Oscar Hernandez Murillo

Oscar hails from Guayaquil, a city on the coast of Ecuador. He pursued his undergraduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where he worked on ways to engineer substrate-specific and potentiated variants of the yeast disaggregase Hsp104 in the lab of James Shorter. In the Haigis Lab, Oscar is interested in understanding how different cellular states lead to metabolic reprogramming as to coordinate lipid homeostasis and how cellular pathologies arise when such processes go awry.

When pipetting, he struggles with the fact that yeast is bae but mammalian cells are okay.
Has an admiration for: Philly squirrels as one of them once fought him over a blueberry muffin.