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2026.04.22<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udd2c Excited to share our new Nature Reviews Methods Primers paper on Expansion Microscopy!
\nExpansion microscopy turns 11 this year \u2014 and what a decade it’s been. From a single landmark paper in 2015 to nearly 1000 publications spanning neuroscience, pathology, infectious disease, and beyond, ExM has fundamentally changed how we visualize biology at the nanoscale.
\nThis Primer, co-authored with Ha Vo<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, Rong Xu, and Ed Boyden<\/strong><\/span><\/a> \u2014 the pioneer who invented ExM \u2014 is our attempt to capture where the field stands and where it’s going.<\/p>\n

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2024.04.02<\/p>\n

Sharey successfully defended her dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Cheng!<\/p>\n

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2023.09.01<\/p>\n

Our MicroMagnify paper is now online in Advanced Science<\/em><\/a> and has been selected as the Editors’ Choice. Congratulations, team!<\/p>\n

2023.06.25<\/p>\n

Our Magnify paper @NatureBiotech<\/a>, is featured in the June 2023 issue!<\/span><\/p>\n

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2023.05.22<\/p>\n

Brendan successfully defended his dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Gallagher!<\/p>\n

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2023.01.03<\/p>\n

We kick start 2023 with Magnify\u00a0@NatureBiotech<\/a><\/span>, a facile Expansion Microscopy method that retains nucleic acids, proteins, and lipids! See nanoscopic details of cells and tissues with up to 15 nm resolution, even in clinical tissues and human organoids! See the paper here,<\/a> and the press release here<\/a>. The work was covered by the first issue of Nature Reviews BioEngineering<\/em><\/a>!<\/p>\n

2022.12.23<\/p>\n

We reported a new nanofabrication method\u00a0<\/span>@ScienceMagazine<\/a><\/span>! Our lab collaborated with Shih-Chi Chen’s lab <\/span>@CUHKengineering\u00a0<\/a><\/span> to fabricate very finely detailed objects with femtosecond light sheets and nanoparticle-laden hydrogels. See the full paper here<\/a>, and the news here<\/a>. A behind-the-scenes story was covered by ScienceNet.cn<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

2022.05.06<\/p>\n

Our MAGNIFIER paper is now online in Advanced Science<\/em><\/a>! See the news here<\/a> and here (in Chinese)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2022.04.20<\/p>\n

James won Emerald Cloud Lab’s Automation Challenge 2022! Aramchan won the CMU’s Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship! Congratulations, folks!<\/p>\n

2022.04.18<\/p>\n

Leon is named the recipient of the Eberly Family Career Development Chair!<\/p>\n

2022.03.10<\/p>\n

Song Hee won the NASA Summer Internship. Way to go, Song Hee!<\/p>\n

2022.03.02<\/p>\n

Emma and Brendan won GuSH Funding for Spring 2022! Congratulations!<\/p>\n

2022.01.01<\/p>\n

Song Hee Lee and Aramchan Lee are joining us as undergraduate researchers. Welcome, Song Hee and Aramchan!<\/p>\n

2021.12.31<\/p>\n

Our work MAGNIFIER for super-resolution vibrational imaging on biospecimens has been posted on biorxiv<\/a>!<\/p>\n

2021.12.15<\/p>\n

Zhao lab and Barth lab received a $300,000 New Initiative Grant from the Charles E. Kaufman Foundation<\/a>!<\/p>\n

2021.09.01<\/p>\n

Our work MAGNIFY, the next generation of Expansion Microscopy, has been posted on Research Square<\/a>!<\/p>\n

And, Leon has a new title: Eberly Family Associate Professor of Biological Sciences!<\/p>\n

2021.04.05<\/p>\n

Our review paper titled “Expansion microscopy: A powerful nanoscale imaging tool for neuroscientists”<\/a>\u00a0is now published in Neurobiology of Disease!<\/p>\n

2020.07.06<\/p>\n

Our perspective paper titled “Expansion Microscopy: Toward Nanoscale Imaging of a Diverse Range of Biomolecules”<\/a>\u00a0is published in ACS Nano<\/strong><\/em> today. Congratulations, Aleks!<\/p>\n

2020.04.01<\/p>\n

Our paper on Expansion Pathology & its new rapid version is out\u00a0<\/span>@NatureProtocols<\/a><\/span>! Human specimens may be expanded and imaged beyond diffraction limit w\/ < 8 hours. Congratulations, Team!<\/span><\/p>\n

2020.01.13<\/p>\n

Congratulations to Brendan and Sharey for passing their candidacy exams!<\/p>\n

2019.11.20<\/p>\n

Ryan will be joining us as a rotation student to work on the artificial virus project. Welcome, Ryan!<\/p>\n

2019.08.27<\/p>\n

Aya Nour will be joining us as a rotation student! Aya will be learning nanoscale imaging of neuronal systems. Welcome, Aya!<\/p>\n

2019.06.13<\/p>\n

Just announced!<\/a> Our lab, through a grant from the Gates Foundation, is collaborating with Benaroya Research Institute and Immersive Science to combine expansion microscopy and virtual reality software to study infectious disease. The intuitive nature of viewing data in three dimensions\u00a0will accelerate researchers\u2019 understanding of infectious and autoimmune diseases and enhance their ability to develop disease diagnostics and prevention and treatment methods.<\/p>\n

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2019.05.02<\/p>\n

Our group size doubles! Welcome to Brendan Gallagher, ZhangYu (Sharey) Cheng, Yuhong (James) Wang, and Christopher Ahn!
\nBrendan and Sharey are from the Department of Biological Sciences at CMU. Brendan will work on nanoscale imaging of neuronal systems, and Sharey will explore new ways to see microbes and infected tissues.
\nJames is in the UPitt-CMU <\/span>Molecular Biophysics & Structural Biology Program. James will try to teach viral proteins some new tricks.
\n<\/span>Christopher is a Master’s student in the Computational Biology program at CMU. He will apply machine learning to make sense of massive data of Expansion Microscopy.<\/p>\n

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2018.12.25<\/p>\n

Our most comprehensive review<\/a> on Expansion Microscopy in Nature Methods<\/em> is out.<\/p>\n

2018.10.02<\/p>\n

The first major grant! Leon\u00a0received the $1.5M\u00a0NIH Director’s New Innovator Award<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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