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
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.
Wishing Anthony luck with his next adventure!
July, 2024
We want to wish congratulations to Anthony as he begins his next chapter as a medical student at UCLA! We are so proud of Anthony for being awarded a full-ride medical school scholarship through L.A. Care’s Elevating the Safety Net Scholarship Program. While he will be greatly missed in lab, we are excited to see him begin his journey towards improving patients’ lives.
