Rebecca Pasquarelli
Graduate Student
About
Rebecca earned her B.S. in Biology from Brown University and is now a doctoral student in Molecular Biology. She is a native Rhode Islander and after her undergraduate studies, decided to move from the smallest US state to the much more populated bustling city of Los Angeles. In the lab, she studies essential proteins of the inner membrane complex involved with T. gondii daughter formation. When she’s not spending time on the microscope, Rebecca enjoys playing video games, laughing at trashy reality TV shows, and walking her spirited dog Beans.
Rebecca will be starting her new post-doc position at Harvard University starting in fall 2024.
Education and Degree(s)
- B.S. in Biology from Brown University
Publications
- Pasquarelli RR, Sha J, Wohlschlegel JA, Bradley PJ. BCC0 collaborates with IMC32 and IMC43 to form the Toxoplasma gondii essential daughter bud assembly complex. PLOS Pathogens. 2024 July 18;20(7): e1012411. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1012411
- Pasquarelli RR, Quan JJ, Yang V, Britton TA, Sha J, Wohlschlegel JA, Bradley PJ. Characterization and functional analysis of Toxoplasma Golgi-associated proteins identified by proximity labelling. bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2024 Feb 3:2024.02.02.578703. doi: 10.1101/2024.02.02.578703. PMID: 38352341; PMCID: PMC10862792.
- Pasquarelli RR, Back PS, Sha J, Wohlschlegel JA, Bradley PJ (2023). Identification of IMC43, a novel IMC protein that collaborates with IMC32 to form an essential daughter bud assembly complex in Toxoplasma gondii. PLOS Pathogens 19(10): e1011707. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1011707. PMID: 37782662; PMCID: PMC10569561.
- Back PS, Moon AS, Pasquarelli RR, Bell HN, Torres JA, Chen AL, Sha J, Vashisht AA, Wohlschlegel JA, Bradley PJ. IMC29 Plays an Important Role in Toxoplasma Endodyogeny and Reveals New Components of the Daughter-Enriched IMC Proteome. mBio. 2023 Feb 28;14(1):e0304222. doi: 10.1128/mbio.03042-22. Epub 2023 Jan 9. PMID: 36622147; PMCID: PMC9973257.