Shiwei Wang

Email: shiweiw, followed by @mit.edu

Shiwei completed his B.A. with Honors in Integrated Science at Northwestern University. His undergraduate research in Professor Will Dichtel’s group focused on supramolecular self-assembly of macrocycles. After graduation, he worked with Professor Yue Yang at Northwestern to study activity-dependent gene program in adult mouse cerebellum. Currently, he is a graduate student in Chemical Biology jointly advised by Professor Laura Kiessling and Professor Ed Boyden. His work focuses on developing new tools to study glycobiology in the brain.

Publications

Single-shot 20-fold expansion microscopy

Nature Methods | 2024

Wang S*, Shin TW*, Yoder HB 2nd, McMillan RB, Su H, Liu Y, Zhang C, Leung KS, Yin P, Kiessling LL**, Boyden ES** (2024) Single-shot 20-fold expansion microscopy, Nature Methods, doi:10.1038/s41592-024-02454-9. Online ahead of print. (*, equal contribution; **, co-corresponding authors)