Sara Tavana

Email: stavana, followed by @mit.edu

Sara received her B.S. in biology with a minor in chemistry from Suffolk University. Her prior research experience in the Jacks lab at MIT focused on characterizing the obstacles preventing a productive T cell response to a tumor. Currently, she is a graduate student in MIT BCS, having worked as a technical associate in the Synthetic Neurobiology group, and is interested in developing new molecular tools for the analysis and control of complex biological systems such as the brain.

Publications

Principles of in situ protein sequencing: expansion microscopy-adapted Edman degradation and amino acid recognition

bioRxiv | 2026

Mitchell CM, Tavana SZ, Peng JZ, Wang H, Shi J, Zhang C, Evgeniou L, Domecillo M, Wang S, Estandian DM, Choueiri AG, Wong E, Dohadwala S, Polizzi NF, Kiessling LL, Boyden ES (2026) Principles of in situ protein sequencing: expansion microscopy-adapted Edman degradation and amino acid recognition, bioRxiv 2026.01.29.702630; doi:https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.01.29.702630.