Khuloud Jaqaman, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
khuloud.jaqaman@utsouthwestern.edu
Biography
Khuloud joined the Department of Biophysics at UT Southwestern Medical Center in January 2013 and is excited about building her research program and contributing to the education and training of graduate students and postdocs.
Khuloud received her Ph.D. from Indiana University Bloomington, where she did research in molecular dynamics and protein folding. She then did her postdoctoral studies with Gaudenz Danuser at the Scripps Research Institute, where she got immersed in the fascinating world of investigating protein dynamics and function in living cells.
Before coming to UTSW, she was an Instructor in the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School.
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Sungsoo Lee, Ph.D.
Lab director
sungsoo.lee@utsouthwestern.edu
Biography
Sungsoo has always been interested in how extracellular signals regulate cell behavior. He obtained his bachelor degree from the Korea University in South Korea, after which he did his PhD studies at the University of Rhode Island with Dr. Gongqin Sun, and his postdoctoral training at UT Southwestern Medical Center with Dr. Richard Anderson.
Now in the Jaqaman lab, he is taking the lead in managing the experimental branch of the lab, and will conduct research focusing on how various receptors on the cell surface assemble or disassemble to regulate intracellular signaling.
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Robel Yirdaw, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral fellow
robel.yirdaw@utsouthwestern.edu
Biography
Robel received his B.Sc. in computer science with a minor in physics from California State University, Northridge and a Ph.D. in physics from Vanderbilt University, working in the lab of Dr. Hassane Mchaourab. His dissertation research at Vanderbilt focused on the study of protein conformational dynamics by single molecule fluorescence spectroscopy.
As a member of the Jaqaman lab, Robel is developing a stochastic mathematical modeling framework to derive receptor interaction kinetics from single molecule imaging data.