Kristina Kitko

Kristina received her B.E. in Mechanical Engineering, her M.S. in Interdisciplinary Materials Science, and her Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Materials Science from Vanderbilt University. During her graduate work in the Zhang lab, she developed and applied nanomaterials to study membrane-related signaling processes, focusing on new methods to study synaptic transmission using graphene and quantum dots. In 2018, she was a visiting student in the Calipari lab at Vanderbilt University, where she used an array of in vivo techniques to study the role of valence during learning in rodent behavioral models. As a postdoctoral associate in the Synthetic Neurobiology group, she was interested in understanding the brain-wide modulation of neural circuits that mediate complex social behavior.

Publications

Expansion microscopy using a single anchor molecule for high-yield multiplexed imaging of proteins and RNAs

PLoS One | 2023

Cui Y*, Yang G*, Goodwin DR, O'Flanagan CH, Sinha A, Zhang C, Kitko KE, Shin TW, Park D, Aparicio S; CRUK IMAXT Grand Challenge Consortium; Boyden ES (2023) Expansion microscopy using a single anchor molecule for high-yield multiplexed imaging of proteins and RNAs, PLoS One 18(9):e0291506. (*, contributed equally)