The Jenkins Biophysics department is delighted to announce that Brian Camley had been promoted to Associate Professor!  Brian joined the department along with the Department of Physics and Astronomy in 2018, following a postdoc with Wouter-Jan Rappel and Herbie Levine at UCSD/Rice, and graduate training with Frank Brown at UCSB.  Brian’s research is at the forefront of how cells interact with their environments, connecting structures at the molecular scale to larger scales including cells and environmental structures.  Brian has elucidated mechanisms by which cells interact with electric fields, sense curvature, and interact with their own footprints.  Although Brian’s primary tools are theory and simulation, he has established productive collaborations at Johns Hopkins and beyond.  

Brian has been highly successful establishing his research program, receiving an NSF CAREER award and NIH R35 funding.  He has been instrumental in the Jenkins graduate program, and has been active in teaching at the undergraduate level, developing a new course entitled “Physics of Cell Biology: from Mechanism to Information”, as well as courses in statistical thermodynamics and biological physics.  We are very fortunate to having Brian in our Biophysics community and are looking forward to more great science, scholarship, and pedagogy.  Congratulations Brian!