Yi Cui

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.

Publications

Expansion microscopy using a single anchor molecule for high-yield multiplexed imaging of proteins and RNAs

PLoS One | 2023

Cui Y*, Yang G*, Goodwin DR, O'Flanagan CH, Sinha A, Zhang C, Kitko KE, Shin TW, Park D, Aparicio S; CRUK IMAXT Grand Challenge Consortium; Boyden ES (2023) Expansion microscopy using a single anchor molecule for high-yield multiplexed imaging of proteins and RNAs, PLoS One 18(9):e0291506. (*, contributed equally)

Expansion Sequencing: Spatially Precise In Situ Transcriptomics in Intact Biological Systems

Science | 2021

Alon S*, Goodwin DR*, Sinha A*, Wassie AT*, Chen F*, Daugharthy ER**, Bando Y, Kajita A, Xue AG, Marrett K, Prior R, Cui Y, Payne AC, Yao CC, Suk HJ, Wang R, Yu CJ, Tillberg P, Reginato P, Pak N, Liu S, Punthambaker S, Iyer EPR, Kohman RE, Miller JA, Lein ES, Lako A, Cullen N, Rodig S, Helvie K, Abravanel DL, Wagle N, Johnson BE, Klughammer J, Slyper M, Waldman J, Jané-Valbuena J, Rozenblatt-Rosen O, Regev A; IMAXT Consortium, Church GM***+, Marblestone AH***, Boyden ES***+ (2021) Expansion Sequencing: Spatially Precise In Situ Transcriptomics in Intact Biological Systems, Science 371(6528):eaax2656. (* equal contribution, ** key contributions to early stages of project, *** equal contribution, +co-corresponding authors)