Current Lab Members
Jin Dai
Graduate Student
Arl13b in Chlamydomonas: Mode of Action
Poulomi Das
Graduate Student
Chlamydomonas PKD2
(2019 MSC. National Institute of Science Education and Research, Jatani, Odisha, India)
Karl F. Lechtreck Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
Partner highbrow in a dialect of mobile biology
(1991 University of Cologne)
Peiwei Liu Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Cilia transport and function of PKD2 in Chlamydomonas
(2014 Beijing Normal University)
Jenna L. Wingfield
Graduate Student
Is IFT54 involved in tubulin transport?
Kewei Yu
Graduate Student
Cilia transport of acylated proteins
Gui Zhang
Research Professional
Undergraduate researchers and assistants
Betlehem T. Mekonnen
Undergraduate researcher
TurboID of IFT54
Rohan Kumar Nuthakki
Undergraduate Researcher
Cloning of GFP-LF2 kinase
Lab alumni - They never really go.
Ilaria Mengoni Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate (2015-2019)
Dipna Venkatachalam
Graduate MS Student (2017 -2019)
Julie M. Craft PhD (postdoc in the lab of Daniel A. Doherty, MD, PhD at Seattle Children's Hostpital)
(Graduate student, 2011-2015)
J. Aaron Harris
(Graduate student 2012-2018)
Batare Okivie (Drexel University)
(Research Technician II)
Maiah A. Wiley
(Undergraduate Researcher)
Emilia Kayris
(Undergraduate Assistant)
Vanessa Lewis
(Undergraduate Researcher)
Shannon Freeland (Mercer University School of Medicine)
Gold Workstudy student and lab aid (2015 - 2019)
John V. Dzimianski (Master's program in the Department of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, UGA)
(Research Technician II)
Alec Feather
Undergraduate Researcher/Assistant Researcher
Denae Kappers
Undergraduate Researcher
Kiersten B. Hilderhoff
(Undergraduate Researcher)
Gehrig Broxton
(Undergraduate Researcher)
Erika Lattimore
(Undergraduate Researcher)
Anneliese Blevins
(UGA Young Dawgs Program Intern)
Anna Hollis
(Summer Intern UGA Young Dawgs Program)
Sebastian Hyman (Mercer University School of Medicine)
(Research Technician II)
Kathryne N. Wren
(Research Technician II 2011-2013)