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Danielle L. Schmitt is an Assistant Professor in the Biochemistry, Molecular Structural Biology Graduate Program at UCLA. Her research focuses on understanding the organization of essential cellular processes such as metabolism and signaling and how these processes coordinate cell function and fate. The Schmitt Lab develops genetically encoded fluorescent protein-based biosensors to study cellular activity in single cells in real time with high spatial and temporal resolution using live cell fluorescence microscopy. The lab utilizes these biosensors to investigate kinase signaling networks that regulate metabolic processes and to interrogate the sub-cellular dynamics of metabolites. Schmitt is particularly interested in understanding how metabolism is spatiotemporally regulated in cells and the origins of metabolic diseases, including cancer and inborn errors of metabolism.
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