory points of metabolism and develop mitochondrial proteins and pathways as therapeutic drug targets.
Research
Welcome to our newest lab member!
September, 2024
We want to extend a big welcome to our newest lab member Alex Kratochwill! Alex is a rising 2nd-year PhD student in the Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Physiology department at UCLA. We are so excited to see all Alex will accomplish in lab!
Congrats to Andréa for her summer internship!
September, 2024
We want to congratulate Andréa on completing a summer internship at Amgen in South San Francisco in their oncology department! Through her Chemistry-Biology Training grant, Andréa had the opportunity to participate in an industry-sponsored summer internship.
