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

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.

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)