Camila Villasante

Interested in biophysics & neuronal mechanisms of anesthetics. MD, PhD from @RockefellerUniv @TriIMDPhD @WeillCornell. @WCMAnesthesia resident. I like to run.

[Camila Villasante @VillasanteCM]

Delighted to share my PhD work on the mechanics of protocadherin 15, an inner-ear protein critical for human hearing, out now in @PNASNews!

Read on to hear👂🏼more!
https://t.co/f2EyRSYJXH

[Camila Villasante @VillasanteCM]

Thank you for the support along the journey @KentsisResearch !

[Kentsis Research Group @KentsisResearch]

Go Camila Villasante MD, PhD! Onto residency @WeillCornell!

[Camila Villasante @VillasanteCM]

Huge thanks to my co-author @XYDeng97 for making this project a joy to work on! And many thanks to Jim and Joel for their guidance through this journey!

[Camila Villasante @VillasanteCM]

Delighted to share my PhD work on the mechanics of protocadherin 15, an inner-ear protein critical for human hearing, out now in @PNASNews!

Read on to hear👂🏼more!
https://t.co/f2EyRSYJXH

[Camila Villasante @VillasanteCM]

Overall, we showed that the mechanics of PCDH15 are modulated by Ca2+ and that PCDH15 has the appropriate stiffness to be part of the gating spring. The mechanics of the mutant suggest it is unable to convey adequate tension to the channels, likely the mechanism of deafness.

[Camila Villasante @VillasanteCM]

Got the day off clerkships to walk in my PhD graduation ceremony @RockefellerUniv ! Very happy to celebrate this with my friends and family

[Rockefeller University @RockefellerUniv]

Congratulations to Rockefeller’s #classof2024, here’s to your next adventure! #PhDone 🔬🍾🧬

[Camila Villasante @VillasanteCM]

@Angelative @Cytiva Wow 😍 I want one too!

[Camila Villasante @VillasanteCM]

Congrats again to @denistorrre and team 🤩

[Denis Torre @denistorrre]

Thrilled to share our work investigating the role of RNA catabolism in regulating ERV expression and stem cell potency! (1/5)

https://t.co/IP1DUX1wwC

[GuccioneLab @GuccioneLab]

Very proud of this collaboration with my close friend Ivan Marazzi and team. Spearheaded in the lab by a terrific student @denistorrre
We uncover a role for RNA catabolism in regulating euchromatic ERV expression and potency.
https://t.co/YzlixrSmnF

[Camila Villasante @VillasanteCM]

Super exciting work out now from @denistorrre et al. on embryonic transcriptomes! 🧬

[Denis Torre @denistorrre]

Excited to share our work investigating the human preimplantation embryo transcriptome by long-read sequencing! Here, we combined @PacBio IsoSeq and @Illumina RNA-Seq, finding thousands of novel isoforms and genes:
https://t.co/TPAew2hzFq 1/4

[Camila Villasante @VillasanteCM]

@KarenFlemingPhD @RockefellerUniv @TriIMDPhD @JHUArtsSciences Thank you Dr. Fleming!!

[Camila Villasante @VillasanteCM]

Last month I defended my thesis! I’m very thankful for support of Jim, my lab mates, @RockefellerUniv, and @TriIMDPhD along the way. Officially Dr. Villasante, PhD 👩🏻‍🎓

[Camila Villasante @VillasanteCM]

And they say a PhD is a marathon—so I ran the @nycmarathon before finishing my PhD to find out if that’s true. Turns out they’re both tough…and I wouldn’t have been able to do either without the support of my amazing family and friends. Thank you!!

[Camila Villasante @VillasanteCM]

I'm very excited to share some of my PhD work, out now as a preprint! Take a look below:

Nanomechanics of wild-type and mutant dimers of the tip-link protein protocadherin 15 https://t.co/cGJQ3gXcnE

[Benjamin Jackson @__btjackson]

So excited to finally get to share this with the world! Huge huge credit to my incredible co-author @paigearnold2 and mentor @lydfinley, as well as support from @GSKGradSchool @TriIMDPhD. Many more thanks and metabolism stories to come! 🥲

[Camila Villasante @VillasanteCM]

@DrVidSiva Agreed! I’m just particularly fired up about Maryland now, but really we need a nationwide mask mandate!