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Yongxin Zhao

Carnegie Mellon Univeristy
Verified email at andrew.cmu.edu
Cited by 5977

An Expanded Palette of Genetically Encoded Ca2+ Indicators

Y Zhao, S Araki, J Wu, T Teramoto, YF Chang… - Science, 2011 - science.org
Engineered fluorescent protein (FP) chimeras that modulate their fluorescence in response
to changes in calcium ion (Ca 2+ ) concentration are powerful tools for visualizing …

All-optical electrophysiology in mammalian neurons using engineered microbial rhodopsins

DR Hochbaum, Y Zhao, SL Farhi, N Klapoetke… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
All-optical electrophysiology—spatially resolved simultaneous optical perturbation and
measurement of membrane voltage—would open new vistas in neuroscience research. We …

Pollutant emissions and energy efficiency under controlled conditions for household biomass cookstoves and implications for metrics useful in setting international test …

J Jetter, Y Zhao, KR Smith, B Khan… - … science & technology, 2012 - ACS Publications
Realistic metrics and methods for testing household biomass cookstoves are required to
develop standards needed by international policy makers, donors, and investors. Application of …

Protein-retention expansion microscopy of cells and tissues labeled using standard fluorescent proteins and antibodies

PW Tillberg, F Chen, KD Piatkevich, Y Zhao… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Expansion microscopy (ExM) enables imaging of preserved specimens with nanoscale
precision on diffraction-limited instead of specialized super-resolution microscopes. ExM works …

Expansion microscopy: principles and uses in biological research

AT Wassie, Y Zhao, ES Boyden - Nature methods, 2019 - nature.com
Many biological investigations require 3D imaging of cells or tissues with nanoscale spatial
resolution. We recently discovered that preserved biological specimens can be physically …

Mitochondria regulation in ferroptosis

H Wang, C Liu, Y Zhao, G Gao - European journal of cell biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Ferroptosis is recognized as a new form of regulated cell death which is initiated by severe
lipid peroxidation relying on reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation and iron overload. …

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

…, TL Liu, V Singh, A Graves, GH Huynh, Y Zhao… - Science, 2019 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Neural circuits across the brain are composed of structures spanning seven
orders of magnitude in size that are assembled from thousands of distinct protein types. …

Voltage imaging and optogenetics reveal behaviour-dependent changes in hippocampal dynamics

Y Adam, JJ Kim, S Lou, Y Zhao, ME Xie, D Brinks… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
A technology that simultaneously records membrane potential from multiple neurons in
behaving animals will have a transformative effect on neuroscience research 1 , 2 . Genetically …

Improved Orange and Red Ca2+ Indicators and Photophysical Considerations for Optogenetic Applications

J Wu, L Liu, T Matsuda, Y Zhao, A Rebane… - ACS chemical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
We have used protein engineering to expand the palette of genetically encoded calcium ion
(Ca 2+ ) indicators to include orange and improved red fluorescent variants, and validated …

Nanoscale imaging of clinical specimens using pathology-optimized expansion microscopy

Y Zhao, O Bucur, H Irshad, F Chen, A Weins… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Expansion microscopy (ExM), a method for improving the resolution of light microscopy by
physically expanding a specimen, has not been applied to clinical tissue samples. Here we …