Cell scientists to watch – Jordan Beach and Patrick Oakes

Abstract

ABSTRACT Jordan Beach received his Bachelor's degree from Mount Union University, Alliance, Ohio, before joining the laboratory of Thomas Egelhoff at Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio for his PhD. He moved to the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland for his postdoctoral training with John Hammer to use high-resolution imaging to explore myosin II assembly dynamics with the aid of a Lenfant Biomedical Research Fellowship and K22 Career Transition Award. In 2017, Jordan became an Assistant Professor at the Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology at Loyola University Chicago, USA. Patrick Oakes received his Bachelor's degree from Boston College, and his PhD in Physics from Brown University in the laboratory of Jay Tang. He did his postdoctoral work with Margaret Gardel at the Institute for Biophysical Dynamics and the James Franck Institute at the University of Chicago studying how cells sense and generate forces. In 2016 he started his own lab as an Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Rochester, and in 2019 moved to the Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology at Loyola University Chicago, USA. In 2022 he was promoted to Associate Professor.