Current Lab Members
Jin Dai
Graduate Student
Arl13b in Chlamydomonas: Mode of Action
Karl F. Lechtreck Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
Partner highbrow in a dialect of mobile biology
(1991 University of Cologne)
Contact: Cellular Biology, University of Georgia,635C Biological Science Building,1000 Cedar Street, Athens, GA 30602
Phone 706-542 0167 (office), 706-542 2075 (lab), FAX 706-542-4271; faculty page.
Ilaria Mengoni Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Cloning of IFT54 and IFT81 constructs
(2014 University of Bologna)
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?
Dipna Venkatachalam
Graduate Student
Ciliary targeting of CAH6
Kewei Yu
Graduate Student
Cilia transport of acylated proteins
Undergraduate researchers and assistants
Shannon Freeland
Undergraduate Assistant
Keeps the lab going - for three years. Fantastic!
Alec Feather
Undergraduate Researcher
Analysis of PKD2 transport
Vanessa Lewis
Undergraduate Researcher
Cloning of FAP173-GFP
Denae Kappers
Undergraduate Researcher
Molecular basis of ODA transport
Rohan Kumar Nuthakki
Undergraduate Researcher
Cloning of GFP-LF2 kinase
Maiah A. Wiley
Undergraduate Researcher
Inducible inhibition of IFT
Lab alumni - They never really go.
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)
John V. Dzimianski (Master's program in the Department of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, UGA)
(Research Technician II)
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)