Dr. Taylor completed PhD training with Dr. William W. Winder at Brigham Young University in 2005 investigating energy signaling in skeletal muscle. He then completed two postdoctoral fellowships. The first was with Dr. Laurie Goodyear at the Joslin Diabetes Center and Harvard Medical School, deciphering signaling mechanisms mediating contraction-stimulated glucose uptake in skeletal muscle. The second was with Dr. Jared Rutter at the University of Utah, where he co-led the discovery of the Mitochondrial Pyruvate Carrier (MPC), as reported in the journal Science. Dr. Taylor joined the faculty at the University of Iowa in 2012. Dr. Taylor employs physiologic, genetic, molecular, and chemical methods to illuminate metabolic networks and the mechanisms by which they regulate cellular function.