
Khuloud Jaqaman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Endowed Title Deborah and W.A. "Tex" Moncrief, Jr. Scholar in Medical Research
Department Biophysics | Lyda Hill Department of Bioinformatics
Graduate Programs Biomedical Engineering, Cell and Molecular Biology, Molecular Biophysics
Biography
Education and Training:
B. Sc. (summa cum laude), Physics, Birzeit University, 1994-1998
Ph. D., Biophysics, Indiana University Bloomington, 1998-2003
Postdoctoral fellow, Cell Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, 2003-2009
Previous Positions:
Instructor, Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, 2009-2012
Research Interest
- Biology: Spatiotemporal organization of signaling proteins in the plasma membrane; mechanics-signaling cross-talk.
- Technology: High- and super-resolution microscopy; computer vision; stochastic mathematical modeling.
Publications
Featured Publications
- Heterogeneity in VEGF Receptor-2 Mobility and Organization on the Endothelial Cell Surface Leads to Diverse Models of Activation by VEGF.
- da Rocha-Azevedo B, Lee S, Dasgupta A, Vega AR, de Oliveira LR, Kim T, Kittisopikul M, Malik ZA, Jaqaman K, Cell Rep 2020 Sep 32 13 108187
- FISIK: Framework for the Inference of In Situ Interaction Kinetics from Single-Molecule Imaging Data.
- de Oliveira LR, Jaqaman K, Biophys J 2019 09 117 6 1012-1028
- A composition-dependent molecular clutch between T cell signaling condensates and actin.
- Ditlev JA, Vega AR, Köster DV, Su X, Tani T, Lakoduk AM, Vale RD, Mayor S, Jaqaman K, Rosen MK, Elife 2019 Jul 8
- Multistep Track Segmentation and Motion Classification for Transient Mobility Analysis.
- Vega AR, Freeman SA, Grinstein S, Jaqaman K Biophys. J. 2018 Mar 114 5 1018-1025
- Adaptive Multi-Orientation Resolution Analysis of Complex Filamentous Network Images.
- Kittisopikul M, Vahabikashi A, Shimi T, Goldman RD, Jaqaman K, Bioinformatics 2020 Jul
- Stabilization of Endothelial Receptor Arrays by a Polarized Spectrin Cytoskeleton Facilitates Rolling and Adhesion of Leukocytes.
- Mylvaganam S, Riedl M, Vega A, Collins RF, Jaqaman K, Grinstein S, Freeman SA, Cell Rep 2020 Jun 31 12 107798
- Kinesin-dependent transport of keratin filaments: a unified mechanism for intermediate filament transport.
- Robert A, Tian P, Adam SA, Kittisopikul M, Jaqaman K, Goldman RD, Gelfand VI FASEB J. 2018 Jun fj201800604R
- Transmembrane Pickets Connect Cyto- and Pericellular Skeletons Forming Barriers to Receptor Engagement.
- Freeman SA, Vega A, Riedl M, Collins RF, Ostrowski PP, Woods EC, Bertozzi CR, Tammi MI, Lidke DS, Johnson P, Mayor S, Jaqaman K, Grinstein S Cell 2018 Jan 172 1-2 305-317.e10
- Piecewise-Stationary Motion Modeling and Iterative Smoothing to Track Heterogeneous Particle Motions in Dense Environments
- Roudot P, Ding L, Jaqaman K, Kervrann C, Danuser G IEEE Transactions on Image Processing 2017 26 5395-5410
- Ligand-induced growth and compaction of CD36 nanoclusters enriched in Fyn induces Fyn signaling.
- Githaka JM, Vega AR, Baird MA, Davidson MW, Jaqaman K, Touret N J. Cell. Sci. 2016 Sep
Honors & Awards
- Maximizing Investigator's Research Award
(2016-2021) - Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas Scholar
(2013-2017) - Deborah and W. A. Tex Moncrief, Jr. Endowed Scholar in Medical Research
(2013) - Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellow
(2005-2008) - Richard Slagle Fellow, Indiana University Bloomington
(2001-2002) - Valedictorian, Graduation commencement, Birzeit University
(1998)
Professional Associations/Affiliations
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (2017)
- Biophysical Society (2011)
- American Society for Cell Biology (2004)