PhD in Biochemistry, UCSF 2012

BS in Biology, UNC-CH 2007

jessica.polka at gmail.com

Publications

• Chen AH, Robinson-Mosher A, Savage DF, Silver PA, Polka JK (2013) The Bacterial Carbon-Fixing Organelle Is Formed by Shell Envelopment of Preassembled Cargo. PLoS ONE 8(9): e76127. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0076127
• Rivera CR, Kollman JM, Polka JK, Agard DA, Mullins RD. Architecture and assembly of a divergent member of the ParM family of bacterial actin like proteins. J Biol Chem. 2011 April 22; 286:14282-14290.
• Kollman JM, Polka JK, Zelter A, Davis TN, Agard DA. Microtubule nucleating γTuSC assembles structures with 13-fold microtubule-like symmetry. Nature. 2010 August 12; 466:879-883.
• Polka JK, Kollman JM, Agard DA, Mullins RD. The structure and assembly dynamics of plasmid actin AlfA imply a novel mechanism of DNA segregation. J Bacteriol. 2009 Oct;191(20):6219-30.
• Ciferri C, Pasqualato S, Screpanti E, Varetti G, Santaguida S, Dos Reis G, Maiolica A, Polka J, De Luca JG, De Wulf P, Salek M, Rappsilber J, Moores CA, Salmon ED, Musacchio A. Implications for kinetochore-microtubule attachment from the structure of an engineered Ndc80 complex. Cell. 2008 May 2;133(3):427-39