Khuloud Jaqaman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

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

• 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.

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

• 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)

• American Association for the Advancement of Science (2017)
• Biophysical Society (2011)
• American Society for Cell Biology (2004)