Publications

Publications (or reviewed manuscripts) (Undergraduate student co-author)

Kolotuev I, Williams A, Kizilyaprak C, Pellegrino S, and Lewellyn L. (2025) Complementary Volume Electron Microscopy-based approaches reveal ultrastructural changes in germline intercellular bridges. bioRxiv doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.18.638836.

 

Aoki ST, Lewellyn L, Justice S, Mordan-McCombs S, Tewari N, Cantu J, Seiser R, Lakhani A, Kowalski JR. (2024) Effectiveness of a network Open House model to recruit trainees to post-baccalaureate STEM programs. bioRxiv. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.01.08.574670.

 

Landwehr EH, Vivian LR, Papadeas GG, White EJ, Doster JM, Brenner NR, Selesky KM, Zilinski CA, Donovan AM, Farha SM, Lewellyn L, Beachboard DC, Kaschner S, and Stobart CC. (2025) Comparative syncytia formation dynamics of coronavirus MHV-A59    and pneumovirus hRSV A2 and incorporation into improved kinetic virus replication models. Journal General Virology. Feb;106(2). Doi:10.1099/jgv.0.002078.

 

Shaikh U, Sherlock K, Wilson J, Gilliland W, and Lewellyn L. (2024) Lineage-based scaling of    germline intercellular bridges during oogenesis. Development Aug 15;151(16):dev202676. doi: 10.1242/dev.202676. Epub 2024 Aug 27.

 

Lewellyn L and Wathen L. (2021) Short stop is a team player in intercellular transport. Current Biology. Aug 9;31(15):R959-R962. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.06.042. PMID: 34375601

 

Stark K, Crowe O, Lewellyn L. (2021) Precise levels of the Drosophila adaptor protein Dreadlocks maintain the size and stability of the germline ring canals. Journal of Cell Science. April 15;134(8):jcs254730. doi: 10.1242/jcs.254730.

 

Thestrup J, Tipold M, Kindred A, Stark K, Curry T, Lewellyn L. (2020) The Arp2/3 complex and the formin, Diaphanous, are both required to regulate the size of the germline ring canals in the developing egg chamber. Developmental Biology. 461(1):75-85.

 

Kline A, Curry T, Lewellyn L. (2018) The Misshapen Kinase regulates the size and stability of the Germline Ring Canals in the Drosophila Egg chamber. Developmental Biology. 440(2):99-112 doi: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2018.05.006

 

Lewellyn, L. (2018). What can the fruit fly tell us about the human eye? Genetics Society of America Peer-Reviewed Education Portal (GSA PREP); 2018. 002; doi:10.1534/gsaprep.2018.002

 

Cheerambathur DK, Prevo B, Hattersley N, Lewellyn L, Corbett KD, Oegema K, Desai A. (2017) Dephosphorylation of the Ndc80 Tail Stabilizes Kinetochore-Microtubule Attachments via the Ska Complex. Dev Cell. 41(4):424-437.e4. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2017.04.013.

 

Cetera M, Lewellyn L, and S Horne-Badovinac. (2016) Cultivation and Live Imaging of Drosophila Ovaries. Drosophila Methods and Protocols. Springer Press Ed. C. Dahmann.

 

Fernandes VM, McCormack K, Lewellyn L, and EM Verheyen. (2014) Integrins Regulate Apical Constriction via Microtubule Stabilization in the Drosophila Eye Disc Epithelium. Cell Reports 9:1-13.

 

Cetera M, Ramirez-San Juan GR, Oakes PW, Lewellyn L, Fairchild MJ, Tanentzapf G, Gardel ML, and S Horne-Badovinac. (2014) Epithelial Rotation promotes the global alignment of contractile actin bundles during Drosophila egg chamber elongation. Nature Communications DOI:10.1038/ncomms6511

 

Green RA, Mayers JR, Wang S, Lewellyn L, Desai A, Audhya A, and K Oegema. (2013) The midbody ring scaffolds the abscission machinery in the absence of midbody microtubules. J Cell Biol 203(3):505-520.

 

Lewellyn L, Cetera M, and S Horne-Badovinac. (2013) Misshapen decreases integrin levels to promote epithelial motility and planar polarity in Drosophila. J Cell Biol Mar 18; 200(6):721-9.

 

Lewellyn L, Carvalho, A, Desai A, Maddox, AS, and K Oegema.  (2011) The Chromosomal passenger complex and Centralspindlin independently contribute to contractile ring assembly. J Cell Biol Apr 4;193(1):155-69.

 

Lewellyn L, Dumont, J, Desai A, and K. Oegema.  (2010) Analyzing the effects of delaying aster separation on furrow formation during cytokinesis in the C. elegans embryo. Mol. Biol. Cell Jan;21(1):50-62.

 

Essex, A, Dammerman, A, Lewellyn, L, Oegema, K, and A Desai.  (2009) Systematic analysis in Caenorhabditis elegans reveals that the spindle checkpoint is composed of two largely independent branches.  Mol Biol Cell 20(4):1252-67.

 

Canman JC, Lewellyn L, Laband, K, Smerdon, S, Desai A, Bowerman, B and K Oegema.  (2008) Inhibition of Rac by the GAP activity of centralspindlin is essential for cytokinesis.  Science 322(5907): 1543-6.

 

Maddox A.S., Lewellyn L., Desai A., and K. Oegema. (2007) Anillin and the septins promote asymmetric ingression of the cytokinetic furrow.  Dev Cell. 12(5): 827-35.