Postdoc Profile: Munkhtuya Tumurkhuu

Mentor
Neufer Darrell

Education
PhD, The University of Tokyo

Research Summary
My research focuses on bioenergitics, which is a study of the free energy forces and conversions responsible for establishing and maintaining energy homeostatasis in all cells. Mitochondria are central to this process, converting the food ingested into a useable form of energy, ATP. The long-term goal of the our research work is to decifer the mechanisms controlling mitochondrial efficiency and function under normal and metabolically compromised or stressed states, and to determine how altered mitochondrial function in turn contributes to, or counterbalances against, the etiology and/or pathology of metabolic diseases.