Shoh Asano
Shoh, while a postdoctoral associate in the Synthetic Neurobiology group of Prof. Ed Boyden at MIT Media Lab, worked on expansion microscopy extensions and application.s Before this appointment, he did his Masters and graduate studies of Biophysics at the Molecular Structural Biology group of Prof. Wolfgang Baumeister in the Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry. During that time, Shoh studied the ultrastructure inside synapses and neurons by means of electron cryo-tomography. After completing his work in the Boyden lab, he moved on to a senior scientist position at Pfizer.
Publications
Dense, Continuous Membrane Labeling and Expansion Microscopy Visualization of Ultrastructure in Tissues
bioRxiv | 2024Tay Won Shin, Hao Wang*, Chi Zhang*, Bobae An, Yangning Lu, Elizabeth Zhang, Xiaotang Lu, Emmanouil D Karagiannis, Jeong Seuk Kang, Amauche Emenari, Panagiotis Symvoulidis, Shoh Asano, Leanne Lin, Emma K Costa; IMAXT Grand Challenge Consortium; Adam H Marblestone, Narayanan Kasthuri, Li-Huei Tsai, Edward S Boyden (2024) Dense, Continuous Membrane Labeling and Expansion Microscopy Visualization of Ultrastructure in Tissues, bioRxiv 2024.03.07.583776; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.03.07.583776 (*, equal contribution)
Precision Calcium Imaging of Dense Neural Populations via a Cell-Body-Targeted Calcium Indicator
Neuron | 2020Shemesh OA*, Linghu C*, Piatkevich KD*, Goodwin D, Celiker OT, Gritton HJ, Romano MF, Gao R, Yu CJ, Tseng HA, Bensussen S, Narayan S, Yang CT, Freifeld L, Siciliano CA, Gupta I, Wang J, Pak N, Yoon YG, Ullmann JFP, Guner-Ataman B, Noamany H, Sheinkopf ZR, Park WM, Asano S, Keating AE, Trimmer JS, Reimer J, Tolias AS, Bear MF, Tye KM, Han X, Ahrens MB, Boyden ES (2020) Precision Calcium Imaging of Dense Neural Populations via a Cell-Body-Targeted Calcium Indicator, Neuron 107(3):470-486. (*, equal contribution)
Expansion Microscopy for Beginners: Visualizing Microtubules in Expanded Cultured HeLa Cells
Current Protocols in Neuroscience | 2020Zhang C*, Kang JS*, Asano SM, Gao R, Boyden ES (2020) Expansion Microscopy for Beginners: Visualizing Microtubules in Expanded Cultured HeLa Cells, Current Protocols in Neuroscience 92(1):e96. (*, contributed equally)
Expansion microscopy of C. elegans
eLife | 2020Yu CJ, Barry NC, Wassie AT, Sinha A, Bhattacharya A, Asano S, Zhang C, Chen F, Hobert O, Goodman MB, Haspel G, Boyden ES (2020) Expansion microscopy of C. elegans, eLife 9:e46249.
Expansion Microscopy of Lipid Membranes
bioRxiv | 2019Emmanouil D. Karagiannis*, Jeong Seuk Kang*, Tay Won Shin, Amauche Emenari, Shoh Asano, Leanne Lin, Emma K. Costa, IMAXT Grand Challenge Consortium, Adam H. Marblestone, Narayanan Kasthuri, Edward S. Boyden (2019) Expansion Microscopy of Lipid Membranes, bioRxiv 829903. (*, equal contribution)
Cortical column and whole-brain imaging with molecular contrast and nanoscale resolution
Science | 2019Ruixuan Gao*, Shoh M. Asano*, Srigokul Upadhyayula*, Igor Pisarev, Daniel E. Milkie, Tsung-Li Liu, Ved Singh, Austin Graves, Grace H. Huynh, Yongxin Zhao, John Bogovic, Jennifer Colonell, Carolyn M. Ott, Christopher Zugates, Susan Tappan, Alfredo Rodriguez, Kishore R. Mosaliganti, Shu-Hsien Sheu, H. Amalia Pasolli, Song Pang, C. Shan Xu, Sean G. Megason, Harald Hess, Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Adam Hantman, Gerald M. Rubin, Tom Kirchhausen, Stephan Saalfeld, Yoshinori Aso, Edward S. Boyden**, Eric Betzig** (2019) Cortical column and whole-brain imaging with molecular contrast and nanoscale resolution, Science 363(6424):eaau8302. (*, equal contribution, **, co-corresponding)
3D nanofabrication by volumetric deposition and controlled shrinkage of patterned scaffolds
Science | 2018D. Oran*, S. G. Rodriques*, R. Gao, S. Asano, M. A. Skylar-Scott, F. Chen, P. W. Tillberg, A. H. Marblestone**, E. S. Boyden** (2018) 3D nanofabrication by volumetric deposition and controlled shrinkage of patterned scaffolds, Science 362(6420):1281-1285. (*, equal contributors; **, equal contributors)
Expansion Microscopy: Protocols for Imaging Proteins and RNA in Cells and Tissues
Current Protocols in Cell Biology | 2018Asano SM*, Gao R*, Wassie AT*, Tillberg PW, Chen F, Boyden ES (2018) Expansion Microscopy: Protocols for Imaging Proteins and RNA in Cells and Tissues, Current Protocols in Cell Biology 80(1):e56. (*, co-first authors)
Light sheet theta microscopy for rapid high-resolution imaging of large biological samples
BMC Biology | 2018Migliori B, Datta MS, Dupre C, Apak MC, Asano S, Gao R, Boyden ES, Hermanson O, Yuste R, Tomer R (2018) Light sheet theta microscopy for rapid high-resolution imaging of large biological samples, BMC Biology 16(1):57.
A robotic multidimensional directed evolution approach applied to fluorescent voltage reporters
Nature Chemical Biology | 2018Piatkevich 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)
Expansion Microscopy of Zebrafish for Neuroscience and Developmental Biology Studies
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 2017Freifeld L, Odstrcil I, Förster D, Ramirez A, Gagnon JA, Randlett O, Costa EK, Asano S, Celiker OT, Gao R, Martin-Alarcon DA, Reginato P, Dick C, Chen L, Schoppik D, Engert F, Baier H, Boyden ES (2017) Expansion microscopy of zebrafish for neuroscience and developmental biology studies, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114(50):E10799-E10808.
Q&A: Expansion microscopy
BMC Biology | 2017Gao R.*, Asano S.M.*, Boyden E.S. (2017) Q&A: Expansion microscopy, BMC Biology 15:50. (*, co-first authors)
Iterative expansion microscopy
Nature Methods | 2017Chang, 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.
Nanoscale imaging of RNA with expansion microscopy
Nature Methods | 2016Chen, F.*, Wassie, A.T.*, Cote, A.J., Sinha, A., Alon, S., Asano, S., Daugharthy, E.R., Chang, J.-B., Marblestone, A., Church, G.M., Raj, A., Boyden, E.S. (2016) Nanoscale Imaging of RNA with Expansion Microscopy, Nature Methods 13(8):679-84. (*, co-first authors)