News

May 27, 2021
We are excited that MCGD track graduate student Ceara McAtee has joined the lab - welcome Ceara!  
May 13, 2021
Check out our latest work (previously on bioRxiv), now published in Current Biology. We show that Rab34 mediates ciliary membrane formation to control cilium assembly in a...
April 15, 2021
Congrats to Tracy on her decision to join the Tetrad Ph.D. program at UCSF!
December 21, 2020
We are looking to hire a post-graduate researcher to join us in the coming months.  This position is perfect for graduating or recently graduated college students looking to...
October 30, 2020
Check out our new preprint on the role of Rab34 GTPase in primary cilium assembly!  We find that Rab34 mediates ciliary membrane formation selectively in the intracellular...
August 24, 2020
The lab has been an awarded a 5-year R35 Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award from NIGMS. We are excited to continue our studies on cilium assembly and disassembly and...
August 3, 2020
Peiwei Liu has joined the lab.  He did excellent work in the Lechtreck lab studying cilia in Chlamydomonas, including investigating the role of the BBSome in ciliary...