The Biology of Cilia and Flagella Conference

Rebecca Burdine, a professor in the department of Molecular Biology, joined the faculty at Princeton in 2003. Her lab focuses on understanding the mechanisms that control left-right patterning and asymmetric organ morphogenesis. Her lab team also explores other developmental processes involving cilia, including kidney structure and skeletal formation.
 
Burdine was named the 44th Mallinckrodt Scholar for the Edward Mallinckrodt Jr. Foundation and received a Scientist Development Career Award from the American Heart Association in 2003. She is on the Editorial board for Cell Reports, and regularly serves on grant review panels for the NIH and NSF. 

Karl Lechtreck is Associate Professor in the Cellular Biology department at the University of Georgia. Using Chlamydomonas as a unicellular model, he analyzes cilia assembly, structure and function using biochemical analyses of isolated cilia and single particle imaging of protein transport in cilia. His current work focuses on PKD2, Arl13b and the BBSome.

Peter Jackson, PhD, is a professor in the Baxter Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Jackson returned to Stanford in 2013 after eight years as a staff scientist and director at Genentech Inc. in S. San Francisco. At Genentech, he helped define and implement the development of therapeutics for cancer pathways, including cell cycle checkpoints, stress pathways, and tumor metabolism. Since 2005, his lab has focused on signaling through the primary cilium, using proteomic approaches to define regulatory networks and new disease genes. More broadly, the lab has connected many proteins defective in human diseases and cancer to new complexes and pathways, with a view to discovering molecular signatures for diagnostics and therapeutic development. His research has earned him numerous visiting lectureships and honors, including awards from the Baxter Foundation, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, American Cancer Society, and Pluto Society; and being a Stanford Hume Faculty Scholar and a Kirsch Scholar; and elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (in 2008).