Victoria L Hewitt

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Australia

Personal information

Education

Ph.D. in Chemistry, Physics and Science, Dunedin College of Education, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2005

Current position

2009- PhD in progress in Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Publications

  1. Hewitt, V. L., Heinz, E., Shingu-Vazquez, M., Qu, Y., Jelicic, B., Lo, T. L., Beilharz, T. H., Dumsday, G., Gabriel, K., Traven, A. and Lithgow, T. (2012). A model system for mitochondrial biogenesis reveals evolutionary rewiring of protein import and membrane assembly pathways. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109(49): E3358-3366.
  2. Qu, Y., Jelicic, B., Pettolino, F., Perry, A., Lo, T. L., Hewitt, V. L., Bantun, F., Beilharz, T. H., Peleg, A. Y., Lithgow, T., Djordjevic, J. T. and Traven, A. (2012). Mitochondrial sorting and assembly machinery subunit Sam37 in Candida albicans: insight into the roles of mitochondria in fitness, cell wall integrity, and virulence. Eukaryot Cell 11(4): 532-544.
  3. Alcock, F., Webb, C. T., Dolezal, P., Hewitt, V., Shingu-Vasquez, M., Likic, V. A., Traven, A. and Lithgow, T. (2012). A small Tim homohexamer in the relict mitochondrion of Cryptosporidium. Mol Biol Evol 29(1): 113-122.
  4. Hewitt, V., Alcock, F. and Lithgow, T. (2011). Minor modifications and major adaptations: The evolution of molecular machines driving mitochondrial protein import. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Biomembranes 1808(3): 947-954.