faculty

Katrina Velle '12, PhD she/her

Assistant Professor

508-999-8206

508-999-8196

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Violette Research 205B

2018

University of Connecticut

PhD

2012

University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

A laboratory course emphasizing current approaches to studying cellular function and genetic inheritance.

A laboratory course emphasizing current approaches to studying cellular function and genetic inheritance.

$ 249,000 awarded by NIH - National Institutes of Health for Defining Cytoskeletal Mechanisms Driving Cell Motility in Naegleria
$ 100,450 awarded by Amazing Avens Quest For Amoeba Awareness for Defining the Basic Biology Underlying Disease-Causing Traits in Naegleria

Katrina B Velle, Rikki M Garner, Tatihana K Beckford, Makaela Weeda, Chunzi Liu, Andrew S Kennard, Marc Edwards, and Lillian K Fritz-Laylin (2023).
A conserved pressure-driven mechanism for regulating cytosolic osmolarity
Current Biology, 33, 3325-3337.e5.
Katrina B Velle, Andrew S Kennard, Monika Trupinić, Arian Ivec, Andrew J M Swafford, Emily Nolton, Luke M Rice, Iva M Tolić , Lillian K Fritz-Laylin, and Patricia Wadsworth (2022).
Naegleria's mitotic spindles are built from unique tubulins and highlight core spindle features
Current Biology, 32, 1247-1261.e6.
Katrina B Velle and Lillian K Fritz-Laylin (2020).
Conserved actin machinery drives microtubule-independent motility and phagocytosis in Naegleria
Journal of Cell Biology, 219