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Viola EllisonViola Ellison

Assistant Professor

Office: Simon hall 305B

Phone: 812/ 855-8514

Email: vellison at indiana.edu

 

Education

Ph.D., Stanford University, 1994
American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow, Cold Spring Harbor, 1995-2003

Research

Human chromosome duplication and maintenance of genome integrity.


Representative Publications

Ellison, V. and Stillman. (2003) Biochemical Characterization of DNA Damage Checkpoint Complexes: Clamp Loader and Clamp Complexes with Specificity for 5' Recessed DNA. PloS , 1 (2 ) , 1-13.  

Ellison, V. and Stillman, B. (2001) Opening of the clamp: an intimate view of an ATP-driven biological machine. Cell , 106 , 655-660.

Ola, A., Waga, S., Ellison, V., Stillman, B., McGurk, M., Leigh, I.M., Waseem, N.H. and Waseem, A. (2001) Human-Saccharomyces cerevisiae proliferating cell nuclear antigen hybrids: oligomeric structure and functional characterization using in vitro DNA replication. J Biol Chem , 276 , 10168-10177.

Ellison, V. and Stillman, B. (1998) Reconstitution of recombinant human replication factor C (RFC) and identification of an RFC subcomplex possessing DNA-dependent ATPase activity. J Biol Chem , 273 , 5979-5987.