Josh Riback

Since August 2018, Josh joined Clifford Brangwynne as a postdoc to elucidate principles of polymer biophysics that both govern the assembly of large macromolecular nucleic acid protein complexes within biological condensates and the interplay between their assembly and condensate formation in living cells. Prior to this work, he obtained a PhD in the Biophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago, co-mentoed by Drs. Tobin Sosnick and D. Allan Drummond, studying intrinsically disordered regions/proteins connecting their extent of collapse (or lack thereof) to biochemical and cellular phenomena including phase separation, protein (mis-)folding/aggregation, and cellular fitness. During his undergraduate studies, he majored in Biophysics at Johns Hopkins University (2013) and worked in Dr. Bertrand Garcia-Moreno’s lab studying the thermodynamics of buried ionizable groups within proteins. Outside of the lab, he enjoys spending time with his wife and two children.