Clifford Brangwynne

Clifford P. “Cliff” Brangwynne (* around 1978) is an Irish - American biophysicist at Princeton University .

Live and act

Brangwynne earned a bachelor's degree in materials science and engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2001 and a Ph.D. in 2007 from David A. Weitz at Harvard University. in applied physics . As a postdoctoral fellow he worked with Tony Hyman at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics and with Frank Jülicher at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems . He has been at Princeton University since 2011, where he holds a professorship in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering . Since 2018 Brangwynne has also been doing research for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).

Brangwynne investigates the division of cells into their compartments and the structure and function (especially gene regulation ) of cell organelles without their own membrane , including P-granules , Cajal bodies and nucleoli , along the entire ontogeny . He is known for his work, which applies the physics of soft matter and methods of molecular biology (including optogenetics ) to various intracellular phases and the phase transitions and thus helps to better understand living cells and tissue, but also influences them ( synthetic biology ).

Clifford Brangwynne attended the 27th Solvay Conference in 2017 . In 2018 he received a MacArthur Fellowship and in 2020 he was awarded the Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences and the Michael and Kate Bárány Award from the Biophysical Society . According to Google Scholar, it has an h-index of 38, according to the Scopus database it has an h-index of 35 (as of September 2020).

Web links

• Clifford Branhwynne, Ph.D. , Soft Living Matter Group working group and curriculum vitae (PDF; 201 kB; as of December 2018) at Princeton University (princeton.edu)
• Clifford P. Brangwynne at Princeton University's Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering (princeton.edu)
• Clifford P. Brangwynne and portrait at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (hhmi.org)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Annual Report 2017. (PDF; 12.9 MB) In: solvayinstitutes.be. Institut international de physique Solvay, April 17, 2018, accessed on March 22, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Clifford Brangwynne. In: macfound.org. MacArthur Foundation, October 4, 2018, accessed March 22, 2020 . 
3. ^ The 19th Annual Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences Awarded for Pioneering Studies in Cell Biology. In: wiley.com. The Wiley Foundation, accessed March 22, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Clifford P. Brangwynne to Receive 2020 Michael and Kate Bárány Award. In: biophysics.org. Biophysical Society , September 6, 2019, accessed March 22, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Cliff Brangwynne. In: scholar.google.de. Google Scholar , accessed September 1, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Brangwynne, Clifford P. In: scopus.com. Scopus , accessed September 1, 2020 .