OpticalComplex

I like to poke things with light. Currently a postdoc at CMU, making little things big and playing with lasers.

[Nature Biotechnology @NatureBiotech]

The June issue is live https://t.co/smSqBVcAwU

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 https://t.co/sVt3womkvt

[OpticalComplex @OpticalComplex]

@cardiacpolymath Thank you!

[CMU Mellon College of Science @CmuScience]

Unprecedented views of the interior of cells and other nanoscale structures are now possible thanks to innovations in expansion microscopy by @huailang's lab. https://t.co/D5qax0WyRD

[Yongxin(Leon) Zhao @huailang]

The press release: https://t.co/XZrltd66ss
And our Magnify website is up! https://t.co/3QI9xnV542
This is impossible without the heroic efforts of @OpticalComplex @GallagherCMU, the whole team and supports @CmuScience @CMU_Bio @NIH_CommonFund 🙏

[OpticalComplex @OpticalComplex]

New Year, New Paper! Congrats everyone!

[Yongxin(Leon) Zhao @huailang]

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!🔬https://t.co/Fd7LrQJXqZ

[Yongxin(Leon) Zhao @huailang]

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. https://t.co/P5KvsNvbXc

[Yongxin(Leon) Zhao @huailang]

Press release: https://t.co/aq1iktM5cS
https://t.co/MYtGpV0OIZ

[Yongxin(Leon) Zhao @huailang]

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

[OpticalComplex @OpticalComplex]

@erin_rod_phd They're pretty cool fish. And GFP rats in DC would have to be dealt with by GFP cats... https://t.co/Q6RqzJ78dZ

[OpticalComplex @OpticalComplex]

When you visit your dad and see he has a special home for a copy of your thesis 🥺

[OpticalComplex @OpticalComplex]

@huailang @CMUProvost @CmuScience @CMU_Bio @YttriLab Congrats, Leon!

[Emilia Entcheva @emilia_entcheva]

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
https://t.co/n9h3UB2GBV

[OpticalComplex @OpticalComplex]

Watching internet randos hatred for hedge funds supercede their disdain for GameStop is a sight to behold.

[OpticalComplex @OpticalComplex]

@EdK2020 @RBReich But is a hedge fund shorting 140% of the available shares?

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

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?

[OpticalComplex @OpticalComplex]

Damn, it's been a nice 24+ hours having a leader who respects science and isn't a white supremacist apologist.

[Allegheny County Health Department @HealthAllegheny]

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.

[Emilia Entcheva @emilia_entcheva]

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.

[OpticalComplex @OpticalComplex]

At this point it would be near impossible to convince me that GOP folks still supporting Trump and his stupid-coup actually give a damn about America and democracy.