Esmeralda Isabel Villavicencio Gonzalez

Graduate Student

Email

esmeralda.villavicencio@bcm.edu

Positions

Graduate Student: Genetics & Genomics
Baylor College of Medicine

Education

BS from UCLA: 06/2020 - Los Angeles, California, United States; Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics

Professional Statement

I study the functional relationship of two protein complexes involved in SCA1: the CIC-ATXN1 and CIC-ATXN1L complexes. Despite high structural similarity and some functional overlap, only the CIC-ATXN1L complex seems to be critical for viability. I am interested in finding out why and defining the role of this complex in the brain.

Websites

Zoghbi Lab

Selected Publications

Coffin SL, Durham MA, Nitschke L, Xhako E, Brown AM, Revelli JP, Villavicencio Gonzalez E, Lin T, Handler HP, Dai Y, Trostle AJ, Wan YW, Liu Z, Sillitoe RV, Orr HT, Zoghbi HY. " Disruption of the ATXN1-CIC complex reveals the role of additional nuclear ATXN1 interactors in spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 " Neuron. 2023 Feb 15;
Pubmed PMID: 36577402.