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)
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?
Kewei Yu
Graduate Student
Cilia transport of acylated proteins
Undergraduate researchers and assistants
Emilia Kayris
Undergraduate Assistant
Vanessa Lewis
Undergraduate Researcher
Cloning of FAP173-GFP
Betlehem T. Mekonnen
Undergraduate researcher
TurboID of IFT54
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.
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)
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)