Margaret Schroeder

Margaret Schroeder, while a PhD student in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences department at MIT, was a member of both the Feng and Boyden labs. Prior to MIT, she received a BSE in Bioengineering, a BS in Economics, and a Masters in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania. Her thesis research focused on characterizing the transcriptomic heterogeneity of glial cells across brain regions and developmental time points in the mammalian brain. In the Boyden lab, she worked on developing image analysis pipelines for expansion revealing (ExR) and related techniques.  After graduating, she went on to a postdoctoral position at Rockefeller.

Publications

Expansion Revealing of Pathology Resolves Nanostructures Associated with Inflammatory Phenotypes in COVID-19 Decedent Human Brain Tissue

bioRxiv | 2026

Alice E. Stanton*, Jinyoung Kang*, Joel W. Blanchard, Carles A. Boix, Margaret E. Schroeder, Youngmi Lee, Hanquan Su, Shiwei Wang, Eunah Yu, Amauche Emenari, Zhuyu Peng, Emre Agbas, Oyku Cerit, Demian Park, Ruihan Zhang, David A. Bennett, Peng Yin, Manolis Kellis, Robert Langer, Edward Boyden**, Li-Huei Tsai** (2026) Expansion Revealing of Pathology Resolves Nanostructures Associated with Inflammatory Phenotypes in COVID-19 Decedent Human Brain Tissue, bioRxiv 2026.05.14.725177; doi: https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.05.14.725177. (*, contributed equally; **, co-corresponding)

A marmoset brain cell census reveals regional specialization of cellular identities

Science Advances | 2023

Krienen FM, Levandowski KM, Zaniewski H, Del Rosario RCH, Schroeder ME, Goldman M, Wienisch M, Lutservitz A, Beja-Glasser VF, Chen C, Zhang Q, Chan KY, Li KX, Sharma J, McCormack D, Shin TW, Harrahill A, Nyase E, Mudhar G, Mauermann A, Wysoker A, Nemesh J, Kashin S, Vergara J, Chelini G, Dimidschstein J, Berretta S, Deverman BE, Boyden E, McCarroll SA, Feng G (2023) A marmoset brain cell census reveals regional specialization of cellular identities, Science Advances 9(41):eadk3986.

Revealing nanostructures in brain tissue via protein decrowding by iterative expansion microscopy

Nature Biomedical Engineering | 2022

Deblina Sarkar*, Jinyoung Kang*, Asmamaw T. Wassie*, Margaret E. Schroeder, Zhuyu Peng, Tyler B. Tarr, Ai-Hui Tang, Emily D. Niederst, Jennie Z. Young, Hanquan Su, Demian Park, Peng Yin, Li-Huei Tsai**, Thomas A. Blanpied** & Edward S. Boyden** (2022) Revealing nanostructures in brain tissue via protein decrowding by iterative expansion microscopy, Nature Biomedical Engineering 6:1057–1073. (*, contributed equally; **, co-corresponding)