Jerelle A. Joseph is a computational chemist and academic from

Dominica Dominica ( or ; Kalinago: ; french: Dominique; Dominican Creole French: ), officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is an island country in the Caribbean. The capital, Roseau, is located on the western side of the island. It is geographically ...

, who is also an advocate for representation and diversity in science. She is the founder of CariScholar, a network connecting students and academics from Caribbean countries.

Biography

Joseph grew up in the village of

Vieille Case Vieille Case, sometimes spelled as Vielle-Case, is a village on the north coast of Dominica. The Commonwealth of Dominica in the West Indies was first inhabited by the Kalinago tribe referred to by the Europeans as Caribs. Itassi (pronounced: e-t ...

in Dominica. Her mother was a nurse and her father worked a variety of jobs. She graduated in 2012 with a BSc in Chemistry and mathematics from the

University of the West Indies The University of the West Indies (UWI), originally University College of the West Indies, is a public university system established to serve the higher education needs of the residents of 17 English-speaking countries and territories in th ...

. This was followed by an MPhil in Chemistry at the same institution, graduating in 2014. She subsequently graduated with a DPhil in Chemistry from the

University of Cambridge , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

in 2018. She subsequently continued her work at Cambridge in a post-doctoral role in the team of Rosana Collepardo-Guevara. In January 2023 she was appointed Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...

. She works on the development of computational approaches to determine cellular organisation, in particular liquid-liquid phase separation. Joseph is the founder of CariScholar, an organisation designed to connect students and academics from the Caribbean for mentoring. Mentors include pscyhopharmocologist Kito Barrow, physician Mondel George, engineer Asher Williams, machine learning scientist Randall Martyr, amongst others.

Awards

* Outstanding Youth in Diaspora Award - National Youth Council Dominica (2022) * Rising Star in Soft and Biological Matter - University of Chicago (2020) * Bill Gates Sr Award - Gates Cambridge Trust (2018) * Gates Cambridge Scholarship - Gates Cambridge Trust (2014) * R. L. Seale Chemistry Prize - University of the West Indies (2012) * Faculty of Arts and Science Scholarship - Government of Dominica (2009)

Publications

* Joseph, J. A., Espinosa, J. R., Sanchez-Burgos, I., Garaizar, A., Frenkel, D., & Collepardo-Guevara, R. (2021). Thermodynamics and kinetics of phase separation of protein-RNA mixtures by a minimal model. ''Biophysical Journal'', ''120''(7), 1219-1230. * Joseph, J. A., Reinhardt, A., Aguirre, A., Chew, P. Y., Russell, K. O., Espinosa, J. R., ... & Collepardo-Guevara, R. (2021). Physics-driven coarse-grained model for biomolecular phase separation with near-quantitative accuracy. ''Nature Computational Science'', ''1''(11), 732-743. * Krainer, G., Welsh, T. J., Joseph, J. A., Espinosa, J. R., Wittmann, S., de Csilléry, E., ... & Knowles, T. P. (2021). Reentrant liquid condensate phase of proteins is stabilized by hydrophobic and non-ionic interactions. ''Nature communications'', ''12''(1), 1-14. * Espinosa, J. R., Joseph, J. A., Sanchez-Burgos, I., Garaizar, A., Frenkel, D., & Collepardo-Guevara, R. (2020). Liquid network connectivity regulates the stability and composition of biomolecular condensates with many components. ''Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences'', ''117''(24), 13238-13247. * Sanchez-Burgos, I., Espinosa, J. R., Joseph, J. A., & Collepardo-Guevara, R. (2021). Valency and binding affinity variations can regulate the multilayered organization of protein condensates with many components. ''Biomolecules'', ''11''(2), 278.

References

External links

CariScholar

Dr Jerelle A. Joseph - How cells form compartments without walls
(lecture)
Over The Bridge - Episode 87 - Connecting Caribbean Minds with Dr Jerelle Joseph
(podcast)
Interview - UN Women
{{DEFAULTSORT:Joseph, Jerelle Living people Year of birth missing (living people) University of the West Indies alumni Alumni of the University of Cambridge Princeton University faculty Women biochemists Dominica women scientists 21st-century women scientists 21st-century biologists 21st-century chemists Dominica emigrants to the United States People from Saint Andrew Parish, Dominica Computational chemists