Metabolic Biology

James Olzmann

Professor
MBN Faculty
Metabolic Biology
Molecular Toxicology
lipid droplet, lipotoxicity, ferroptosis, ubiquitin, proteasome, ER protein quality control, metabolism, cancer, drug resistance, metabolic disease

Gunes Parlakgul

Assistant Professor
MBN Faculty
Metabolic Biology
Research Description

Metabolism underpins life by driving critical functions such as bioenergetic reactions, the synthesis of essential macromolecules, detoxification, and the maintenance of homeostasis. These processes are fundamental to cellular and organismal viability. However, the biochemical reactions and enzymes are not homogeneously distributed in a cell, but rather compartmentalized in organelles and their specialized sub-domains. The shape, distribution, interaction, and overall organization of organelles in specialized tissues vary at different spatial and temporal scales,...

Veerle Rottiers

Assistant Adjunct Professor
MBN Faculty
Metabolic Biology
About Veerle Rottiers

Dr. Rottiers recieved her PhD from Ghent University working on C. elegans hormonal regulation in the lab of Adam Antebi. She did her postdoctoral work at MGH Cancer Center/Harvard Medical School in Boston studying conserved regulation of lipid homeostasis.
In 2013, Dr. Rottiers moved to the Molecular Biology and Genetics Department at Cornell as an independant researcher where she secured funding from the American Heart Association as well as the National Institute on aging (NIA/NIH) for her work on metabolism and aging in C. elegans .
She joined the...

Robert Saxton

Assistant Professor
Metabolic Biology

Andreas Stahl

Professor
MBN Faculty
Metabolic Biology
Endocrinology
Molecular Toxicology
metabolism, obesity, adipose tissue, brown fat, thermogenesis, tissue engineering, diabetes, fatty acid transport, fatty acid, stem cells, microphysiological systems, lipid nanoparticles, liver disease

Hei Sook Sul

Professor
MBN Faculty
Metabolic Biology
Endocrinology
biochemistry, molecular and cellular biology, physiology of adipogenesis, thermogenesis, lipogenesis and lipolysis

Denis Titov

Assistant Professor
MBN Faculty
Metabolic Biology
Center for Computational Biology
Molecular and Cell Biology
Molecular Toxicology
Metabolism, aging, systems biology, computational biology

Christian Vaisse

Vera M. Long Endowed Chair in Diabetes Research Professor, UCSF
Metabolic Biology

About Christian Vaisse
To read more about Dr. Vaisse, please click here to be redirected to the Diabetes Center at UCSF website:

https://diabetes.ucsf.edu/people/christian-vaisse

Martin Valdearcos

Assistant Professor
Metabolic Biology
About Martin Valdearcos

Dr. Valdearcos received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Valladolid in Spain. He then completed his post-doctoral training in Dr. Koliwad’s lab at UCSF. Since July 2024, Dr. Valdearcos has been a principal investigator leading his own laboratory in the Diabetes Center at UCSF.
Dr. Valdearcos has a long-standing interest in understanding the role of microglia in the hypothalamic regulation of energy and glucose homeostasis. Microglia are emerging as critical regulators of brain homeostasis and his laboratory is dedicated to...

Jen Chywan Wang

Professor
MBN Faculty
Metabolic Biology
Endocrinology
Molecular Toxicology
Molecular Physiology of Steroid Hormones Glucocorticoids and Angiopoietin-like Proteins