Member Name: Shahid Khan

Title: Professor of Life Sciences
Head of Department

Qualifications: Ph.D., Yale University
B.Sc., Kings College, University of London

Phone: + 92 (42) 356 08000 Ext: 4546

Fax: + 92 (42) 356 08303

E-Mail: shahidkh@lums.edu.pk

Research Interests: Bacterial Motility & Pathogenesis, Actomyosin Motility and Intracellular Signal Transduction

Biography: Shahid Masihuddin Khan is a Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics (Yale) and did postdoctoral work at Caltech. A major part of his research career was spent at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Bronx, NY) where he was Associate, then Full Professor of Physiology & Biophysics. He was a MBL Kuffler fellow and has been an established NIH investigator for two decades. He has over 40 publications and several reviews / book chapters in leading international journals. He has served on several NIH and NSF review panels. Shahid is currently also a Senior Scientist at the Molecular Biology Consortium (Chicago, IL), a non-profit research institute developing imaging technologies in structural biology.

Courses Taught
1. BIO101 Freshman Biology
2. BIO212 Sophomore Genetics

Recent Publications: Tariq Butt, Tabish Mufti, Ahmad Humayun, Peter B Rosenthal, Sohaib Khan, Shahid Khan and Justin Molloy, 2010. Myosin motors drive long-range alignment of actin filaments. J. Biol. Chem. 285,4964-74

Shahid Khan, Jun Xie and Mubarak Shah, “Automatic Tracking of Escherichia Coli In Phase-Contrast Microscopy Video”, 2009. IEEE Trans. Biomed. Engin. 56:390-99

Shahid Khan, Asim Karim and Shaheryar Iqbal, “Helicobacter urease: Niche construction at the single molecule level”, 2009. J. Biosci. 34:503-11Khan, S., Jain, S., Reid, G.P., and D.R. Trentham 2004. The fast tumble signal in bacterial chemotaxis. Biophys. J. 86, 4049-58.

Shahid Khan, Mark A. DePristo, Lynne Chang, Ronald D. Vale and Karen Lipkowa, “Introducing simulated cellular architecture to the quantitative analysis of fluorescent microscopy”, 2009. Prog. Biophys. Mol. Biol.100:25-32