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Babak Vajdi Hokmabad

Princeton UniversityORCID 0000-0001-5075-6357Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:cell signaling & trafficking· 1 Research Focus:development & morphogenesis· 1 Organism:E. coli· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Assay:imaging· 1 Approach:microscopy & imaging analysis· 1

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Cell BiologyProceedings of the National Academy of SciencesPeer-reviewedSep 10, 2026

Naegleria amoebae seek confinement and crawl persistently through narrow spaces

Katrina Velle, Meera Ramaswamy, Babak Vajdi Hokmabad…·Lillian K. Fritz‐Laylin

This study investigates how Naegleria amoebae navigate narrow spaces and environments, finding they use bleb-based motility and exhibit memory-guided movement that may aid in pathogenesis.

DOI 10.1073/pnas.2534165123

imagingmicroscopy & imaging analysis

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BiophysicsProceedings of the National Academy of SciencesPeer-reviewedOct 6, 2025

Spatial self-organization of confined bacterial suspensions

Babak Vajdi Hokmabad, Alejandro Martínez-Calvo, Sebastian Gonzalez La Corte, Sujit Sankar Datta

This study investigates how confinement affects bacterial populations by showing that Escherichia coli in quasi-2D droplets self-organize into a core-shell structure driven by oxygen dynamics and motility.

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E. coliexperimental assay

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