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College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Neuroscience Program

Xiaotang Lu

Assistant Professor

Additional Campus Affiliations

Assistant Professor, Chemistry
Affiliate, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

Recent Publications

IMAXT Grand Challenge Consortium (2025). Dense, continuous membrane labeling and expansion microscopy visualization of ultrastructure in tissues. Nature communications, 16(1), Article 1579. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56641-z

Han, X., Lu, X., Li, P. H., Wang, S., Schalek, R., Meirovitch, Y., Lin, Z., Adhinarta, J., Murray, K. D., MacNiven, L. M., Berger, D. R., Wu, Y., Fang, T., Meral, E. S., Asraf, S., Ploegh, H., Pfister, H., Wei, D., Jain, V., ... Lichtman, J. W. (2024). Multiplexed volumetric CLEM enabled by scFvs provides insights into the cytology of cerebellar cortex. Nature communications, 15(1), Article 6648. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-50411-z

Bidel, F., Meirovitch, Y., Schalek, R. L., Lu, X., Pavarino, E. C., Yang, F., Peleg, A., Wu, Y., Shomrat, T., Berger, D. R., Shaked, A., Lichtman, J. W., & Hochner, B. (2023). Connectomics of the Octopus vulgaris vertical lobe provides insight into conserved and novel principles of a memory acquisition network. eLife, 12. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.84257

Lu, X., Han, X., Meirovitch, Y., Sjöstedt, E., Schalek, R. L., & Lichtman, J. W. (2023). Preserving extracellular space for high-quality optical and ultrastructural studies of whole mammalian brains. Cell Reports Methods, 3(7), Article 100520. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crmeth.2023.100520

Pavarino, E. C., Yang, E., Dhanyasi, N., Wang, M. D., Bidel, F., Lu, X., Yang, F., Francisco Park, C., Bangalore Renuka, M., Drescher, B., Samuel, A. D. T., Hochner, B., Katz, P. S., Zhen, M., Lichtman, J. W., & Meirovitch, Y. (2023). mEMbrain: an interactive deep learning MATLAB tool for connectomic segmentation on commodity desktops. Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 17, Article 952921. https://doi.org/10.3389/fncir.2023.952921

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