Elizabeth Villa
@TheVillaLab
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biophysicist @ucsdbiosciences @hhminews, cell exploration, molecular anthropology @[email protected]
La Jolla, San Diego
Joined January 2016
The Cryo-EM: the next 50 years Symposium held yesterday at @UCBerkeley was a smashing success!!
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I'm extremely excited to announce that I've been promoted to Senior Group Leader (with tenure) at the @IMPvienna. A BIG thank you to every lab member for your fantastic work over the years, and to our wonderful colleagues, mentors, and friends for their continued support.
Congratulations to Clemens Plaschka, who was promoted to Senior Group Leader at the IMP. We are thrilled and look forward to Clemens steering his research as part of our community for many more years to come! https://t.co/asQC5kWGaE
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Mark your calendars! Jan. 16 (11:59pm MST) is your last chance to submit your abstract or scholarship application for a short talk alongside @TheVillaLab and others at Imaging Biomolecules Across Scales. Don't miss out—apply now: https://t.co/vwGxymM3Y0
#KSImaging25
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I am very proud to be in the advisory board for this program. If you have any questions, please reach out at bsky! Orgullosa de estar en el comité de asesores de este programa. Si tienes preguntas, contáctame en bsky!
I am thrilled that we are amplifying our Latin American Fellow's program with CZI! Excited for this partnership!
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I am thrilled that we are amplifying our Latin American Fellow's program with CZI! Excited for this partnership!
In partnership with @Pewtrusts, we are supporting the Latin American Fellows program, which helps early-career biomedical scientists receive postdoctoral training + the resources they need to start a lab in their home country https://t.co/4uHG2noNeo
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CZII’s particle picking machine learning challenge is up and running. There are already 1000 signups on Kaggle. Follow this page for an introduction and links to all sorts of material and resources, including two preprints:
cryoetdataportal.czscience.com
Learn about the winners of our competition to advance the understanding of cell biology through machine learning algorithms to annotate particles in 3D images of cells captured by cryoET.
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Exciting news! I started the junior research group 'Complexes in Phage-infected Cells' at Helmholtz Centre for Infection research @Helmholtz_HZI looking forward to explore new jumbo phage biology. We’re hiring! Join us for a PhD position.
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1/5 🎉 Thrilled to share our lab's first paper, published today in @PNASNews! As a new PI, this perspective piece represents months of discussions with my amazing students Hailey and Assa about the future of RNA oxidation in neurodegeneration. https://t.co/xqm7rlmQbf
pnas.org
Over two decades ago, increased levels of RNA oxidation were reported in postmortem patients with ALS, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and other neurodeg...
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Bioluminescence illuminated the waves near @Scripps_Ocean pier on Oct 29 from 10 p.m. to midnight. ✨ 📸: @erikjepsen
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Last chance to register! Come and join us in Vienna, to discuss exciting new findings using cryo-EM and -ET.
Last chance to register to our this year Austrian cryoEM meeting. While speakers for abstract talks have been selected, we have some spots for posters left. We have extended the deadline until monday.
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Our latest paper is out and we have just released an update of CryoVesNet code for automatic segmentation of synaptic vesicles https://t.co/SJpyot7B82. It now includes a Pyto wrapper to easily segment tethers and connectors. A lot of credits to @AmeeeeNeuro. #TeamTomo
github.com
segmentation of spherical vesicles in cryo-electron tomography - Zuber-group/CryoVesNet
In @JCellBiol, @AmeeeenNeuro @guiwitz @ben808080 et al. developed CryoVesNet, which enables accurate segmentation of synaptic vesicles in cryo-electron tomograms. This tool advances our understanding of synaptic function and synaptic vesicle pool dynamics. https://t.co/xOVVM0866T
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🌟"The thrill of asking new questions and seeing them answered... keeps the quest going." – Prof. Eva Nogales, 2023 #ShawPrize Laureate. Get ready for the 2024 ceremony!🎊 💻 Full speech: https://t.co/DhT7Yt8xzM
@NogalesLab @UCBerkeley
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The @BioExcelCoE conference in Brno - one of the best events of my science career so far!💎 Filled with inspiring speakers and discussions✨ the perfect ending was the talk by @RommieAmaro at the Brno observatory, filled with the incredible vizualisations of biosystems ⤵️🌠🌌
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Pleased to present our latest work, where we show that the cell-cell adhesion protein afadin coopts mechanically-regulated elements of the cadherin-catenin complex to drive cytoskeletal engagement. https://t.co/SAmjUOuUHc
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Should be a great meeting for cytoskeletal enthusiasts this summer!
Interested in actin, intermediate filaments and microtubules? Then this FASEB conference is for you – the only one in North America focused on the cytoskeleton with fantastic speakers. July 13-17 2025 in Southbridge MA. #cytoskeleton #FASEB #CytoskeletalStructureDynamicsFunction
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🚨 #teamtomo we can do this!!
Submit your best cell biology images or videos to the 2024 ASCB Image Contest for a chance to win a free ASCB membership! Showcase your work at Cell Bio 2024. Enter now:
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