We study the mechanisms mediating formation and maintenance of cell polarity. The main focus of the lab are several aspects of permanent and transient cell polarization that include cell division, cell migration and invasion as well as epithelial tissue morphogenesis. This means that our research is very interdisciplinary. We use experimental approaches that vary between structural and molecular biology, cell biology, biochemistry, electron and fluorescent microscopy and genetics. My lab's motto is to learn and use any available techniques or approaches that are needed to solve biological riddle. As the result, we also use several different experimental model systems: 2D and 3D cell culture as well as mice and zebrafish animal models.
For post-doc and graduate student positions contact the lab at rytis.prekeris@ucdenver.edu!
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UPCOMING EVENTS
ASCB Meeting
December, 2019
LAB NEWS!
Congratulations to Julia Ceglowski with winning poster award at Cancer Biology Program Retreat (even is Julia is member of Molecular Biology Grad Program)!
Congratulations to Emily Duncan for receiving Bolie Scholar Award as wells as Julia Ceglowski and Cayla Jewett for getting NIH T32 pre-doctoral Awards
Congratulations to Emily Duncan and Cayla Jewett for receiving ASCB Travel Awards as well as being selected to give talks!
Congratulations to Cayla Jewett for winning "Best Presentation" Award at FASEB Cilia Meeting. She beat not just other graduate students but post-docs as well!
Congratulations to Eric Peterman with publications of first actor paper "The post-abscission midbody is an intracellular signaling organelle that regulates cell proliferation" at Nature Communications!
