Joshua A Riback
Assistant Professor
Positions
- Assistant Professor
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Molecular and Cellular Biology
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, US
Addresses
- Baylor College of Medicine (Office)
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1 Baylor Plaza
N621
Houston, TX, 77030
United States
Education
- BA from Johns Hopkins University
- Baltimore, MD
- Biophysics
- PhD from University of Chicago
- Chicago, Illinois
- Biophysical Sciences
- Postdoctoral Fellowship at Princeton University
- Princeton, NJ
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
Professional Interests
- Composition-dependent changes of biological condensates during oncogenesis and differentiation.
- The role of biological condensates in the production, modification, and assembly of macromolecules such as RNA-protein complexes.
- Understanding the biophysics of condensates using and building on the theories from polymer physics and physical chemistry.
Selected Publications
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Datar GK†, Khabusheva E†, Anand A, Beale J, Sadek M, Chen CW, Potolitsyna E, Alcantara-Contessoto N, Liu G, De La Fuente J, Dollinger C, Guzman A, Martell A, Wohlan K, Maiti A, Short NJ, Yi SS, et al., Goodell MA*, Riback JA*. " Disparate leukemia mutations converge on nuclear phase-separated condensates " Cell. 2025 Dec 11; 188 (25) : 7118-7136.e21.
Pubmed PMID: 41192422. -
Dollinger C, Potolitsyna E, Martin AG, Anand A, Datar GK, Schmit JD, Riback JA. " Nanometer condensate organization in live cells derived from partitioning measurements " bioRxiv. 2025 Feb 27;
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Riback JA, Brangwynne CP. " Can phase separation buffer cellular noise? " Science. 2020 ; 367 : 364-365.
Pubmed PMID: 31974233. -
Riback JA, Zhu L, Ferrolino MC, Tolbert M, Mitrea DM, Sanders DW, Wei MT, Kriwacki RW, Brangwynne CP. " Composition-dependent thermodynamics of intracellular phase separation " Nature. 2020 ; 581 : 209–214.
Pubmed PMID: 32405004.
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