Ryan Lach

Biography

Ryan graduated from Colorado College in 2016, majoring in neuroscience and molecular biology, before joining the Refaeli lab and Taiga Biotechnologies at the University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus where he worked as a research assistant until late 2018. He joined the Wilson lab in the winter of 2019 as a graduate student and is currently seeking to advance to doctoral candidacy in the fall.

Research

Ryan is interested in the biophysical mechanics that govern Wnt pathway signal transduction as well as how these signaling components contribute to cell fate, growth and proliferation decisions in development and adulthood. Currently, Ryan is working to quantify and control liquid-liquid phase behavior of the central signaling node of the canonical Wnt pathway, the β-catenin destruction complex, with the goal of better understanding its role in gating information pertinent to Wnt-related cellular outcomes.