Elizabeth Villa
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Elizabeth Villa Rodriguez | |
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| Alma mater | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign National Autonomous University of Mexico |
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| Institutions | Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry University of California, San Diego |
| Thesis | Multiscale Modeling of Biomolecular Complexes (2008) |
Elizabeth Villa is an American biophysicist who is Associate Professor at the University of California, San Diego. Her research considers the development of Cryo Electron Tomography and structural biology. She was named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Investigator in 2021.
Villa grew up in Mexico, which is where she first studied physics.[1] She earned her doctorate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where she worked as a Fulbright Fellow. She completed her research in the laboratory of Klaus Schulten on the modeling of biomolecular complexes.[2] During her doctorate, she was introduced to cryogenic electron microscopy, and worked with Joachim Frank on approaches to combine X-ray crystallography with Cryo EM and molecular dynamics.[3] She moved to the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions as a postdoctoral fellow.[4]
