Asst Professor at UCLA. 🥼Metabolism, Isotope Tracing , Mass Spec ❤️ coffee and beach volleyball 🏝️🏐 New PI & mom ✨
Los Angeles, CA
Joined July 2008
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Tara TeSlaa retweeted
A UCLA-led team has received a four-year, $2.7 million grant from the @NIH to study how Zika virus damages the developing eye and to identify drug-based strategies that could protect babies’ vision.
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Grateful for this generous support from the NIH that will support my lab’s mission to understand nutrition at the cellular level!
Congrats to UCLA scientist Tara TeSlaa, recipient of an NIH Director’s New Innovator Award! 🎉
With up to $2.375M over 5 years, her lab will develop a new way to map how specific cell types use nutrients inside the body.
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Our MGH Dept of Molecular Biology is hiring. It’s an exceptional *basic* science dept with a longstanding track record for curiosity driven science, great colleagues / infrastructure and generous support.
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🔔 We are hiring! 🔔 We are looking for great colleagues doing curiosity driven research at the molecular level across broad areas of science. Please consider applying and spread the word!
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Our preprint is now published: In collab. w/ Ruma Banerjee we show how the B12 chaperone MMADHC spends its life in two cellular 'zip codes' dictated by the mitochondrial PMF (similar to PINK1). Co-led by @Sneha_Rath_, Zhu Li. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2537797…
Excited to share new work in collaboration w/ Ruma Banerjee’s group. Following mitochondrial depolarization, the vitamin B12 chaperone MMADHC is stabilized and boosts B12-dependent MTR activity in the cytosol. Regulation is reminiscent of PINK1, ATFS1.
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Competitive catabolism drives hyperglycemia and hyperinsulinemia in obesity dlvr.it/TVKrb3
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Also excited to share that I have recently launched my lab at the University of Iowa @IowaMed @IntMedatIowa! We are now recruiting postdoctoral fellows interested in using metabolomics and isotope tracing to unravel inter-organ metabolism. Please RT and apply if you’re interested
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Our lab is hiring a postdoc scholar. Please share!
The link has a description of what work we are currently doing and what an ideal fit for the lab will look like.
Broadly, we are working on how peroxisomal function and dietary lipids influence aging.
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This is an amazing department, and we have genuinely enjoyed every minute of being part of it!!
We're hiring! The Biochemistry Dept is looking for a professor at any level to join our creative community. Candidates in all biochemistry areas will be considered. Apply by Oct. 15: jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assistant…
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Thrilled to share our latest work, now published in @ScienceTM! We show that targeting mitochondrial energetics can simultaneously improve metabolic and vascular health.
Learn more: science.org/doi/10.1126/scit…
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Excited to share our new preprint identifying THAP12 as the first transcriptional regulator of mitochondrial ETC Complex I and expanding the diseases that may benefit from hypoxia therapy. Led by the amazing Brandon Desousa and coadvised by @KampmannLab biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
Complex I is the largest complex of the electron transport chain and the entry point for electrons that power ATP production. New work from Core Investigator @ishahjain and team identifies THAP12 as a dedicated transcription factor controlling how much Complex I a cell builds.
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I am pleased to share that our recent work, “Divergent AKT Signalling Mechanisms Regulate GLUT4 Translocation and Glucose Uptake in Skeletal Muscle and Adipose Tissue,” has been published in the Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle - Wiley Online Library
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UCLA’s Dr. Amy Vandiver received a $700K @BWFUND award to study the biological drivers of human aging. “Aging is the biggest risk factor for many of the diseases we treat. We now need to move this knowledge towards actionable interventions.”
Read more: ow.ly/pfzX50ZmbSL
Congratulations to the 2026 CAMS award recipients! These exceptional physician-scientists are advancing groundbreaking research & shaping the future of medicine. Learn more about this year’s awardees and their work:
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🧵 Check out our new paper in @NatureMetabolism: rdcu.be/fsLXJ! Hypoxia rescues a mitochondrial proteostasis disease, extending our hypoxia therapy program beyond primary Complex I disease. Stay tuned for more July preprints! And we are still hiring stellar postdocs!
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New technology makes light-activated protein labeling more precise and reliable. newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/u…
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Sharing our new publication by @ydkoophd in @jclinicalinvest revealing a non-autophagy role for ULK1 in the pathophysiology fatty liver disease and its progression to MASH and fibrosis jci.org/articles/view/191101
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Very happy to share our latest efforts to map the mammalian metabolome, in which we combine large-scale in vivo isotope tracing with biochemical AI to discover several structurally unprecedented and biologically fascinating metabolites: biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
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Excited to share my thesis work with @ManishButte, now published in @CellCellPress.
We show that xenobiotic metabolic pathways can be engineered into mammalian cells and use this to enhance tumor-infiltrating T cells.
Next up: development of this tool to study cell-type-specific glucose metabolism in a wide range of in vivo biological contexts. Stay tuned!
doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2026.…
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If you love the organelles that power life, come to @GordonConf Mito & Chloroplasts July 19-24, Maine. Please RT.
This conference (rich tradition!) will span the evolution, metabolism, and synthetic biology of these organelles.
Many oral/poster slots:
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📣 First preprint from the TeSlaa lab 📣 We investigated how methyl-rich nutrient, choline, is used in the body and how systemic one-carbon metabolism responds to dietary methyl-donor deficiency.
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