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Paul Tillberg

Paul, as a Hertz Fellow, completed his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering at MIT. He worked on expansion microscopy, a novel way to map molecules and anatomy throughout extended cells and tissues, for which he won the Hertz Thesis Prize for his pioneering contributions. Before joining the Boyden lab, Paul completed a degree in Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California in 2003 and several years later, instead of going to law school, completed another undergraduate degree at UC Berkeley in Electrical and Materials Engineering. After graduation, Paul went on to become a Janelia Fellow.

Publications

  • Alon S*, Goodwin DR*, Sinha A*, Wassie AT*, Chen F*, Daugharthy ER**, Bando Y, Kajita A, Xue AG, Marrett K, Prior R, Cui Y, Payne AC, Yao CC, Suk HJ, Wang R, Yu CJ, Tillberg P, Reginato P, Pak N, Liu S, Punthambaker S, Iyer EPR, Kohman RE, Miller JA, Lein ES, Lako A, Cullen N, Rodig S, Helvie K, Abravanel DL, Wagle N, Johnson BE, Klughammer J, Slyper M, Waldman J, Jané-Valbuena J, Rozenblatt-Rosen O, Regev A; IMAXT Consortium, Church GM***+, Marblestone AH***, Boyden ES***+ (2021) Expansion Sequencing: Spatially Precise In Situ Transcriptomics in Intact Biological Systems, Science 371(6528):eaax2656. (* equal contribution, ** key contributions to early stages of project, *** equal contribution, +co-corresponding authors)

  • D. Oran*, S. G. Rodriques*, R. Gao, S. Asano, M. A. Skylar-Scott, F. Chen, P. W. Tillberg, A. H. Marblestone**, E. S. Boyden** (2018) 3D nanofabrication by volumetric deposition and controlled shrinkage of patterned scaffolds, Science 362(6420):1281-1285. (*, equal contributors; **, equal contributors)

  • Asano SM*, Gao R*, Wassie AT*, Tillberg PW, Chen F, Boyden ES (2018) Expansion Microscopy: Protocols for Imaging Proteins and RNA in Cells and Tissues, Current Protocols in Cell Biology 80(1):e56. (*, co-first authors)

  • Wang Y, Woehrstein JB, Donoghue N, Dai M, Avendaño MS, Schackmann RCJ, Zoeller JJ, Wang SSH, Tillberg PW, Park D, Lapan SW, Boyden ES, Brugge JS, Kaeser PS, Church GM, Agasti SS, Jungmann R, Yin P (2017) Rapid Sequential in Situ Multiplexing with DNA Exchange Imaging in Neuronal Cells and Tissues, Nano Letters 17(10):6131-6139.

  • Chang, J.-B., Chen, F., Yoon, Y.-G., Jung, E. E., Babcock H., Kang J.-S., Asano S., Suk H.-J., Pak N., Tillberg P.W., Wassie A., Cai D., Boyden E.S. (2017) Iterative expansion microscopy, Nature Methods 14:593-599.

  • Crittenden JR, Tillberg PW, Riad MH, Shima Y, Gerfen CR, Curry J, Housman DE, Nelson SB, Boyden ES, Graybiel AM (2016) Striosome-dendron bouquets highlight a unique striatonigral circuit targeting dopamine-containing neurons, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(40):11318–11323.

  • Tillberg, P.W.*, Chen, F.*, Piatkevich, K.D., Zhao, Y., Yu, C.-C., English, B.P., Gao, L., Martorell, A., Suk, H.-J., Yoshida, F., DeGennaro, E.M., Roossien, D.H., Gong, G., Seneviratne, U., Tannenbaum, S.R., Desimone, R., Cai, D., Boyden, E.S. (2016) Protein-retention expansion microscopy of cells and tissues labeled using standard fluorescent proteins and antibodies, Nature Biotechnology 34:987-992. (*, co-first authors)

  • Zhang YS*, Chang JB*, Alvarez MM, Trujillo-de Santiago G, Aleman J, Batzaya B, Krishnadoss V, Ramanujam AA, Kazemzadeh-Narbat M, Chen F, Tillberg PW, Dokmeci MR, Boyden ES**, Khademhosseini A.** (2016) Hybrid Microscopy: Enabling Inexpensive High-Performance Imaging through Combined Physical and Optical Magnifications, Scientific Reports 6:22691. (* co-first authors, ** co-corresponding authors)

  • Chen, F.*, Tillberg, P.W.*, Boyden, E.S. (2015) Expansion Microscopy, Science 347(6221):543-548. (*, equal contribution)

  • Schmidt, D., Tillberg, P. W.*, Chen, F.*, Boyden, E. S. (2014) A fully genetically-encoded protein architecture for optical control of peptide ligand concentration, Nature Communications, 5:3019. (* equal contribution)

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