About Hanaa Hariri, PhD

I started my lab in 2021. I have a PhD in biophysics from FSU and did my postdoctoral training at UTSW. My lab investigates new and unexplored mechanism of metabolic regulation at inter-organelle contact sites. A key challenge in metabolism research today is to understand how metabolic pathways are spatially organized within the three-dimensional cellular space, and how this organization contributes to context-specific metabolic functions. Recent studies revealed new families of proteins called “tethers” that physically bridge cellular organelles together. These tethers also play important roles in regulating cellular metabolic pathways. Our work is focused on this new area in cell biology to try to dissect mechanisms by which inter-organelle tethers influence cellular metabolism.