Elizabeth Villa
I was a graduate student in the TCBG. In 2008, I received my Ph.D. in Biophysics.
You can still reach me at villa@ks.uiu.edu
At present, I am a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Wolfgang Baumeister at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Munich.
Contact:
    Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
    Abt. Baumeister
    Am Klopferspitz 18
    82152 Martinsried
    Germany     Phone: +49 (89) 8578 2617
    E-mail: villa@biochem.mpg.de
Research Projects
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Multiscale modeling of protein-DNA complexes | Flexible Fitting of Atomic Structures into EM maps | Structure and Dynamics of the Ribosome |
Publications
Structural insight into nascent
polypeptide chain-mediated translational stalling.
Birgit Seidelt, C. Axel Innis, Daniel N. Wilson, Marco Gartmann, Jean-Paul Armache,
EV , Leonardo G. Trabuco, Thomas Becker, Thorsten Mielke, Klaus Schulten, Thomas A. Steitz, and Roland Beckmann.
Science, 2009. In press.
Regulation of the protein-conducting channel by a bound
ribosome.
James Gumbart, Leonardo G. Trabuco, Eduard Schreiner,
EV , and Klaus Schulten. Structure , 2009. In press.
Protein-induced membrane curvature investigated through molecular
dynamics flexible fitting.
Jen Hsin, James Gumbart, Leonardo
G. Trabuco, EV, Pu Qian, C. Neil Hunter, and Klaus
Schulten. Biophysical Journal, 97:321-329, 2009.
Molecular dynamics flexible fitting: A practical guide to combine
cryo-electron microscopy and x-ray crystallography.
Leonardo
G. Trabuco*, EV*, Eduard Schreiner, Christopher
B. Harrison, and Klaus Schulten. Methods, 49:174-180, 2009.
Ribosome-induced changes in elongation factor Tu conformation control GTP hydrolysis.
EV*, Jayati Sengupta*, Leonardo G. Trabuco, Jamie
LeBarron, William T. Baxter, Tanvir R. Shaikh,
Robert A. Grassucci, Poul Nissen, Måns Ehrenberg, Klaus
Schulten, and Joachim Frank.
Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences, USA, 106:1063-1068, 2009.
Structural
model and excitonic properties of the dimeric RC-LH1-PufX
complex from Rhodobacter sphaeroides.
Melih K. Sener, Jen Hsin, Leonardo G. Trabuco, EV, Pu Qian,
C. Neil Hunter, and Klaus Schulten.
Chemical Physics,, 357:188-197, 2009.
Long
time and large size molecular dynamics simulations made feasible
through new TeraGrid hardware and software.
Kirby Vandivort, James C. Phillips, EV, Peter
L. Freddolino, James Gumbart, Leonardo G. Trabuco, Danielle
E. Chandler, Jen Hsin, Christopher B. Harrison, Laxmikant Kale,
and Klaus Schulten. Proceedings of the 2008 TeraGrid
Conference, 2008.
Flexible
fitting of atomic structures into electron microscopy maps using
molecular dynamics.
Leonardo G. Trabuco*, EV*, Kakoli Mitra, Joachim Frank,
and Klaus Schulten. Structure, 16:673-683, 2008.
Molecular
mechanisms of cellular mechanics.
Mu Gao, Marcos Sotomayor, EV, Eric Lee, and Klaus
Schulten. Physical Chemistry - Chemical Physics,
8:3692-3706, 2006.
Scalable
molecular dynamics with NAMD.
James C. Phillips, Rosemary Braun, Wei Wang, James Gumbart, Emad
Tajkhorshid, EV, Christophe Chipot,
Robert D. Skeel, Laxmikant Kale, and Klaus
Schulten. Journal of Computational Chemistry,
26:1781-1802, 2005.
Structural
dynamics of the Lac repressor-DNA complex revealed by a
multiscale simulation.
EV, Alexander Balaeff, and Klaus Schulten. Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 102:6783-6788,
2005.
Multi-scale method for simulating protein-DNA complexes.
EV, Alexander Balaeff, L. Mahadevan, and Klaus
Schulten. Multiscale Modeling and Simulation, 2:527-553,
2004.
*Equal contribution