Joe Howard, PhD
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Biography
Jonathon (Joe) Howard is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, a Professor of Physics, and a member of the Quantitative Biology Institute at Yale University. He is best known for his research on the mechanical properties of motor proteins and the cytoskeleton, and the development of techniques for observing, measuring and manipulating individual biological molecules. His group studies several cellular systems in which force and motion play key roles, including the motility of cilia, and the branching of developing neurons.
Brought up in Australia, where he studied mathematics and neurobiology at the Australian National University, Professor Howard was a professor at the University of Washington Medical School in Seattle, a founding Director of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany, before moving to Yale 2013 where he enjoys new research projects and teaching.
Education & Training
- Postdoctoral FellowUniversity of California, San Francisco (1987)
- Postdoctoral FellowUniversity of Bristol (1985)
- PhDAustralian National University, Neurobiology (1983)
- BSc (Hon)Australian National University, Mathematics (1979)
Activities
- Dendrite branching morphogenesis: Dynamics and scaling lawsTitisee-Neustadt, BW, Germany 2022Invited Lecture: Space, Time, and Life, 124th Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds Titisee Conference
- Scaling laws of branching morphogenesis in neuronal dendritesBengaluru, KA, India 2020Invited Lecture: International Center for Theoretical Science
- Molecular Motors: Nature's Tiniest Protein MachinesBudapest, Hungary 2019KeyNote Lecture: Semmelweis University 250th Anniversary
- Physical Energetics of the cellBrussels, Brussels, Belgium 2017Invited Lecture: 27th Solvay Conference on Physics
Honors & Recognition
Award | Awarding Organization | Date |
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Fellow | Biophysical Society | 2016 |
External Member | Max Planck Society, Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems | 2016 |
Pioneer Award | National Institutes of Health | 2015 |
Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry | Yale University | 2013 |
Member | European Molecular Biology Organization | 2004 |
Scientific Member | Max Planck Society, Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics | 2000, 2014 |
MERIT Award | National Institute of Arthritis & Musculoskeletal & Skin Diseases | 2000 |
Fellow | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | 1996 |
Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences | Pew Charitable Trusts | 1990 |
Sloan Research Fellow | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation | 1990 |
Australian National Undergraduate Scholar | Australian National University | 1976 |
Professional Service
Organization | Role | Date |
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American Association for the Advancement of Science | Member | 2023 - 2024 |
Biophysical Journal | Associate Editor | 2022 - Present |
Organizer: Mechanobiology down under | Co-Chair | 2018 |
Physics of Life, Dresden University of Technology, Germany | Member | 2017 - 2024 |
Organizer: Microscopy at Yale | Co-Chair | 2017 |
NIH Study Section (MSFC) | MFSC Study Section, Member | 2016 - 2021 |
Mechanobiology Institute Review Panel, Singapore | Chair | 2016 |
Institute for the Physics of Living Systems, University College London, UK | Member | 2015 - 2020 |
RIKEN Advisory Council, RIKEN, Japan | 9th, 11th, 12th RAC, Member | 2013 - 2023 |
Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden, Dresden University of Technology, Germany | Scientific Advisory Board, Member | 2013 - 2019 |
RIKEN Quantitative Biology Center (QBiC), RIKEN, Japan | 9th, 11th and 12th RAC | 2013 - 2017 |
American Physical Society | Member | 2000 - 2024 |
American Society for Cell Biology | Member | 1990 - 2024 |
Biophysical Society | Member | 1988 - 2024 |