Viviana Monje
PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Assistant Professor
Research Topics
Molecular dynamics simulations; lipid membrane biophysics; lipid-protein interactions; lipid-mediated cellular mechanisms; bio-inspired membrane design
Book Chapters
- Monje-Galvan, V.; Warburton, L; Klauda, J.B. Setting-up all-atom molecular dynamics simulations to study the interactions of peripheral membrane proteins with model lipid bilayers in Methods in Molecular Biology Series. Intracellular Lipid Transport. Guillaume Drin, Ed. Springer, (2019)
- Khakbaz, P; Monje-Galvan, V.; Zhuang, X.; Klauda, J.B. Modeling Lipid Membranes in Handbook of Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology Series. Biogenesis of Fatty Acids, Lipids and Membranes. Otto Geiger, Ed. Springer, (2016)
Journal Publications
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- M. Dervishi, J. Günther, J. H. Li, H. D. Uzun, H. C. B. Hansen, T. G. Pomorski, A. T. Fuglsang, V. Monje, S. Bak, “Sterol divergence across eukaryotic kingdoms determines membrane susceptibility to saponins, a class of plant defense compounds”, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 123, e2523859123 (2026).
- O. Campbell, D. Dahhan, V. Monje, “Lipid-driven alignment and binding of p7 dimers in early oligomer assembly”, PLoS Comput. Biol. 21, e1013736 (2025).
- R. X. Ramirez, A. M. Bosch, R. Pérez, H. V. Guzman, V. Monje, “2Danalysis: A toolbox for analysis of lipid membranes and biopolymers in two-dimensional space”, Biophys. J. 124, 3966-3977 (2025).
- J. Li, S. Thomson, V. Monje, “Impact of System Size on the Biophysical Properties of Multicomponent Lipid Bilayers: A Systematic Study Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations”, J. Chem Inf. Model. 65, 12464-12474 (2025).
- I. Martínez-Flores, C. C. Carvajal, V. Monje-Galvan, “Editorial: Women in bioinformatics”, Front. Bioinform. 4, 1499514 (2024).
- A. M. Jaramillo-Granada, J. H. Li, A. F. Villarreal, O. Lozano, J. C. Ruiz-Suárez, V. Monje-Galvan, F. J. Sierra-Valdez, “Modulation of Phospholipase A<sub>2</sub> Membrane Activity by Anti-inflammatory Drugs”, Langmuir 40, 7038-7048 (2024).
- A. J. Pradhan, S. Chitkara, R. X. Ramirez, V. Monje-Galvan, Y. Sancak, G. E. Atilla-Gokcumen, “Acylation of MLKL Impacts Its Function in Necroptosis”, ACS Chemical Biology 19, 407-418 (2024).
- O. Campbell, V. Le, A. Aguirre, V. Monje-Galvan, “Realistic Membrane Modeling Using Complex Lipid Mixtures in Simulation Studies”, J. Vis. Exp. (199), e65712 (2023).
- J. H. Li, V. Monje-Galvan, “In Vitro and In Silico Studies of Antimicrobial Saponins: A Review”, Processes 11, 2856 (2023).
- O. Campbell, V. Monje-Galvan, “Lipid composition modulates interactions of p7 viroporin during membrane insertion”, J. Struct. Biol. 215, 108013 (2023).
- O. Campbell, V. Monje-Galvan, “Protein-driven membrane remodeling: Molecular perspectives from Flaviviridae infections”, Biophys. J. 122, 1890-1899 (2023).
- J. H. Li, V. Monje-Galvan, “Effect of Glycone Diversity on the Interaction of Triterpenoid Saponins and Lipid Bilayers”, ACS Appl. Bio Mater. , 2c00928 (2023).
- R. X. Ramirez, O. Campbell, A. J. Pradhan, G. E. Atilla-Gokcumen, V. Monje-Galvan, “Modeling the molecular fingerprint of protein-lipid interactions of MLKL on complex bilayers”, Front. Chem. 10, 1088058 (2023).
- J. H. Li, P. Kalyanram, S. Rozati, V. Monje-Galvan, A. Gupta, “Interaction of Cyanine-D112 with Binary Lipid Mixtures: Molecular Dynamics Simulation and Differential Scanning Calorimetry Study”, ACS Omega 7, 9765-9774 (2022).
- V. Monje-Galvan, G. A. Voth, “Molecular interactions of the M and E integral membrane proteins of SARS-CoV-2”, Faraday Discuss. 232, 49-67 (2021).
- A. Yu, A.J. Pak, P. He, V. Monje-Galvan, L. Casalino, Z. Gaieb, A.C. Dommer, R.E. Amaro, G.A. Voth, “A multiscale coarse-grained model of the SARS-CoV-2 virion”, Biophys. J. 120, 1097-1104 (2021).
- A. J. Pradhan, D. Lu, L. R. Parisi, S. C. Shen, I. A. Berhane, S. L. Galster, K. Bynum, V. Monje-Galvan, O. Gokcumen, S. R. Chemler, J. Qu, J. G. Kay, G. E. Atilla-Gokcumen, “Protein acylation by saturated very long chain fatty acids and endocytosis are involved in necroptosis”, Cell Chem. Biol. 28, 1298-+ (2021).
- V. Monje-Galvan, G.A. Voth, “Binding mechanism of the matrix domain of HIV-1 gag on lipid membranes”, eLife 9, e58621 (2020).
- V. Monje-Galvan, J. B. Klauda, “Interfacial properties of aqueous solutions of butanol isomers and cyclohexane”, Fluid Phase Equilib. 513, 112551 (2020).
- K. D. Wildermuth, V. Monje-Galvan, L. M. Warburton, J. B. Klauda, “Effect of Membrane Lipid Packing on Stable Binding of the ALPS Peptide”, J. Chem. Theory Comput. 15, 1418-1429 (2019).
- A. N. Leonard, E. Wang, V. Monje-Galvan, J. B. Klauda, “Developing and Testing of Lipid Force Fields with Applications to Modeling Cellular Membranes”, Chem. Rev. 119, 6227-6269 (2019).
- V. Monje-Galvan, J. B. Klauda, “Preferred Binding Mechanism of Osh4's Amphipathic Lipid-Packing Sensor Motif, Insights from Molecular Dynamics”, J. Phys. Chem. B 122, 9713-9723 (2018).
- V. Monje-Galvan, J. B. Klauda, “Two sterols, two bilayers: insights on membrane structure from molecular dynamics”, Mol. Simul. 43, 1179-1188 (2017).
- A. A. Novikov, A. P. Semenov, V. Monje-Galvan, V. N. Kuryakov, J. B. Klauda, M. A. Anisimov, “Dual Action of Hydrotropes at the Water/Oil Interface”, J. Phys. Chem. C 121, 16423-16431 (2017).
- V. Monje-Galvan, J. B. Klauda, “Peripheral membrane proteins: Tying the knot between experiment and computation”, Biochim. Biophys. Acta-Biomembr. 1858, 1584-1593 (2016).
- C. T. Boughter, V. Monje-Galvan, W. Im, J. B. Klauda, “Influence of Cholesterol on Phospholipid Bilayer Structure and Dynamics”, J. Phys. Chem. B 120, 11761-11772 (2016).
- V. Monje-Galvan, J. B. Klauda, “Modeling Yeast Organelle Membranes and How Lipid Diversity Influences Bilayer Properties”, Biochemistry 54, 6852-6861 (2015).
- J. C. Jeong, S. Jo, E. L. Wu, Y. F. Qi, V. Monje-Galvan, M. S. Yeom, L. Gorenstein, F. Chen, J. B. Klauda, W. Im, “ST-Analyzer: A Web-Based User Interface for Simulation Trajectory Analysis”, J. Comput. Chem. 35, 957-963 (2014).
- E. L. Wu, X. Cheng, S. Jo, H. Rui, K. C. Song, E. M. Davila-Contreras, Y. F. Qi, J. M. Lee, V. Monje-Galvan, R. M. Venable, J. B. Klauda, W. Im, “CHARMM-GUI Membrane Builder Toward Realistic Biological Membrane Simulations”, J. Comput. Chem. 35, 1997-2004 (2014).
- J. B. Klauda, V. Monje, T. Kim, W. Im, “Improving the CHARMM Force Field for Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Chains”, J. Phys. Chem. B 116, 9424-9431 (2012).