Assistant Professor @UCBerkeley. Studying organelle biology and communication in metabolism. Previously @MET_HSPH @Harvard

Joined November 2017
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Excited to share our new paper: 'LASER couples damage sensing to ESCRT assembly for lysosome repair.' Congrats to dream team @clairegoul and @aakritijain24 for uncovering a new lysosome repair pathway and its connection to neurodegeneration. bit.ly/49FCPoq
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Ana Paula Arruda retweeted
Congratulations to Dr. Renata Goncalves @RenataG81952725 @gshlab for being recognized by Boston Area Nutrition Obesity Research Center Outstanding Manuscript Award @BostonAreaNORC for her studies on discovering a CoQ metabolism defect leading to reverse electron transport and site-specific ROS production in mitochondria as a mechanism disrupting hepatic metabolism 🧿👏 bostonareanorc.org/awards/ou…

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Please re-post! Time is almost up to register for the 2026 FASEB Lipid Droplet Meeting. Abstracts are due May 31, 2026. See link below, and join us for an amazing SRC lipid meeting July 26-30! #LipidSRC events.faseb.org/event/Lipid…
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Excited to share a new preprint from our lab: We identify calcium influx at ER-plasma membrane contact sites as a key mechanism regulating brown adipocyte thermogenesis and metabolic health. biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
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Professors @OlzmannLab and @apsarruda and colleagues have identified a previously unrecognized membrane-shaping protein that regulates whether fat is secreted or stored in liver cells. mbn.berkeley.edu/news/berkel…

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Ana Paula Arruda retweeted
Wonderful to celebrate our recent paper with these absolute super stars!! Love this team! 🤗 🥹
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Happy to share this collaborative work published in @Nature today: “CLCC1 promotes hepatic neutral lipid flux and nuclear pore complex assembly” by @OlzmannLab @apsarruda , led by co–first authors @alymathiowetz and @EmilyMeymand nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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“CLCC1 promotes hepatic neutral lipid flux and nuclear pore complex assembly.”@Nature🤩
1/ Thrilled to share our new paper in @Nature: “CLCC1 promotes hepatic neutral lipid flux and nuclear pore complex assembly.” From our lab together with @apsarruda, led by co–first authors @alymathiowetz and @EmilyMeymand. 🥳 nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Happy to share our perspective on the recently published paper by the Burkewitz Lab. @apsarruda @BerkeleyMetBio doi.org/10.1038/s41556-025-0…

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Our department has a new name: Department of Metabolic Biology & Nutrition😍🤩 mbn.berkeley.edu/news/nst-re…
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Faculty position: 2x weeks left to apply! If you study metabolism & metabolic disease (broadly defined), we encourage you to apply! The dept is excited about biological and molecular mechanisms, AI / computation, physiology, & therapeutics / translation. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04…

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Tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Metabolic Biology / Human Metabolic Disease @UCBerkeley! Fantastic opportunity to join an interdisciplinary department with strengths in metabolism, nutrition & human health. Please help spread the word! jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/…
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Our soon to be renamed Dept. of Metabolic Biology and Nutrition is having a faculty search in the broad area of Metabolic Disease. Apply to join @apsarruda, @OlzmannLab, @gparlakgul, @Ale_Ferrari1 at the best metabolism department in the world! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04…

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Tenure-track Assistant Professor position at UC Berkeley. 🤩🤩
Tenure-track assistant professor position @UCBerkeley broadly focused on human metabolic diseases. Please help us spread the word! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04…
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Tenure-track assistant professor position @UCBerkeley broadly focused on human metabolic diseases. Please help us spread the word! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04…

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Assistant Professor faculty position at @UCBerkeley focusing on metabolic disease. 🤩 aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04…

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Excited to share I have accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position at UC Berkeley, in the department of Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology. The Parlakgul Lab will open in January 2026!🚀 @BerkeleyMetBio @UCBerkeley
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Congratulations to Gunes Parlakgul @gparlakgul and Alessandra Ferrari, the newest Faculty members of NST department at @ UC Berkeley!!
Rausser College is excited to welcome six new faculty members this year. Their research and expertise span a variety of topics, including environmental economics, metabolic biology, land management, and plant biology. Read more about each faculty member: linkedin.com/pulse/rausser-c…
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