Jeremy was a postdoctoral fellow with Bill Skarnes, with whom he worked on gene editing technology and mammalian development. Work from the Reiter laboratory has contributed to the understanding of primary cilia as critical mediators of intercellular signals during development. Their work also has shown that cancer cells can be ciliated and addicted to their cilia for proliferative signals. More recently, the Reiter laboratory has explored the composition and function of the transition zone, a region between the basal body and cilium. The transition zone promotes ciliogenesis and controls ciliary composition in a tissue-specific manner. The Reiter laboratory has shown that problems in ciliary composition disrupt ciliary signaling and cause human ciliopathies, including Meckel and Joubert syndromes. PHOTO COURTESY OF MICHAEL WINOKUR