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; mathematical modeling.

Featured Publications

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

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

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

Changes in single-molecule integrin dynamics linked to local cellular behavior.

Jaqaman K, Galbraith JA, Davidson MW, Galbraith CG Mol. Biol. Cell 2016 Mar

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

Structural Organization of Nuclear Lamins A, C, B1 and B2 Revealed by Super-Resolution Microscopy.

Shimi T, Kittisopikul M, Tran J, Goldman AE, Adam SA, Zheng Y, Jaqaman K, Goldman RD Mol. Biol. Cell 2015 Aug

S. cerevisiae Chromosomes Biorient via Gradual Resolution of Syntely between S Phase and Anaphase.

Marco E, Dorn JF, Hsu PH, Jaqaman K, Sorger PK, Danuser G Cell 2013 Aug 154 5 1127-39

Regulation from within: the cytoskeleton in transmembrane signaling.

Jaqaman K, Grinstein S Trends Cell Biol. 2012 Oct 22 10 515-26

Cytoskeletal control of CD36 diffusion promotes its receptor and signaling function.

Jaqaman K, Kuwata H, Touret N, Collins R, Trimble WS, Danuser G, Grinstein S Cell 2011 Aug 146 4 593-606

Kinetochore alignment within the metaphase plate is regulated by centromere stiffness and microtubule depolymerases.

Jaqaman K, King EM, Amaro AC, Winter JR, Dorn JF, Elliott HL, McHedlishvili N, McClelland SE, Porter IM, Posch M, Toso A, Danuser G, McAinsh AD, Meraldi P, Swedlow JR J. Cell Biol. 2010 Mar 188 5 665-79

• 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)