Physics of Cell Motility, Sensing, and Mechanics

People

	Brian Camley (with Felix) Assistant Professor, JHU Physics & Astronomy and Biophysics Postdoc at UCSD 2012-2017 PhD, UCSB Physics 2012
	Emiliano Perez Ipiña [google scholar page] Working on collective chemotaxis with limited positional information, inferring laws of motion from cell motility data, and other projects. Emiliano is a postdoc in the group; he received his PhD from Buenos Aires University.
	Yongtian Luo [google scholar page] Working on contact inhibition of locomotion in nanofiber geometries. Yongtian is a postdoc in the group; he received his PhD from the University of Washington.
	Ifunanya (Ify) Nwogbaga Understanding how spontaneous cell turning and cell polarity reversal under a signal are related. Ify is a graduate student in the Program in Molecular Biophysics. Ify earned his PhD in May 2024. His undergraduate degree is in Chemical Engineering from Princeton.
	Pedrom Zadeh Working on statistical models and image analysis to infer the rules of branching morphogenesis from data from the Ewald group. Pedrom is a graduate student from JHU Physics and Astronomy. His undergraduate degree is in Physics from University of Virginia.
	Indy Badvaram Working on models of curvature sensing in fluctuating membranes. Indy is a graduate student from JHU Biophysics through the Jenkins program.
	Kurmanbek Kaiyrbekov Modeling collective cell motility on topographically patterned substrates with topological defects. Kurmanbek is a graduate student from JHU Physics and Astronomy.
	Wei Wang Modeling rupture events in collective cell invasion. Wei is a graduate student from JHU Physics and Astronomy.
	Mariia Kryvoruchko Modeling stochasticity in cell polarity. Mariia is a graduate student from JHU Biophysics through the Jenkins program
	Daiyue Sun Developing models of galvanotaxis coupling cell polarity and shape. Daiyue is a graduate student from JHU Physics and Astronomy
	Grace Luettgen Developing models of chemorepulsion and endocytosis. Grace is an undergraduate double-majoring in Physics and Biophysics. Grace won the Goldwater Fellowship!
	Vishnu Srinivasan Developing models of adaptation in chemotaxis. Vishnu is an undergraduate Physics major.

Group Alumni

	Melissa Mai [google scholar page] Studied the transition between swimming and crawling in cell motility with minimal hydrodynamic models. JHU Biophysics and Mathematics undergraduate. [Link to her paper in Soft Matter] Congratulations to Melissa on her Hertz Fellowship and NSF GRFP!. Currently in Harvard's Biophysics PhD program
	Austin Hopkins [google scholar page] Models of collective chemotaxis with leaders and followers [paper] and chemotaxis with multiple receptor types [paper]. Graduated from JHU Physics & Astronomy Spring 2018 and spent a year as a research assistant in the group. Currently a graduate student at UCSB Physics
	Amit Singh, PhD [google scholar page] Working on how polarity proteins can cooperate to sense a cell's shape. PhD in Mechanical Engineering, UCLA, 2018. Currently Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, BITS Pilani
	Travis Leadbetter Constructing energy landscape models of cell polarity and curvature sensing. Travis majored in Physics and Mathematics and is currently a graduate student at UPenn in Applied Math.
	Daniel Swartz [google scholar page] Theory of active gels and heavy tails. Daniel majored in Physics and Applied Math and is currently a graduate student at MIT in Physics. See our paper:Swartz and Camley 2021
	Kyle Sullivan[google scholar page] Models of collective cell migration on topographic substrates. Kyle majored in Physics and is currently a graduate student at UMass Amherst Physics.
	Annie (A Hyun) Kim Studied limits of galvanotaxis. Annie majored in Biophysics and Mathematics at JHU and is currently a graduate student at the Joint Carnegie Mellon-University of Pittsburgh Ph.D. Program in Computational Biology.
	Aparajita Kashyap [google scholar page] Modeling concentration sensing in a dynamic environment. Apara majored in Biophysics at JHU, and is currently a graduate student at Columbia's Biomedical Informatics program.
	Chris Anchan Studying the dynamics of organoid branching driven by heterogeneous signaling. Chris is an undergraduate student in Biophysics.