Email:
yicui, followed by @mit.edu
Yi received his medical degree at Central South University XiangYa School of Medicine, China and his Ph.D. in Biological Engineering at Purdue University. He completed his postdoc training in single-cell systems biology at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. During his Ph.D. and postdoc research, he developed advanced nanotechnology and imaging tools to address challenging biomedical questions at the single-molecule level. In the Synthetic Neurobiology group, Yi optimized the chemistry underlying expansion microscopy, and applied it to diverse contexts in biology and medicine.