Teitell Lab

Please rt: the Teitell lab is hiring!! Our group is looking for post docs to join us @dgsomucla @UCLA_Pathology. Ideal for new PhD/PDs. For more information about projects check out: teitell-lab.dgsom.ucla.edu/pages/positions

Experience a #DayInTheLife of @UCLAstemcell trainee Mary Doan, a @UCLA PhD candidate working to uncover therapeutic targets to manipulate metabolism in both health and disease in the lab of Dr. Michael Teitell @TeitellLab. 🍵👩🏻‍🔬🏞️ Credit: Joseph Doan

Congrats to Shail Patel for being picked for the UCLA Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Outstanding Senior Award!

Spending the day at our @ucla @UCLAHealthJCCC #cancer center retreat led by director Mike Teitell @TeitellLab #nano

Science #ElevatorPitch: @vmartirosianphd, a postdoctoral scholar in the @TeitellLab @UCLA, studies subtle changes inside cells to shed light on the causes of neurodevelopmental conditions like #autism. #RegenerativeMedicine #StemCellResearch youtu.be/4nJfwirc3Nk

Congrats DOCTOR! Bowen Wang! For defending his PhD thesis on the development of a new way to grow and measure how tumor organoids respond to therapy using high speed live cell interferometry

Interested in mito transfer? Our lab and other leaders in the community came together to create a nomenclature review describing the growing field nature.com/articles/s4225…

Cellular Reprogramming and mitochondrial dysfunction are two hot topics in longevity research today which begs the question: How does cellular reprogramming impact mitochondrial health? lifespan.io/news/how-cellu… By: Josh Conway #longevity #aging #mitochondria #health

Press release on this article can be found @LifespanIO lifespan.io/news/how-cellu…

New lab paper out in @AgingCell. Congrats @AmyVanMDPhD and team @vmartirosianphd @propionylCoA Jon Wanagat’s lab @dgsomucla onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ac… Increased mitochondrial mutation heteroplasmy induces aging phenotypes in pluripotent stem cells and their differentiated progeny

New engineering paper with Eric Chiou’s lab: Optomagnetic Micromirror Arrays for Mapping Large Area Stiffness Distributions of Biomimetic Materials onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sm…

Intercellular nanotube-mediated mitochondrial transfer enhances T cell metabolic fitness and antitumor efficacy: Cell cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Wow! Won best short film 🎉🎉

Santa Monica lab outing to watch our admin assistant Amy Brown Carver’s directed and written short film Wow! On the big screen @ETHOSFilmAwards at the Laemmle Monica Film Center 🎞️ Wow! Can also be found on YouTube 🎥: m.youtube.com/watch?v=30cpky…

Teitell Lab kids at Santa Monica Pier 🎡

Congrats to Berney Peng for being awarded an @AmericanCancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship to study mitochondria transfer in tumor heterogeneity and acquired resistance to therapy 🎉🥳🥳🥳🥳

Very excited to have support from AFAR as I build my research program! afar.org/news/announcin…

Jasmine Gasilla presenting her work to evaluate amplification bias in mtDNA sequencing at the UCLA Mitochondria Symposium. Great job!

📢 Our center is recruiting multiple new faculty working in stem cell research! Apply today to join UCLA's highly collaborative multi-disciplinary research environment: recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF09745

"News and views" from @Nature describing our groundbreaking study out today in Nature 🎉 So proud of Dr. Akriti Prashar and the Jones lab team and our collaborators! @SickKidsNews Inner membrane turns inside out to exit mitochondrial organelles nature.com/articles/d4158…

Amy Vandiver (@AmyVanMDPhD) received her K08 award 🥳🎉 She'll be funded for her studies investigating mitochondria mutations that drive human tissue aging