Predicted to enable protein serine/threonine kinase activity. Predicted to be involved in several processes, including cilium assembly; positive regulation of hh target transcription factor activity; and positive regulation of smoothened signaling pathway. Predicted to act upstream of or within brain development and epithelial cilium movement involved in extracellular fluid movement. Predicted to be located in cytosol and nucleus. Predicted to be active in cytoplasm. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in primary ciliary dyskinesia. Orthologous to human STK36 (serine/threonine kinase 36). [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2022]