Robert Garcia Leija

I am a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley. I am a part of the George Brooks Exercise Physiology lab. My discipline is primarily focused on skeletal muscle in which I study both isolated mitochondria and whole body bioenergetics. I previously studied environmental physiology specifically related to exercise in the heat. My current research is to interrogate how aging affects mitochondrial lactate oxidation, fragmentation, and redox status.