A brief biography of Randy on the HHMI website.
News about Randy's 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine.
Photos from the Schekman Symposium held in August 2014.
The accumulation of misfolded proteins within the endoplasmic reticulum lumen activates a conserved proteostasis program known as the unfolded protein response. I am using novel biochemical and genetic approaches to investigate the role of extracellular vesicles in the intercellular control and propagation of proteostasis signaling.