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Tara TeSlaa

@tarateslaa.bsky.social
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Asst Prof @UCLA ☀️ Metabolism, mass spec, and stable isotope tracing ❤️ new PI and new mom ✨ teslaalab.com

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Alison Tebo @agtebo.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
We're excited that plasmid for HYlight2, our improved sensor for fructose 1,6-bisphosphate, are now available on @addgene.bsky.social Pre-print here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Tara TeSlaa @tarateslaa.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
📣 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. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry @uclacb.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Congrats to Ph.D. candidates Mai Abdusamad - Torres lab, Jadyn Malone - Petrovic lab, Katarina Cohen & Jack Scully - @schmittwitt.bsky.social & Teagan Dean - Schmitt lab & @tarateslaa.bsky.social on receiving UCLA Health JCCC 2025 Fellowship Awards! www.chemistry.ucla.edu/news/ucla-he...
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Katsu Funai @katsufunai.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
We have an Open Rank tenure-track faculty position in the Department of Nutrition & Integrative Physiology! Looking for a new colleague interested in making the University of Utah their new home to build a metabolic research program. Please share! @uofunuip.bsky.social
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Open Rank, Tenure Track Position – Metabolic Physiology - Salt Lake City, Utah job with University of Utah, Department of Nutrition & Integrative Physiology | 12844064
The Department of Nutrition and Integrated Physiology (NUIP) at the University of Utah seeks a Tenure Track faculty member at the rank of Assistant...
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Luis Cedeño-Rosario, PhD @luisci22.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
🎉 Thrilled to be one of the recipients of the 2025 Dr. Eddie Méndez Scholar Award from @fredhutch.bsky.social!!! Super excited to meet the other awardees and share some cool science! 🧪🔬 @rutterlab.bsky.social @uofubiochem.bsky.social @bwfund.bsky.social
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Danielle L. Schmitt 🔬 @schmittwitt.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
All six Schmitt Lab 2nd years ave advanced to candidacy!! I’m very proud of my students for their hard work and dedication. Shout out to co-mentors @tarateslaa.bsky.social & @shahlab.bsky.social for making this happen!!
Polaroid pictures of all six Schmitt lab 2nd years in front of a sign saying “PhD candidate”.
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Schmitt Lab @ UCLA @schmittlab-ucla.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
🎉 Congrats Teagan, who advanced to candidacy today! Teagan is co-mentored by Danielle & @tarateslaa.bsky.social. Teagan did a great job! 🥳
Teagan holding a wrench symbolizing the tool she is making.
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Kevin Hall @kevinh-phd.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Specifically, I experienced censorship in the reporting of our research because of agency concerns that it did not appear to fully support preconceived narratives of my agency’s leadership about ultra-processed food addiction.
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Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
The integrated stress response (ISR): what happens to my body everytime I look at the New York Times
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Science Magazine @science.org · 07/03/2025
Breaking news: Thousands of researchers and their supporters, including recently fired federal workers, have gathered across the U.S. in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration. scim.ag/41zlPv4
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Thousands gather across U.S. in Stand Up for Science events
Scientists rally across the country in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration
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Tara TeSlaa @tarateslaa.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
TeSlaa lab at Stand Up for Science Los Angeles
TeSlaa lab with signs
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 03/03/2025
FOUR DAYS until we STAND UP FOR SCIENCE! ⬇️☀️📣 WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7th?
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Phillip White @phillipjwhitephd.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Abstracts for #METPHYS2025 are due this Friday! There are multiple short talks available! FEB28 is also the deadline for the Vanderbilt Vibrant program This initiative will provide several awards of $2000 to help new investigators attend www.sablesys.com/metphys2025-...
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Harvard Molecular Metabolism @met-hsph.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Exciting findings from Bo Yuan, PhD of the @tonyhui.bsky.social Lab: a whole-body quantitative flux model of energy metabolism was built, revealing surprising features of energy metabolism in both normal physiology and obesity. Great collaboration with the Hotamışlıgil Lab!
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An organism-level quantitative flux model of energy metabolism in mice
Mammalian tissues feed on nutrients in the blood circulation. At the organism level, mammalian energy metabolism is comprised of the oxidation, storag…
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
ATTENTION If you are on a study section that was scheduled to meet, please post or DM me with information regarding: 1. The name of the study section 2. The scheduled date 3. Whether the meeting actually occurred THANK YOU
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a man wearing a top hat and a purple jacket is asking for more .
ALT: a man wearing a top hat and a purple jacket is asking for more .
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 12/02/2025
Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
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Lydia Finley @lydiafinley.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Massive work from Jess Spinelli's lab at UMASS demonstrating a SECOND electron carrier in the mammalian ETC: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Rhodoquinone carries electrons in the mammalian electron transport chain
Valeros et al. identify rhodoquinone (RQ), an electron carrier present in mammalian mitochondria, that can deliver electrons to fumarate instead of O2 as the terminal electron acceptor. The authors de...
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Peter Mullen @petemullen.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Registration and abstract submissions are open for the Third Annual SoCal Metabolism Symposium at USC. Go to gero.usc.edu/event/third-... The abstract and early bird price deadlines are Feb 28th
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Schmitt Lab @ UCLA @schmittlab-ucla.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
🥳First Paper!🔬 We introduce Malibu, a cpEGFP-based biosensor for malonyl-CoA 🌊🌅. We also demonstrate utility of Malibu in both E. coli and HeLa cells. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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A Genetically Encoded Fluorescent Biosensor for Intracellular Measurement of Malonyl-CoA
Malonyl-CoA is the essential building block of fatty acids and regulates cell function through protein malonylation and allosteric regulation of signaling networks. Accordingly, the production and use...
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Schmitt Lab @ UCLA @schmittlab-ucla.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
@tarateslaa.bsky.social x Schmitt Lab at Cell Bio
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Camilla Scheele @camillascheele.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Are you my new colleague? @metabolcenter.bsky.social is recruiting group leaders in the field of metabolism that want to be part of an amazingly collaborative center with a joint ambition of improving cardiometabolic health. Apply until end of January 2025. candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
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Three Group Leaders (Associate Professor or Professor) in Cardiometabolic Health and Disease
Extended application deadline 31 January 2025   Three Group Leaders (Associate Professor or Professor) in Cardiometabolic Health and Disease Novo Nordisk F
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Michael Skinnider @skinnider.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Thrilled to share our approach for language model-guided discovery of unknown mammalian metabolites: DeepMet. We’ve now used this approach to discover ~50 new human and mouse metabolites! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Language model-guided anticipation and discovery of unknown metabolites
Despite decades of study, large parts of the mammalian metabolome remain unexplored. Mass spectrometry-based metabolomics routinely detects thousands of small molecule-associated peaks within human ti...
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Tara TeSlaa @tarateslaa.bsky.social · 30/09/2024
Happy to have contributed to this work from @schmittlab-ucla.bsky.social @schmittwitt.bsky.social who developed a new malonyl-CoA fluorescent biosensor!
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Danielle L. Schmitt 🔬 @schmittwitt.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
@tarateslaa.bsky.social & I celebrated our success today. We are both so excited to have our work supported by CZI. I'm so excited for our collaboration!
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Danielle L. Schmitt 🔬 @schmittwitt.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
I am absolutely delighted that @tarateslaa.bsky.social & I have been supported by CZI to investigate the role of the universal methyl-donor s-adenosylmethionine across scales, from the sub-cell to whole animal! chanzuckerberg.com/science/prog...
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Measuring Metabolism Across Scales
CZI supports 18 research projects to measure metabolism across organelles and cells.
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