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Elizabeth Villa is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of California San Diego. She completed her PhD in Biophysics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and was a Fulbright Fellow. Her postdoctoral work was conducted at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Munich. Recruited to UC San Diego in 2014, she has focused her research on the structure and function of macromolecular complexes within their natural cellular environments. Her lab employs techniques such as cryo-electron microscopy and tomography to examine protein interactions and complex dynamics. Notably, Dr. Villa has been a recipient of the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award and was named a Pew Scholar in 2017. In 2021, she was selected to become a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. Her current research includes projects on the structural dynamics of the yeast nuclear pore complex and the molecular architecture of genome associations with the nuclear envelope, contributing to the understanding of nuclear biology and its challenges.
Administered by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Curricular groups include Climate-Ocean-Atmosphere (COAP), Geosciences (GEO), and Ocean Biosciences (OBP).