PUBLICATIONS

​Recent work:

Key: *Corresponding author(s)      +Invited commentary, not peer reviewed

 

Velle KB*, Ramaswamy M, Hokmabad BV, Martín-Pérez T, Tapia Carrasco T, Callahan WS, Kim HS, Datta SS, Edwards M, & Fritz-Laylin LK* (2025) Naegleria amoebae seek confinement and crawl persistently through narrow spaces. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology, DOI: 10.1101/2025.11.30.691445 (preprint)

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Guest SL, Velle KB, Jacques SM, Park Y, Man J, Titus MA, and Fritz-Laylin, LK* (2025). Myosin 2 drives actin contractility in fast-crawling species outside of the amorphean lineage. Current Biology. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.10.022

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Prostak S, Velle KB, and Fritz-Laylin LK* (2025). Frog-killing chytrid fungus deploys different strategies to regulate intracellular pressure in developmental states that have or lack a cell wall. Current Biology. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.10.013 

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Velle KB* & Onishi M* (2025). Please inhibit responsibly: Natural and synthetic actin toxins as useful tools in cell biology. Molecular Biology of the Cell. DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e25-05-0264 

 

Kennard AS, Velle KB, Ranjan R, Schulz, D, and Fritz-Laylin, LK* (2025). Tubulin sequence divergence is associated with the use of distinct microtubule regulators, Current Biology. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.11.022
 

Velle KB, Swafford AJM, Garner E, and Fritz-Laylin LK* (2024). Actin network evolution as a key driver of eukaryotic diversification, Journal of Cell Science. DOI: 10.1242/jcs.261660

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✝Velle KB* (2024). mSphere of Influence: The power of observational research, mSphere. DOI: 10.1128/msphere.00176-24

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Postdoc work:

✝Velle KB* and Fritz-Laylin LK (2023). Evolutionary cell biology: New roles for Arp2/3 complex evolution in eukaryotic diversification, Current Biology. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.11.016

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​Velle KB, Garner RM, Beckford TK, Weeda M, Liu C, Kennard AS, Edwards M, and Fritz-Laylin LK (2023). A conserved pressure-driven mechanism for regulating cytosolic osmolarity, Current Biology. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.06.061

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Velle KB, Kennard AS, Trupinić M, Ivec A, Swafford AJM, Nolton E, Rice LM, Tolić IM, Fritz-Laylin LK*, and Wadsworth P* (2022). Naegleria’s mitotic spindles are built from unique tubulins and highlight core spindle features, Current Biology. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.01.034 

• This work was featured in a Current Biology Dispatch (DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.01.079)

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Herman EK, Greninger A, van der Giezen M, Ginger ML, Ramirez-Macias I, Miller HC, Morgan MJ, Tsaousis AD, Velle K, Vargová R, Záhonová K, Najle SR, MacIntyre G, Muller N, Wittwer M, Zysset-Burri DC, Eliáš M, Slamovits CH, Weirauch MT, Fritz-Laylin L, Marciano-Cabral F, Puzon GJ, Walsh T, Chiu C, and Dacks JB* (2021). Genomics and transcriptomics yields a system-level view of the biology of the pathogen Naegleria fowleri, BMC Biology. DOI: 10.1186/s12915-021-01078-1 

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Velle KB*, Fermino do Rosário C, Wadsworth P, and Fritz-Laylin LK* (2021). A OneStep solution for fixing and staining cells for correlative live and fixed microscopy, Current Protocols in Cell Biology. DOI: 10.1002/cpz1.308 

 

+Velle KB* and Fritz-Laylin LK* (2021). Evolutionary Cell Biology: Closest unicellular relatives of animals crawl when squeezed, Current Biology. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.02.012 

 

Velle KB and Fritz-Laylin LK* (2020). Conserved actin machinery drives microtubule-independent motility and phagocytosis in Naegleria, Journal of Cell Biology. DOI: 10.1083/jcb.202007158 

• This work was highlighted in preLights (DOI: 10.1242/prelights.20789)

• This work was featured in JCB as a spotlight (DOI: 10.1083/jcb.202009031)

• This work was recommended twice by Faculty Opinions as “Good for teaching” (DOI: 10.3410/f.738714331.793582204 & 10.3410/f.738714331.793587412)

 

Lord SJ, Velle KB, Mullins RD, and Fritz-Laylin LK* (2020). SuperPlots: Communicating reproducibility and variability in cell biology, Journal of Cell Biology. DOI: 10.1083/jcb.202001064 

• This work is in the JCB Special Collection: Editors’ picks 2021

 

Velle KB and Fritz-Laylin LK* (2019). The diversity and evolution of actin-dependent phenotypes, Current Opinion in Genetics and Development. DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2019.07.016 

 

Kakley MR, Velle KB, and Fritz-Laylin LK* (2018). Relative Quantitation of Polymerized Actin in Suspension Cells by Flow Cytometry, Bio-Protocol. DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.3094 

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Graduate work:

Velle KB and Campellone KG* (2018). Enteropathogenic E. coli relies on collaboration between the formin mDia1 and the Arp2/3 complex for actin pedestal biogenesis and maintenance, PLOS Pathogens. DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1007485 

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Velle KB and Campellone KG* (2017).  Extracellular Motility and Cell-to-Cell Transmission of Enterohemorrhagic E. coli is Driven by EspFU-mediated Actin Assembly, PLOS Pathogens. DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1006501 

 

Borinskaya S, Velle KB, Campellone KG, Talman A, Agaisse H, Wu Y, Loew L, and Mayer B* (2015).  Integration of Linear and Dendritic Actin Nucleation in Nck-Induced Actin Comets. Molecular Biology of the Cell. DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E14-11-1555 

Bomar L, Stephens W, Nelson M, Velle K, Guillemin K and Graf J* (2013).  Draft Genome Sequence of Aeromonas veronii Hm21, a Symbiotic Isolate from the Medicinal Leech Digestive Tract. Genome Announcements. DOI: 10.1128/genomeA.00800-13