Aoife Heaslip @atheaslip.bsky.social · 20/12/2024In January two new students joined our group – Josh Berthiaume is a Ph.D student and Lee Dollar is a M.S student. They’ve already made great contributions and I’m excited to see where their projects go in 2025. 100
Aoife Heaslip @atheaslip.bsky.social · 20/12/2024In March, Tom’s paper on Toxoplasma actin dynamics was published in Nature Communications. This was a great collaboration between the Heaslip Lab and the Kollman Lab at UofWashington www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comToxoplasma gondii actin filaments are tuned for rapid disassembly and turnover - Nature CommunicationsActin is critical to the survival of the parasite Toxoplasma gondii. In this study, Hvorecny and Sladewski et al. show that T. gondii actin forms intrinsically dynamic filaments in vitro due to differ... 100
Aoife Heaslip @atheaslip.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Later that week, Jacob’s paper was accepted to MBoC – Jacob show that a novel myosin motor is involved in actin organization in Toxoplasma www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/...molbiolcell.orgMyosin F controls actin organization and dynamics in Toxoplasma gondii | Molecular Biology of the CellIntracellular cargo transport is a ubiquitous cellular process in all eukaryotes. In many cell types, membrane bound cargo is associated with molecular motors which transport cargo along microtubule a... 100
