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Associate Professor, Biological Sciences wriekhof2@unl.edu 402-472-8895 E141 Beadle Center
Research Strengths
Applied research/biotechnology, Bioinformatics, Biomedical research, Lipids/Membrane biology, Molecular Signaling, Omics, Plant biochemistry, Redox biology

Research in my lab focuses on using microbial eukaryotic model organisms as systems to study various aspects of lipid metabolism, including membrane lipid and fatty acid trafficking between organelles, the regulation of membrane lipid and triglyceride synthesis, and the regulation of lipid droplet assembly and morphology.