Elizabeth Villa @TheVillaLab Twitter profile

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Elizabeth Villa

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It cannot be done, they said.. It's too flexible, they said.. 😁 #NPC #teamtomo #integrativemodeling by @dgvjayS @neeleshsoni03 @JoshHutchings94 @ig_ech et al. Great collaboration w/ Qiang Guo, Brian Chait, Javi Fernandez-Mtnz, @RoutLab_RU @salilab_ucsf

The Molecular Architecture of the Nuclear Basket

The nuclear pore complex (NPC) is the sole mediator of nucle-ocytoplasmic transport. Despite great advances in understanding its conserved core architecture, the peripheral regions can exhibit...

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

3 years

Promoted to Associate Professor with tenure 🤩 possible thanks to the amazing past and present lab members, our fantastic collaborators, and the very supportive environment at @ucsdbiosciences that allowed us to build a complex research infrastructure from scratch. Let's go!

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

3 years

Thrilled to announce that today I became an American citizen🇺🇸🗽! What a ride have the past few weeks been, full of low probability events: tenure @ucsdbiosciences , COVID not-so-mild breakthrough infection, selected as @HHMINEWS investigator, and now this! *phew* #grateful 🙏🏼 1/n

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

4 years

So happy that our paper determining the structure of Parkinson’s Disease linked LRRK2 in situ is now in print. Since I didn’t described it when we posted it to bioRxiv, here it goes.. 1/n

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

5 years

Excited to share our work describing the weirdest cell biology in #bacteria , with large #phage as the production master. A wonderful collaboration with Joe Pogliano using molecular biology, live-cell imaging and #cryoEM #cryoET

Viral Capsid Trafficking along Treadmilling Tubulin Filaments in Bacteria

Bacteriophage-encoded tubulin-like proteins form treadmilling filaments in their bacterial host to transport viral capsids to the subcellular compartment where phage DNA is replicated and transcribed.

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

5 years

Eric Betzig just told me he was jealous of my images 😊. I think I should just retire now.

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

1 year

Being part of a dream team of basic & translational scientists working toward a common goal is exhilarating.Thanks @HHMInews for support! @ucsdbiosciences @UCSDMedSchool @IPATH @JCVD @YaleCellBio @YalePhage #phagetherapy #phagenucleus #AntibioticResistance

Therapeutic Potential of Bizarre ‘Jumbo’ Viruses Tapped for $10M HHMI Emerging Pathogens Project

UC San Diego and its collaborating partners have been awarded $10 million from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to leverage the biomedical promise of viruses known as bacteriophages as new...

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

1 year

🚨New PIs (US): apply to be an early career reviewer (ECR) for an NIH study session. It’s a one-time commitment, you only review 2-3 grants, get training, get to meet the people who will evaluate your grants, and see how the sausage is made! … RT 🙏

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

4 years

I thought I would burst of pride today. @khannakanika111 is the first PhD student to graduate from my lab. I could’ve not hoped for anyone more creative, kind, insightful and overall a joy to be around! Many many congratulations Dr. Khanna!

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

1 year

#teamtomo tweeps, @lindsey__young wrote a tell-all. Clutch your pearls and get ready to plan your project! (Or explain to your structure or cell bio friends how to think about it) Including epic illustration w/ @DoroteaArt . Pls RT!

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

2 years

🔥 an absolute pleasure to grow punk with you ♥️

Rommie Amaro

@RommieAmaro

2 years

how it started how it's going

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

3 years

I can finally start speaking my mind 😂

Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

3 years

Promoted to Associate Professor with tenure 🤩 possible thanks to the amazing past and present lab members, our fantastic collaborators, and the very supportive environment at @ucsdbiosciences that allowed us to build a complex research infrastructure from scratch. Let's go!

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

3 months

This is happening 🤩 #BPS2024 @CarolynBertozzi @taekjip @binwu1 @Cisse_lab @airstreets @BiophysicalSoc

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

4 years

@DMSabatini Same. And also puts pressure on the young scientists who may not have those responsibilities but may be struggling with anxiety.

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

1 year

@ulrich_hofmann @serasolders Except if you’re a foreigner 😉 then you’re in stupendium and have very bad healthcare, no pension. Your point stands in many ways, I had a very good quality of life as a postdoc in Germany and loved it, but a good to remember that it’s not the same for all.

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

3 months

That’s a wrap! 🎬 Thank you so much @taekjip for giving @IbrahimCisse_ and me a chance to work together and highlight the work of wonderful colleagues. Hope you all had a good time and see you in LA! @BiophysicalSoc #BPS2024 #BPS2025 (We are as tired as we look 😁)

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

6 years

#bestgiftever

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

4 years

Excited to share @khannakanika111 's latest #preprint on the divisome of Bacillus subtilis during sporulation! This is part of a long, fun, and exciting collaboration with @kit_ucsd #cryoET #grampositive #divisome @JavierL54602423 @ucsdbiosciences 1/

Asymmetric localization of the cell division machinery during Bacillus subtilis sporulation

The mechanistic details of bacterial cell division are poorly understood. The Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis can divide via two modes. During vegetative growth, the division septum is...

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

2 years

@Amelia_Lindsey Funny, I don’t see this as super different or more horrifying compared to some of the things that are called tacos in the US 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

1 year

5yrs ago, we got an Aquilos & Titan installed after 3+ years thinking (screaming) our research agenda was a sinking🚢⚓️ (instrumentation & other challenges). Early PIs, bet on your vision! Walk confidently 🥴 in the direction of your dreams, & 👏let others help it through 👏

Microscopy & Spectroscopy

@thermosciEMSpec

1 year

We can't believe it's been nearly 5 years since your Aquilos arrival @TheVillaLab ! Celebrating you and our global network of Aquilos users today in honor of 100 Aquilos Cryo-FIBs worldwide. #Aquilos100 #TeamTomo

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

3 years

Is there anything jumbo phage doesn’t do in cells? Phage spindle, phage nucleus, phage bouquets 💐

Kanika Khanna

@khannakanika111

3 years

Amidst all chaos/distress back home, happy to share our preprint on how jumbo phages form these beautiful bouquets inside Pseudomonas during maturation. Work led by Vorrapon (Joe Pogliano lab), @TheVillaLab , Katrina, Mac, @EnustunEray , @Emy_nim , @kit_ucsd 💐

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

2 years

Have you ever been frustrated re: reviews of an NIH fellowship (F) application? Maybe yours? I'm chairing a workgroup to review the criteria and make recommendations for making it more fair and equitable. We would like your input! @CSRpeerreview 1/4

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

1 year

Happening now OMG OMG 🤩

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

2 years

In many areas of science prediction is followed by experimental confirmation, - e.g., physics. All models are wrong, some are useful; their usefulness evolves. The hype is real, but trying to maintain a chasm between experiment and theory is not only futile but not constructive🤷🏻‍♀️

Tamir Gonen 🎗️

@gonenlab

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"Determined" and "solved" are words reserved for experiments, not to predictions. They predicted structures. But predictions shouldn't be taken as facts. Too many fields of science suffered and still do by wrong predictions and computer simulations

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

2 years

Enjoying #JF80 with friends I’ve admired for a long time: @TheBlanchardLabb , @GreenLabJHMI , @NogalesLab , @BeckmannLab

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

3 months

😱🤩 Amazing to see

Annual Reviews

@AnnualReviews

3 months

🎉 Top downloaded article in 2023: Bringing Structure to Cell Biology with Cryo-Electron Tomography Read the #OpenAccess article authored by @lindsey__young and @TheVillaLab : .

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

2 years

For those who celebrate #ValentinesDay , what better than a #bouquet 💐 made of #jumbophage ?

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

2 years

First time voting 🎉🇺🇸👊🤞, took my ballot to the post office with my daughter. Felt special, daring to feel hopeful.

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

2 years

#GilliamFellows @HHMINEWS announcements give me all the feels. Amazing backstories and the future ahead ♥️. Congratulations! For all who applied and didn’t get it, you are crushing and have an amazing advisor who is excited to go on this journey with you and will support you.

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

2 years

And now in press! This is the author link but the paper will be #openaccess . Super happy about the efforts of @HHMINEWS , planS and others for moving the needle in the right direction

Digvijay Singh

@dgvjayS

3 years

Comprehensive structural analysis of #NPC , using a slew of techniques including #SPA , #insitu #cryoET & #IntegrativeModeling . Great collaboration between Akey, Rout, @TheVillaLab , @sludtke , & @salilab_ucsf labs, led by Chris, Christna, @ig_ech & me. A🧵 1/n

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

3 years

Wise investment from @ChanZuckerberg in a smart, creative and generous scientist like @manorlaboratory . Congratulations dear friend 🎊

Salk Institute

@salkinstitute

3 years

Salk’s Uri Manor to receive over $690,000 from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to develop new open-source imaging tools and data sets while expanding educational outreach @manorlaboratory via @salkinstitute @ChanZuckerberg

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

1 year

Have been waiting for this one. Such an inspiring group of kind and strong scientists. Well done @HHMINEWS and congratulations to all the new Fellows!

HHMI NEWS

@HHMINEWS

1 year

Please join us in celebrating the new Freeman Hrabowski Scholars, who will help us build a strong foundation for the next generation of scientists! #FHScholars

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

2 years

Why not? We didn’t have to play by the rules… 🎯

Maly Cosco

@malycat03

2 years

Impactful words by @CarolynBertozzi today on how diversity in her trainees enabled creativity, not playing by the rules, and ultimately the work that built the field of bioorthogonal chemistry. Diverse science leads to better science!

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

6 years

Craig Mello telling us to pursue the little weird things that bother us, not the ones we know will work #pew2018 @pewtrusts 😍

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

4 years

CryoEM tweeps: join us @ #bps2020 subgroup “Cryo-Electron Microscopy: From Atoms to Cells and Beyond” 6-10pm, room 31ABC. Fantastic lineup: #DaviddeRosier @MoellerGroup @BriegelAriane @vignesh_k757 @khannakanika111 #JuergenPlitzko @bcarra2 @cobarnes27 and #NikoGrigorieff 💧🎤

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

2 years

Besides meeting old friends and making new ones #ACE5 , I went to the Weltmuseum to see one of the few remaining chimalli! Chimalli means shield in Nahuatl, and it was worn by Aztec warriors. We named the phage nucleus shell protein #chimallin

Tom Laughlin

@3rdFloorTom

2 years

Also, we decided ‘gp105’ was a confusing name (for this phage , gp53 encodes for…gp105? 🤦) Instead, we propose ‘chimallin’ (from chimalli - meaning shield). So gp105 -> chimallinA (ChmA) and the to be ID components ChmB, ChmC, etc. 16/n

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

3 years

Just want to put out there the amazing environment for junior PIs @ucsdbiosciences . Recent and current @pewtrusts fellows include @brendabl00dg00d @UCSDCooperLab @racheljdutton @Daugherty_Lab @hui_enfu @Neal_Lab and now @CressidaMadigan , and other amazing and supportive alumni♥️

UCSD BioSciences

@ucsdbiosciences

3 years

The @pewtrusts announced today that @UCSanDiego Biological Sciences Assistant Professor @CressidaMadigan has been selected for the 2021 Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences. Details: @pewhealth

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

1 year

Have been looking forward to this one for a while!!! 👀🤩

SwuliusLab

@SwuliusLab

1 year

We’re excited to share cryo-TomoSim (aka CTS), our #cryoET modeling and simulation software, in addition to our new preprint documenting its use in training regressive denoising and semantic segmentation U-Nets.

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

4 years

@SjorsScheres @NobelPrize @MRC_LMB Should’ve been Kiyoshi 😔

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

6 years

Exciting times for #cryoEM , and a great community. Thanks everyone for coming! #KScryoEM

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

8 months

Another chapter in the exhilarating quest to understand jumbo phage with @PoglianoJoe , @_KevinCorbett et al. Come for the #phagenucleus (which is essential), stay for the transcriptionally active, mRNA-exporting, membrane-bound prenucleus - the early infection (EPI) vesicle.

Emily Armbruster

@Emy_nim

8 months

Super excited to share our pre-print and my first ‘first author’ work: “Sequential membrane- and protein-bound organelles compartmentalize genomes during phage infection.” @ucsdbiosciences @hhminews 🧵1/

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

3 years

It is now impossible to write a paragraph without this image popping into my head. Thanks @OdedRechavi 😂

Oded Rechavi

@OdedRechavi

3 years

Cryo-E.T

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

1 year

Good to be home for #BPS2023 . Please come see presentations from lab members (ongoing work done in the lab and before they joined) #teamtomo #cryoem #linc #chromatin #phagenucleus #lrrk2

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

3 years

I was lucky to take a class from Carl while I was a grad student @Illinois_Alma #biophysics 🤩

Genomic Biology

@IGBIllinois

3 years

On this day, 44 years ago, Carl Woese published his discovery of the third domain of life: archaea! You can find the paper at .

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

4 years

And here is the follow up work, with amazing collaborators!

Andres Leschziner

@aleschziner

4 years

Our paper with @SamReckPeterson , @TheVillaLab and Stefan Knapp on #LRRK2 and #parkinson is out! Thanks to @MichaelJFoxOrg for their support. Congrats to @ColinDeniston , @JSalogiannis , @ChasingKinases and the rest of the team! #cryoEM

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

5 years

So proud of @khannakanika111 for being awarded the Goeddel Chancellor’s award. Congratulations Kanika! #proudmama

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

3 years

Email the authors!! Any of them (don't rely on the corresponding author to reply 🙈). It took me too long to realize the authors welcome the requests and you never know what interesting scientific friendships you may begin

Matt Wall (@mattwall.bsky.social)

@m_wall

3 years

Just got the sweetest, very apologetic email from a student asking me for a copy of a paper because she can't afford the publisher's fee to buy a copy. 😢 NEVER PAY THE PUBLISHERS. Email the authors instead - we LOVE it.

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

5 months

OK I came back to RT an awesome job posting @ucsdbiosciences and now I'm wondering why I left. Have seen great papers, people highlighting them with awesome vibes, and a lot of the good things I came here in the first place for. How long will it last?🤞Until then, I'm back!

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

11 months

🚨If you were ever horrified or annoyed by writing or reading reviews to an NIH fellowship application, please see the proposed changes and comment! Either enthusiasm or constructive suggestions are important to effect change. Deadline for comments June 23

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

2 years

🎉 next step: allow for this (and more according to local child care costs) for all trainees paid with @NIH funds. 1/n

Tim Stearns

@StearnsLab

2 years

Kudos to @NIH for providing $2500/yr in childcare costs to grad students and postdocs on training grants. It doesn’t cover the full cost, but it helps.

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

2 years

The #phagenucleus has been a constant source of wonder and fun. Every time we peek, there is a new weird thread to pull. This is what doing science should always be like! @HHMINEWS @ucsdbiosciences #teamtomo

Tom Laughlin

@3rdFloorTom

2 years

🚨 New pre-print on (perhaps) the largest proteinaceous organelle: the phage nucleus!. A cumulative effort of labs across @UCSD 1/n

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

6 years

Aquilos arrival! #grouphug

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

4 years

@Luiss_Flow @UCSanDiego For one, I will try to post my lecture slides well in advance (I used to do it 10 min before class, not thinking some students wouldn't have access to them in class). Have your brother DM me so I can congratulate him over coffee 😊

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

2 years

This is true, alas not only in the US. It’s lack of empathy - most people have never been immigrants and they don’t get how what they perceive as small issues cause severe anxiety and impact life quality. But as with many issues, ignorance is not an excuse. Must do better.

Vikas Navratna

@vikasnavaratna

2 years

If you care for international researchers in your organization, you should read these two articles. No matter what you do/ say, international researchers will be scared to report abuse, because they don't want to lose their livelihood. Vast majority of them don't come from money.

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

3 years

Trying to figure out who’s luckiest: the advisors for having such amazing students, the students for having this awesome recognition, HHMI for having them all, or us around them for being able to interact with them already now and after they benefit from this great program 🤔🤩🎉

UCSD BioSciences

@ucsdbiosciences

3 years

Congratulations to Analine Aguayo and advisor Sonya Neal, as well as graduate student Tara Spencer and advisor Rachel Dutton, on being selected to receive 2021 Gilliam Fellowships for Advanced Study from Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

8 months

🚨Can't wait for the @BiophysicalSoc meeting this year! Please submit abstracts by October 1st. NEW: PIs/group leaders please take note: you can apply for a symposium talk! We encourage junior PIs to submit an abstract. Hope to see you in Philly!

Taekjip Ha

@taekjip

8 months

The 2024 Biophysical Society meeting will be in Philadelphia. The abstract deadline is just about two weeks away. We have the BPS Lecture by @CarolynBertozzi and an exciting program by @TheVillaLab and Ibrahim Cisse. And the dance is back!

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

2 years

Happy #WomenInSTEMDay ! I'm lucky to work alongside amazing women in the lab now and in the past 7 years: @ReikaWatanabe2 @khannakanika111 @MartinaAudagno3 #AmyPrichard @lindsey__young @eva_karasmanis @JelaniLyda @TakoBasiashvili #KaiaTo

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@TheVillaLab

3 months

If you went to #BPS2024 , you will get a survey in your inbox. Please fill it out! It is taken very seriously by the society and the future chairs @BiophysicalSoc Please RT.

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

2 years

Had a lot of fun meeting @jsomers last summer. So excited that @lindsey__young and I were included in his great @newyorker article A Journey to the Center of our Cells

A Journey to the Center of Our Cells

Biologists are discovering the true nature of cells—and learning to build their own.

www.newyorker.com

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

3 years

Today is Klaus’ birthday. I still often want to call him to tell him about something exciting/awful that happened. I miss him a lot, and I feel super lucky to have been his mentee! His advice, love and passion for science definitely stays with me forever! 💜💜💜

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

5 years

#RichardHenderson giving his talk as a #SeaborgMedal recipient told us that a grid frozen in 2000 still gave a good structure when the direct detectors came out (taken in 2016!) Don’t thaw your grids for the grid boxes!

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

6 years

A celebration for @joachimfrank at #KScryoem . It was supposed to say “To ribosomebody special” 😂 I think Ribo is @joachimfrank ’s new nickname

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

2 years

Amazing to be at ⁦ @humantechnopole ⁩. Im hoping ⁦ @AndreaMusacchi1 ⁩ will be live tweeting the talks

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

2 years

Matt's work using deconvolution for cryo-ET is now published! It was a fun collaboration with John Sedat, Mike Elbaum and others exploring the twilight zone of tomo (aka missing wedge). We hope it will be useful to #teamtomo

Matt Croxford

@matt_croxford

2 years

And it's out!

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

5 years

Lab party #SoLucky #paella

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

2 years

Thanks @HHMINEWS for highlighting our work ❤️

HHMI NEWS

@HHMINEWS

2 years

#Jumbophages use chimallin, a previously undescribed protein, to form a protective nuclear shell that protects their DNA during attack as recently unveiled by Elizabeth Villa ( @TheVillaLab ) and her team: (initial preprint thread below!)

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

2 years

I always regret not having found out about @NewPI_Slack when it was relevant for me. Being a new PI is isolating, you keep reinventing the wheel and your colleagues keep forgetting the advice you need until after you’ve figured it out (I do now too! 🤦🏻‍♀️) What a great community!

Soragni:Lab

@soragnilab

2 years

All good things come to an end. Today, I left @NewPI_Slack as it is time for me to move on. I cannot express well enough all that this amazing community has done for me, both personally and professionally. It has been a lifeline when I joined 5 years ago 🧵

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

3 years

Congratulations to our very own @CJ_Tara and Analine Aguayo (and their awesome advisors @racheljdutton and @Neal_Lab ) and all other new #GilliamFellows 🥳

HHMI NEWS

@HHMINEWS

3 years

Today HHMI announces our largest group of new #GilliamFellows as part of our commitment to advance diversity and inclusion in science. Learn more and meet the Fellows:

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

2 years

Sad to miss #bps2022 this year. Can’t wait to catch up next year! Please see our lab represented by @dgvjayS speaking about the #insitu yeast #NPC tomorrow 2/21 at 4:15 #teamtomo ! full info 👇

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

2 years

Thank you for the invitation! It was really fun to talk about the obstacles when it has a happy ending, and a friendly audience 😊

Miri Krupkin

@MiriKrupkin

2 years

Fantastic talk by Elizabeth Villa at the #cryoEM #journalclub today, demonstrating how #cryoET can be used to gap between structural biology and cell biology! @TheVillaLab @Stanford

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

1 year

If i have ever ghosted you with an invitation sent by email: I am so sorry. I will be better (I don’t know how to do email better but I will try). I am chairing a large meeting and I’m humbled by how awesome ppl are at replying. Thank you 🙏

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@TheVillaLab

3 years

#teamtomo #crowdedglory 🤩❄️🔬🧫

nature

@Nature

3 years

Cutting-edge microscopy techniques are allowing researchers to spy on the innards of cells in all their crowded glory.

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

5 years

We’re thankful our lab is moving to the new @UCSanDiego #TataHall next week! (We’ll be even more thankful once we’re settled in)

UCSD BioSciences

@ucsdbiosciences

5 years

We're giving THANKS for the opening of Tata Hall for the Sciences, @UCSanDiego 's new facility with undergraduate teaching laboratories and research space for Biological Sciences and Physical Sciences. Enjoy this drone aerial tour of the new building... and Happy Thanksgiving!

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

4 years

Elegant biophysics showing biocondensates in bacteria! Strong reminder that I shouldn't wait until next year to give my cell bio undergrad class a lecture about membraneless compartments and how exquisitely they regulate biochemistry

Keren Lasker

@LaskerKeren

4 years

Happy to share the results of a fun project with @lexy_von_diez : #caulobactercresentus poles are @BioCondensates reinforcing asymmetry through selective sequestration of signaling proteins. Wonderful collaboration between @MoernerLab and Lucy Shapiro lab.

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

3 years

I'm also grateful to have been selected to be an @HHMInews investigator. Excited to continue doing high-risk research, now thinking longer term and on turbo😁. This opportunity will enable us to test and implement new ideas and some old ones that were on stand by 4/n

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

4 years

Standing room only for #DaviddeRosier making us think about how to find our elusive protein in the burrito that is a cell #wheretoFIB . Exciting times ahead for #CLEM

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

5 years

Happy Purim and End of Quarter!! Final for my Cell Biology class. BEST TAs* EVER! #DrEvil #winter2019 #cellbio @ucsdbiosciences #Hamantashen

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

3 years

This👇

March For Science

@MarchForScience

3 years

To those who still wear their mask below their nose, it’s been almost a year now; it takes less time to potty train a toddler

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

6 years

Honored to have been elected chair of the #cryoEM subgroup at the @BiophysicalSoc Meeting 2020 in San Diego

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

2 years

Chimalli is #nahuatl for the shield that the #Aztecs used in battle. We loved the idea of using this name that describes the function of the #phagenucleus to honor a culture that is not traditionally used for naming conventions (i.e. Greek or Latin): Chimallin.

Tom Laughlin

@3rdFloorTom

2 years

Also, we decided ‘gp105’ was a confusing name (for this phage , gp53 encodes for…gp105? 🤦) Instead, we propose ‘chimallin’ (from chimalli - meaning shield). So gp105 -> chimallinA (ChmA) and the to be ID components ChmB, ChmC, etc. 16/n

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

4 years

Last year, my final coincided with #purim , so we started a tradition in which the TAs for my Cell Bio class and I would dress up during the final. This year, we kept the tradition by answering questions on #zoom ! Thanks everyone for a wonderful quarter! #cellbiologyrules

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

2 years

@gonenlab All models are wrong in all fields of science, it’s only about how wrong (you may call it accurate) they are.

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

4 years

@Luiss_Flow Great job, Luis! I am a professor at @UCSanDiego and I am so proud of your brother! Thank you for posting this, it reminds us of the extra work some fantastic students have to do to perform well.

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

2 years

When I first visited Janelia and visited the jET group I was giddy. This is an amazing group that enables crazy science!

HHMI | Janelia

@HHMIJanelia

2 years

Join us and lead a group of ~15 talented engineers and scientists. Coordinate the creation of state-of-the-art devices and software in collaboration with research groups at Janelia. Oversee projects for Janelia and the broader scientific community. [2/3]

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

5 years

It was an honor to speak at the #SeaborgMedal symposium @uclachem honoring #BobGlaeser and #RichardHenderson for their pioneering work in #cryoEM . Thank you #JuliFeigon , #DavidEisenberg , @gonenlab , and #HongZhou for your hospitality.

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

10 months

💃🏻we are soooo excited (and lucky) to have you! Welcome dear friend!! ♥️🔥

Uri Manor 💔

@manorlaboratory

10 months

As of July 1st I have moved over to ⁦ @ucsdbiosciences ⁩ (and an ⁦ @HDSIUCSD ⁩ affiliate) as a tenure-track Assistant Professor and I will also be Director of the new Technology Sandbox - I am so so SO excited!!!

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

4 years

What better way to spend a Friday night. Come support these budding artist scientists and enjoy their work!

Beata Science Art

@beatascienceart

4 years

Come join the opening of the #WomenInSTEM Art Showcase at @UCSanDiego TONIGHT at 6 pm! I'll be exhibiting my #SciArt & microscopy dress featuring #mitosis and the #cytoskeleton 🔬. It would be lovely to see you! #InternationalWomensDay #WomensHistoryMonth

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

2 years

Amazing ventilation yesterday at #JF80 all day, both in the auditorium and in the coffee break/lunch room. CO2 levels w/Aranet4. Left my hotel room, right taxi ride (!) end of day. Those levels are very good. Kudos to the organizers on wonderful science and a safe environment!

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

5 years

It has it all: a nucleus that separates transcription and translation and that imports and exports proteins and mRNA, and filaments that treadmill to transport the #viralcapsids into the nucleus. Watch the fantastic movie by the great @janetiwasa

UCSD BioSciences

@ucsdbiosciences

5 years

“With new technologies we can start to understand the amazing inner life of bacteria..." -- @TheVillaLab “No one has seen this intracellular cargo travelling along a filament in bacterial cells before.” -- Prof Joe Pogliano Here's what they are seeing for the first time...

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

2 years

Every year, I witness students struggling to get committee meetings scheduled. It became easier in the last 2 years, but it's back to the old unnecessary routine of sending polls, not hearing back, starting again. There should be an easy way for faculty to enter availability 1/2

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

5 years

Did I mention Joe and I are hiring postdocs? Come join our team! It’s a great collaboration that also includes David Agard. Please send inquires to phagenucleus @ucsd .edu We’re just getting started! Please RT.

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

3 months

It was mind blowing! The future is bright 🔥🔥🔥

Rosana Collepardo

@rcollepardo

3 months

The amazing @jerelleaj at her Future of Biophysics Lecture #BPS2024 🔥🔥🔥

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

6 years

Kicked off the First Keystone Symposium on Cryo-EM from Cells to Molecules with a wonderful keynote opening talk by @CramerLab . Exciting diverse audience of experts, converts, and newcomers! #KScryoEM #CryoEM

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

3 years

This👇should show you that you can do anything without a #GRFP ! And also, for international students who don’t even get to apply to this and the vast majority of grad fellowships: I 👀 you, and you can do amazing things regardless!

Rachel J Dutton

@racheljdutton

3 years

Congrats to all those getting the @NSF #GRFP this year! And to all the many other talented, deserving scientists who didn’t get it- the rejection stings. I should know, I was turned down for it both times I applied! Take time to process it, and move forward stronger!

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

4 years

Very excited to visit MCB Berkeley today!

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

2 years

The meeting was truly extraordinary and stimulating, and it was wild to realize I was the most senior PI presenting! (My lab is 8yo, not that old?) The future is so bright 🔥

Plaschka Lab

@plaschka_lab

2 years

What a blast! Thank you to all speakers and poster presenters for sharing your fantastic work with us! @TheVillaLab , @BolandLab_GE , @the_gold_lab , @alanbrownhms , @OliBClarke , @FrancesCryoEM , @Sveta_Dodonova , @williamnwan , Arjen Jacobi, @AbhayKot , @alexanderbelyy1 , @CryoSagar

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

2 years

Agree completely! Money alone does not make the dream science location I visited this week. The future is very bright for Italian science - creativity, high end research, interesting and kind people. Technopole should be a template for future investment.

Andrea Musacchio

@AndreaMusacchi1

2 years

1/ In only few years Human Technopole @humantechnopole has grown to become an internationally highly competitive research institution. Attributing its success solely to its core funding is incorrect. Support it necessary but insufficient for success.

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

3 years

Please see this 👇👇👇 There are many instances in which reviewers use inappropriate metrics to review proposals (tbf, sometimes inadvertently). You should contact the SRO and PO. True also for junior PIs (and even senior, but most irritating for trainees).

NIH Center for Scientific Review

@CSRpeerreview

3 years

@AndreaMerchak @CentreC It's not appropriate to evaluate the strength of an undergraduate degree based on name recognition. Please contact the scientific review officer and your program officer.

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

11 months

It’s been challenging lately on a personal level but hey.. every time I drop my phone dramatically and it doesn’t shatter.. #silverlinings

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Elizabeth Villa

@TheVillaLab

4 years

Nice to see the concepts that first got me interested in cryo-EM starting to get realized - and by the person who first inspired (and lured) me, no less!

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