Check out this student spotlight of Clarissa!
December, 2025
An undergraduate researcher in the lab, Clarissa, was recently highlighted with a student spotlight through the UCLA Undergraduate Research Center – Sciences! Follow this link to read her interview.
Congratulations to PhD Candidate, Alex!
November, 2025
Congratulations to 3rd-year graduate student Alex on passing her qualifying exam and advancing to candidacy! Alex will be studying the role of mitochondria in retinal pigment epithelial cells in collaboration with the Williams Lab in the UCLA Stein Eye Institute. We are very proud of Alex and excited to see all she will accomplish as a candidate in the lab!
Welcome Summer 2025 Trainees!
July, 2025
We want to extend a big welcome to Steven Moreton who will be joining us for the summer from Morehouse School of Medicine. Steven is a fifth year PhD student and will be applying some techniques from our lab to his studies on brown adipocytes.
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.
