Jessica Houston

Dr. Jessica P. Houston is a Professor of Chemical & Materials Engineering at New Mexico State University (NMSU) in Las Cruces, NM. Her research includes flow cytometry instrument optimization, fluorescence dynamics, high-throughput systems, optofluidics, and fluorescence bioprobes. Dr. Houston has been at NMSU since 2009 where she first began her career in academia as an Assistant Professor. She came to NMSU after completing a 3-year Director’s Postdoctoral Fellowship within the Bioscience Division at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM (2006-2009). Dr. Houston provides service to a variety of scientific societies, boards, and advisory councils. She is President of ISAC (International Society for the Advancement of Cytometry, 2023-2026), Chair of ISAC Executive Committee, and serves on the council and as ex-officio of all 12 ISAC committees and numerous task forces and working groups.

Additionally, Dr. Houston is Chair of the Conference on Imaging, Manipulation, and Analysis of Cells and Tissues for the SPIE Photonics West Congress. Her scientific contributions have been presented in high impact papers, proceedings, and chapters, as well as numerous conference abstracts and invited international and national symposia. She holds a patent on lifetime measurements with cytometry and as a faculty member teaches fluid mechanics, biomedical engineering, process control, and dynamics. In 2024 Dr. Houston became a Faculty Fulbright Scholar in Brazil at the University of Sao Paulo.