Email

Josh.Riback@bcm.edu

Positions

Assistant Professor

Molecular and Cellular Biology
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, US

Addresses

Baylor College of Medicine (Office)

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.

Websites

Selected Publications

• 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.
• Riback JA, Brangwynne CP. " Can phase separation buffer cellular noise? " Science. 2020 ; 367 : 364-365.
  Pubmed PMID: 31974233.
• Riback JA, Bowman MA, Zmyslowski AM, Knoverek CR, Jumper JM, Hinshaw JR, Kaye EB, Freed KF, Clark PL, Sosnick TR. " Innovative scattering analysis shows hydrophobic disordered proteins are expanded in water. " Science. 2017 ; 358 : 238-241.
  Pubmed PMID: 29026044.
• Riback JA, Katanski CD, Kear-Scott JL, Pilipenko EV, Rojek AE, Sosnick TR, Drummond DA. " Stress-triggered phase separation is an adaptive, evolutionarily tuned response. " Cell. 2017 ; 168 : 1028–1040.
  Pubmed PMID: 28283059.