Elizabeth Villa is an American biophysicist who is Associate Professor at the University of California, San Diego.
[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.
[7] This machinery includes bulky molecular complexes, which are composed of nucleic acids, carbohydrates and proteins.
[12][13] The protein includes a 14 Å structure with a pathogenic mutation that forms a right-handed double helix around left-handed tubules.