Erica Jung

Erica Jung, while a postdoctoral associate in the Synthetic Neurobiology group at the MIT Media Lab, worked on novel directed evolution methods and their application to the creation of better fluorescent voltage indicators. Before this appointment, she received her PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Cornell University. Her research focus at Cornell was to integrate optical, biological, and microfluidic components in miniaturized systems for novel applications in reconfigurable photonics and photobioreactors. After finishing her postdoc at MIT, she moved on to a tenure-track faculty job at U Illinois Chicago.

Publications

Nanoscale Resolution Imaging of Whole Mouse Embryos Using Expansion Microscopy

ACS Nano | 2025

Sim J, Park CE, Cho I, Min K, Eom M, Han S, Jeon H, Cho ES, Lee Y, Yun YH, Lee S, Cheon DH, Kim J, Kim M, Cho HJ, Park JW, Kumar A, Chong Y, Kang JS, Piatkevich KD, Jung EE, Kang DS, Kwon SK, Kim J, Yoon KJ, Lee JS, Kim CH, Choi M, Kim JW, Song MR, Choi HJ, Boyden ES, Yoon YG, Chang JB (2025) Nanoscale Resolution Imaging of Whole Mouse Embryos Using Expansion Microscopy, ACS Nano, doi:10.1021/acsnano.4c14791. Online ahead of print.

Rapid directed molecular evolution of fluorescent proteins in mammalian cells

Protein Science | 2021

Babakhanova S*, Jung EE*, Namikawa K*, Zhang H*, Wang Y, Subach OM, Korzhenevskiy DA, Rakitina TV, Xiao X, Wang W, Shi J, Drobizhev M, Park D, Eisenhard L, Tang H, Köster RW, Subach FV**, Boyden ES**, Piatkevich KD** (2022) Rapid directed molecular evolution of fluorescent proteins in mammalian cells, Protein Science 31(3):728-751. (*, contributed equally; **, co-corresponding)

Population imaging of neural activity in awake behaving mice

Nature | 2019

Piatkevich KD*, Bensussen S*, Tseng HA*, Shroff SN, Lopez-Huerta VG, Park D, Jung EE, Shemesh OA, Straub C, Gritton HJ, Romano MF, Costa E, Sabatini BL, Fu Z, Boyden ES**, Han X** (2019) Population imaging of neural activity in awake behaving mice, Nature 574:413–417. (* equal contribution, **, co-corresponding)

A robotic multidimensional directed evolution approach applied to fluorescent voltage reporters

Nature Chemical Biology | 2018

Piatkevich KD*, Jung EE*, Straub C, Linghu C, Park D, Suk HJ, Hochbaum DR, Goodwin D, Pnevmatikakis E, Pak N, Kawashima T, Yang CT, Rhoades JL, Shemesh O, Asano S, Yoon YG, Freifeld L, Saulnier JL, Riegler C, Engert F, Hughes T, Drobizhev M, Szabo B, Ahrens MB, Flavell SW, Sabatini BL, Boyden ES (2018) A robotic multidimensional directed evolution approach applied to fluorescent voltage reporters, Nature Chemical Biology 14(4):352-360. (*, co-first authors)

Green fluorescent genetically encoded calcium indicator based on calmodulin/M13-peptide from fungi

PLoS One | 2017

Barykina NV, Subach OM, Piatkevich KD, Jung EE, Malyshev AY, Smirnov IV, Bogorodskiy AO, Borshchevskiy VI, Varizhuk AM, Pozmogova GE, Boyden ES, Anokhin KV, Enikolopov GN, Subach FV (2017) Green fluorescent genetically encoded calcium indicator based on calmodulin/M13-peptide from fungi, PLoS One 12(8):e0183757.

Iterative expansion microscopy

Nature Methods | 2017

Chang, J.-B., Chen, F., Yoon, Y.-G., Jung, E. E., Babcock H., Kang J.-S., Asano S., Suk H.-J., Pak N., Tillberg P.W., Wassie A., Cai D., Boyden E.S. (2017) Iterative expansion microscopy, Nature Methods 14:593-599.