First or co-first author publications

Cortical column and whole-brain imaging with molecular contrast and nanoscale resolution

  • Authors : R. Gao*, S. Asano*, S. Upadhyayula*, I. Pisarev, D. E. Milkie, T-L. Liu, V. Singh, A. Graves, G. H. Huynh, Y. Zhao, J. Bogovic, J. Colonell, C. M. Ott, C. Zugates, S. Tappan, A. Rodriguez, K. R. Mosaliganti, S-H. Sheu, H. A. Pasolli, S. Pang, C. S. Xu, S. G. Megason, H. Hess, J. Lippincott-Schwartz, A. Hantman, G. M. Rubin, T. Kirchhausen, S. Saalfeld, Y. Aso, E. S. Boyden, and E. Betzig
    [* equal contribution]
  • Journal : Science
  • Year : 2019

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Expansion microscopy: Protocols for imaging proteins and RNA in cells and tissues

  • Authors : S. Asano*, R. Gao*, A. T. Wassie*, P. W. Tillberg, F. Chen, and E. S. Boyden
    [* equal contribution]
  • Journal : Current Protocols in Cell Biology
  • Year : 2018

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Q&A: expansion microscopy

  • Authors : R. Gao*, S. Asano*, and E. S. Boyden
    [* equal contribution]
  • Journal : BMC Biology
  • Year : 2017

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In Situ Cryo-Electron Tomography: A Post-Reductionist Approach to Structural Biology

  • Authors : S. Asano, B. D. Engel, and W. Baumeister
  • Journal : Journal of Molecular Biology
  • Year : 2016

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A molecular census of 26S proteasomes in intact neurons

  • Authors : S. Asano*, Y. Fukuda*, F. Beck, A. Aufderheide, R. Danev, F. Förster and W. Baumeister
    [* equal contribution]
  • Journal : Science
  • Year : 2015

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In situ structural analysis of Golgi intracisternal protein arrays

  • Authors : B. D. Engel*, M. Schaffer*, S. Albert*, S. Asano*, J. M. Plitzko, and W. Baumeister
    [* equal contribution]
  • Journal : PNAS
  • Year : 2015

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Cryo–electron tomography reveals a critical role of RIM1α in synaptic vesicle tethering

  • Authors : R. Fernandez-Busnadiego*, S. Asano*, A. Oprisoreanu, E. Sakata, M. Doengi, Z. Kochovski, M. Zürner, V. Stein, S. Schoch, W. Baumeister and V. Lucic
    [* equal contribution]
  • Journal : Journal of Cell Biology
  • Year : 2013

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Other (co-authored) publications

3D nanofabrication by volumetric deposition and controlled shrinkage of patterned scaffolds

  • Authors : D. Oran, S. G. Rodriques, R. Gao, S. Asano, M. A. Skylar-Scott, F. Chen, P. W. Tillberg, A. H. Marblestone, and E. S. Boyden
  • Journal : Science
  • Year : 2018

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A robotic multidimensional directed evolution approach applied to fluorescent voltage reporters

  • Authors : K. D. Piatkevich, E. E. Jung, C. Straub, C. Linghu, D. Park, H. Suk, D. R. Hochbaum, D. Goodwin, E. Pnevmatikakis, N. Pak, T. Kawashima, C. Yang, J. L. Rhoades, O. Shemesh, S. Asano, Y. Yoon, L. Freifeld, J. L. Saulnier, C. Riegler, F. Engert, T. Hughes, M. Drobizhev, B. Szabo, M. B. Ahrens, S. W. Flavell, B. L. Sabatini, and E. S. Boyden
  • Journal : Nature Chemical Biology
  • Year : 2018

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Light sheet theta microscopy for rapid high-resolution imaging of large biological samples

  • Authors : B. Migliori, M. S. Datta, C. Dupre, M. C. Apak, S. Asano, R. Gao, E. S. Boyden, O. Hermanson, R. Yuste, and R. Tomer
  • Journal : BMC Biology
  • Year : 2018

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Proteasomes tether to two distinct sites at the nuclear pore complex

  • Authors : S. Albert, M. Schaffer, F. Beck, S. Mosalaganti, S. Asano, H. F Thomas, J. M Plitzko, M. Beck, W. Baumeister, and B. D. Engel
  • Journal : PNAS
  • Year : 2017

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Expansion microscopy of zebrafish for neuroscience and developmental biology studies

  • Authors : L. Freifeld, I. Odstrcil, D. Förster, A. Ramirez, J. A. Gagnon, O. Randlett, E. K. Costa, S. Asano, O. T. Celiker, R. Gao, D. A. Martin-Alarcon, P. Reginato, C. Dick, L. Chen, D. Schoppik, F. Engert, H. Baier, and E. S. Boyden
  • Journal : PNAS
  • Year : 2017

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Iterative expansion microscopy

  • Authors : J-B. Chang, F. Chen, Y-G. Yoon, E. E. Jung, H. Babcock, J. S. Kang, S. Asano, H-J. Suk, N. Pak, P. W. Tillberg, A. T. Wassie, D. Cai, and E. S. Boyden
  • Journal : Nature Methods
  • Year : 2017

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Nanoscale imaging of RNA with expansion microscopy

  • Authors : F. Chen, A. T. Wassie, A. J. Cote, A. Sinha, S. Alon, S. Asano, E. R. Daugharthy, J. B. Chang, A. Marblestone, G. M. Church, A. Raj and E. S. Boyden
  • Journal : Nature Methods
  • Year : 2016

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Robust membrane detection based on tensor voting for electron tomography

  • Authors : A. Martinez-Sanchez, I. Garcia, S. Asano, V. Lucic and J.-J. Fernandez
  • Journal : Journal of Structural Biology
  • Year : 2014

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Three-dimensional architecture of actin filaments in Listeria monocytogenes comet tails

  • Authors : M. Jasnin, S. Asano, E. Gouin, R. Hegerl, J. M. Plitzko, E. Villa, P. Cossart and W. Baumeister
  • Journal : PNAS
  • Year : 2013

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Insights into the molecular organization of the neuron by cryo-electron tomography

  • Authors : R. Fernandez-Busnadiego, N. Schrod, Z. Kochovski, S. Asano, D. Vanhecke, W. Baumeister, and V. Lucic
  • Journal : Journal of Electron Microscopy
  • Year : 2011

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Cryo‐electron tomography: methodology, developments and biological applications

  • Authors : D. Vanhecke, S. Asano, Z. Kochovski, R. Fernandez-Busnadiego, N. Schrod, W. Baumeister, and V. Lucic
  • Journal : Journal of Microscopy
  • Year : 2011

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