Rate My Professor Mirian Krystel

Mirian Krystel De Siqueira is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Genetics at Stanford University, where she works in the Barna Lab. She earned her Ph.D. in Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Physiology from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research centers on adipocyte biology, with a focus on the translation machinery in adipose progenitors and its role in metabolism and obesity. A key publication is the 2024 paper titled PPARgamma-dependent remodeling of translational machinery in adipose progenitors is impaired in obesity, published in Cell Reports, which examines how PPARgamma agonists influence ribosomal factors and translational selectivity in adipose tissue under obese conditions. Additional work includes a 2025 protocol for polysome profiling in primary differentiating murine adipocytes, published in STAR Protocols, and contributions to studies on adipose-tissue plasticity and interorgan metabolic signaling.