CV

Degree

• Ph.D. in Chemistry (Advisor: Professor Khalid Salaita), Emory University, 2020

• B.S. in Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, 2014   

Specific Research Area 

• DNA nanotechnology, imaging, spatial biology, mechanobiology, nanoscience

Awards and Honors

1. Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Finance Students Abroad

Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, 2021

2. BPS Student Travel Award

Biophysical Society, 2019

3. Quayle Student Achievement Award

Emory University, 2019

4. Chinese Undergraduate Visiting Research (UGVR) Program

Stanford University, 2013

Selected Publications 

• "Massively Parallelized Molecular Force Manipulation with On-Demand Thermal and Optical Control", Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2021.

• "Live-cell super-resolved PAINT imaging of piconewton cellular traction forces", Nature Methods, 2020.

• "Mechanical stimulation of adhesion receptors using light-responsive nanoparticle actuators enhances myogenesis", ACS applied materials & interfaces, 2020

• "Localized nanoscale heating leads to ultrafast hydrogel volume-phase transition", ACS Nano, 2018.

• "Light-responsive polymer particles as force clamps for the mechanical unfolding of target molecules", Nano letters, 2018.

Presentations 

1. “ACE Enables Multiscale Highly Multiplexed Biomolecule Imaging with Signal Amplification” (Poster Presentations)

69th BPS Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, USA, February 15, 2025

2. “Multiplexing in cleared samples” (Oral Presentations)

Tissue Clearing Workshop, Harvard University, February 10, 2025

3. “Scalable DNA-based bioimaging of proteins and RNAs in cells and tissues” (Oral Presentations)

MicRoN Open House Symposium, Harvard University, February 26, 2024

4. “Polymer force clamps for the mechanical unfolding of target molecules.” (Oral Presentations)

64th BPS Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, USA, February 18, 2020. 

5. “Light-Responsive Polymer Particles as Force Clamps for the Mechanical Unfolding of Biomolecules (Poster Presentations)

63rd BPS Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, USA, March 2, 2019. 

6. “Light-Responsive Polymer Particles as Force Clamps for the Mechanical Unfolding of Biomolecules” (Poster Presentations)

The 10th Biennial Single Molecule Biophysics Conference, Aspen Center for Physics, CO, USA, January 6-11, 2019. 

7. “Light-Responsive Polymer Particles as Force Clamps for the Mechanical Unfolding of Target Molecules” (Poster Presentations) 

The 11th Southeast Meeting on Soft Materials, Emory University, GA, USA, May 23, 2018. 

8. “Light-Responsive Polymer Particles as Force Clamps for the Mechanical Unfolding of Target Molecules” (Poster Presentations)

Greater Atlanta Chemical Biology Symposium (GACBS) 2018 Program, GA, USA, April 21, 2018. 

9. “Nanoparticles for mechanical unfolding of biomolecules” (Poster Presentations)

Molecular Assembly and Function Conference, Emory University, GA, USA, June 2, 2017. 

10. “Dynamic Materials for Synthetic Muscle and Optomechanics” (Poster Presentations)

Molecular Assembly and Function Conference, Emory University, GA, USA, June 2, 2017. 

11. “Nanoscale optomechanical actuators for controlling mechanotransduction in living cells” (Poster Presentations)

The 11th annual Emerson Center Lectureship Award Symposium, Emory University, GA, USA, October 5, 2015.