Visiting Theorist – Jerelle Joseph, PhD
Date: April 7-9, 2025
Assistant Professor
Princeton University
Seminars:
April 7: “Computational Approaches for Understanding and Engineering Biomolecular Condensates”
April 8: “Molecular Dynamics Simulations Demystified: Principles and Algorithms”
April 9: “Molecular Dynamics Simulations Demystified: Practical Aspects and Software”
Bio
Jerelle Joseph is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and the Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute at Princeton University. Her research focuses on understanding and engineering biomolecular condensates for biomedical and sustainability applications through the development of computer simulation approaches. Prior to joining Princeton, she completed postdoctoral research in the Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge and held a Junior Research Fellowship in Physical and Chemical Sciences at King’s College in Cambridge. Jerelle obtained a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Cambridge and an MPhil in Chemistry from the University of the West Indies, Barbados.
The Joseph research group develops state-of-the-art molecular dynamic computer simulations to examine principles governing intracellular organization with a goal to apply these rules for bioengineering, including therapeutic design and chemical synthesis. Specifically, they focus on biomolecular condensates—compartments inside living cells that lack physical membranes and are implicated in both normal and aberrant functions. Her research lies at the intersection of molecular biology, polymer chemistry, biophysics, computer science and engineering. She has made major progress on developing models for RNA and RNA-protein interactions. In her visit, she will be sharing approaches and innovations in building computationally expensive and realistic simulations of populations of interacting biological molecules.
