Aoife T. Heaslip

University of Connecticut — United States

Immunology and Microbiology · Life Sciences

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Research Topics

Toxoplasma gondii Research Studies(28), Cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research(14), Herpesvirus Infections and Treatments(8), Autophagy in Disease and Therapy(6), Parasitic Infections and Diagnostics(4)

Publications34 total

An apicoplast-localized GTPase is essential for <i>Toxoplasma gondii</i> survival
mSphere·2025Open Access
Cell contractility: Myosin-II-mediated contraction of fast-crawling amoebae
Current Biology·2025
Molecular features of Myosin F adapted for driving actin flows in <i>Toxoplasma gondii</i>
2025Open Access
An apicoplast localized GTPase is essential for <i>Toxoplasma gondii</i> survival
2025Open Access
Bending stiffness of Toxoplasma gondii actin filaments
Journal of Biological Chemistry·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Myosin F controls actin organization and dynamics in <i>Toxoplasma gondii</i>
Molecular Biology of the Cell·2024· 9 citedOpen Access
Toxoplasma gondii actin filaments are tuned for rapid disassembly and turnover
Nature Communications·2024· 13 citedOpen Access
F-actin and myosin F control apicoplast elongation dynamics which drive apicoplast-centrosome association in <i>Toxoplasma gondii</i>
mBio·2023· 11 citedOpen Access
<i>Toxoplasma gondii</i> actin filaments are tuned for rapid disassembly and turnover
2023· 1 citedOpen Access
F-actin and Myosin F control apicoplast elongation dynamics which drive apicoplast-centrosome association in <i>Toxoplasma gondii</i>
2023Open Access
PEERing forward in parasitology
Trends in Parasitology·2023
F-actin and Myosin F control apicoplast elongation dynamics which drive apicoplast-centrosome association in <i>Toxoplasma gondii</i>
2023· 2 citedOpen Access
Dense granule biogenesis, secretion, and function in <i>Toxoplasma gondii</i>
Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology·2022· 53 citedOpen Access
Actin and an unconventional myosin motor, TgMyoF, control the organization and dynamics of the endomembrane network in Toxoplasma gondii
PLoS Pathogens·2021· 32 citedOpen Access
Toxoplasma gondii Hsp20 is a stripe-arranged chaperone-like protein associated with the outer leaflet of the inner membrane complex
UNC Libraries·2020· 2 citedOpen Access
Actin and an unconventional myosin motor, TgMyoF control the organization and dynamics of the endomembrane network in <i>Toxoplasma gondii</i>
2020Open Access
Differential requirements for cyclase-associated protein (CAP) in actin-dependent processes of Toxoplasma gondii
eLife·2019· 82 citedOpen Access
Author response: Differential requirements for cyclase-associated protein (CAP) in actin-dependent processes of Toxoplasma gondii
2019· 1 citedOpen Access
Differential requirements of cyclase associated protein (CAP) for actin turnover during the lytic cycle of <i>Toxoplasma gondii</i>
2019· 6 citedOpen Access
Toxoplasma gondii F-actin forms an extensive filamentous network required for material exchange and parasite maturation
eLife·2017· 125 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

David M. Warshaw(6), Gary E. Ward(6), Shane R. Nelson(5), Ke Hu(5), Romain Carmeille(5), Thomas E. Sladewski(5), Parvathi M. Devarakonda(4), Jamie Whitelaw(3), María Fernanda Latorre Barragán(3), Simon Gras(3), Jacqueline M. Leung(3), Markus Meissner(3), Alex Hunt(3), Matthew R. G. Russell(3), Jeanette Wagener(3), Robyn S. Kent(3), Christopher J. Peddie(3), Lucy Collinson(3), Moritz Treeck(3), Jessica M. Armstrong(3)