I like to poke things with light. Currently a postdoc at CMU, making little things big and playing with lasers.
Joined June 2012
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The June issue is live nature.com/nbt/volumes/41/is…
Our cover features an expansion microscopy technique developed by Klimas et al. that retains nucleic acids, proteins and lipids without the need for a separate anchoring step go.nature.com/3Iesy5L
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Unprecedented views of the interior of cells and other nanoscale structures are now possible thanks to innovations in expansion microscopy by @huailang's lab. cmu.edu/mcs/news-events/2023…
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The press release: eurekalert.org/news-releases…
And our Magnify website is up! magnify.mcs.cmu.edu/news/
This is impossible without the heroic efforts of @OpticalComplex @GallagherCMU, the whole team and supports @CmuScience @CMU_Bio @NIH_CommonFund 🙏
We kick start 2023 with Magnify @NatureBiotech, a facile Expansion Microscopy method that retains nucleic acids, proteins, and lipids! See nanoscopic details of cells and tissues with up to 15 nm resolution, even in clinical tissues and human organoids!🔬nature.com/articles/s41587-0…
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We reported a new nanofabrication method @ScienceMagazine! Our lab collaborated with Shih-Chi Chen's lab @CUHKengineering to fabricate very finely detailed objects with femtosecond light sheets and nanoparticle-laden hydrogels. A thread. science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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Press release: cmu.edu/mcs/news-events/2022…
eurekalert.org/news-releases…
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Ever wonder what would happen if tissue expansion marries Raman microscopy? Wonder no more! See how MAGNIFIERS unlock multiple new potentials on both techniques! A new door to Raman nanoscopy! Great collaboration with amazing @lixuess @TheMinLab @ChemColumbia @CMU_Bio @CmuScience
Our preprint on expansion stimulated Raman scattering microscopy (biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…) is out on Advanced Science now. Check out how expansion microscopy revitalized Raman imaging applications into the nanoscale world. @huailang @GallagherCMU @TheMinLab
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Our paper "#OptoGap" is finally out - it validates experimentally and computationally a quantitative method for electrical cell-cell coupling using #optogenetics. With Cookie Yu, @pmjboyle, @OpticalComplex, John Williams, @NTrayanova
nature.com/articles/s41598-0…
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If Redditors rallying GameStop is unacceptable market manipulation, what would you call it when greedy Wall Street bankers gambled away our entire economy in 2008 and faced no consequences?
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During Wednesday's weekly briefing, Dr. Bogen shared a graphic she thought illustrated difficultly of maintaining pods or bubbles. Thank you to @thoughtsofaphd for making the graphic and allowing us to continue to share it! Stay safe and be kind.
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Our paper in AJP-Heart. Thanks to PhD students Weizhen Li and Julie Han (Weizhen on the laptop while stuck in China, Julie on the left); project was started by @OpticalComplex. #optogenetics, all-optical #electrophysiology, WB & qPCR in small hiPSC-CM samples.
Results from Li etal "emphasize the importance of syncytial growth of hiPSC-CMs for more physiologically relevant phenotype & the power of all-optical #electrophysiology to study #cardiomyocytes in their multicellular setting"
ow.ly/gGjx50CiWWC
@gwbiomed @emilia_entcheva
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Yesterday @CDCgov updated its guidance on cloth masks to add that they can protect the wearer as well as prevent that individual from infecting others.
Our illustrated guide on face coverings offers best practices for personal protection. scientificamerican.com/artic…
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Trump's former campaign manager called their operation the Death Star.
Biden's campaign appears to have found the thermal exhaust port.
#Election2020
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QAnon believers adhere to far-right internet conspiracies steeped in antisemitism and anti-LGBTQ hate.
huffpost.com/entry/qanon-can…
The antisemitic, anti-LGBTQ conspiracies of QAnon have proven adaptable: throughout the #COVID19 pandemic, they've expanded into anti-mask and anti-vaccine territories.
What's more unsettling is that some QAnon believers are running for elected office. bit.ly/37OXRBZ
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Pennsylvania Democratic officials are privately telling Biden campaign officials that they believe final margin of victory for Biden in Pennsylvania will be 100K-200K votes when the counting is finally done
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Our essay "Courage in a climate of fear" was just published @ScienceTM
stm.sciencemag.org/content/e… @cuttingforstone
"It is essential for physicians and scientists to speak up to counter misinformation about #COVID19 amid a culture of fear."
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It's October 12 and Columbus Day isn't trending on Twitter! Did we do it?? Is he dead and gone and forgotten? 🎉🎉🎉 theoatmeal.com/comics/columb…
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"They all laughed at Christopher Columbus when he said the world was round"
Nah, they laughed because they already knew the world was round–and his math about earth's size was incorrect.
This is a #ColumbusDay thread about how so much of what we were taught about him was wrong:
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Trump To Nation: ‘Don’t Let Your Lives Be Dominated By Fear Unless It’s Related To Immigrants’ bit.ly/2SErDQQ
