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Tim Wang

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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A scalable, all-optical method for mapping synaptic connectivity with cell-type specificity

Maria V. Moya, William J. Cunningham, Jack P. Vincent, Tim Wang, Michael N. Economo

The paper introduces an all-optical method to map synaptic connectivity with cell-type specificity using spatial transcriptomics and optical measurements.

bioRxiv · Jun 25, 2025 · PreprintNeuroscience

Brain-wide neural activity underlying memory-guided movement

Susu Chen, Yi Liu, Ziyue Aiden Wang, Jennifer I. Colonell, Liu D. Liu, Han Hou, Nai-Wen Tien, Tim Wang, T.D. Harris, Shaul Druckmann, Nuo Li, Karel Svoboda

The paper records brain-wide neural activity in mice during a memory-guided task, showing distributed coding of choice and action across brain regions.

Cell · Feb 1, 2024Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

Expansion-Assisted Iterative-FISH defines lateral hypothalamus spatio-molecular organization

Yuhan Wang, Mark Eddison, Greg M. Fleishman, Martin Weigert, Shengjin Xu, Fredrick E. Henry, Tim Wang, Andrew L. Lemire, Uwe Schmidt, Hui Yang, Konrad Rokicki, Cristian Goina, Karel Svoboda, Eugene Wimberly Myers, Stephan Saalfeld, , Paul W. Tillberg

The paper introduces EASI-FISH, a method for spatial gene expression profiling in thick brain sections, and applies it to discover novel subregions in the lateral hypothalamus.

bioRxiv · Mar 8, 2021 · PreprintNeuroscience

Cellpose: a generalist algorithm for cellular segmentation

Carsen Stringer, Tim Wang, Michalis Michaelos, Marius Pachitariu

Cellpose segments diverse 2D and 3D microscopy cell images without retraining by predicting topological gradient vector flows via a style-conditioned residual U-net and routing pixels to cell centers.

Nature Methods · Dec 14, 2020Peer-reviewedBioinformatics✦ In-depth digest