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Bo Wang is an Associate Professor at Stanford University with dual appointments in the Department of Bioengineering and the Department of Developmental Biology. He is also a member of Bio-X and the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute. His research integrates developmental biology, bioengineering, and statistical physics to understand collective cell behaviors that optimize tissue regeneration, adaptation, and evolution.
His research interests span systems biology of whole-body regeneration, cell type evolution through single-cell multiomic sequencing, quantitative biology of brain regeneration, and regeneration of animal-algal photosymbiotic systems. He has developed innovative tools like expansion spatial transcriptomics and quantitative organism-wide imaging approaches.
- Systems biology of regeneration
- Cell type evolution
- Neuroregeneration
- Photosymbiosis
His recent publications focus on regeneration mechanisms in flatworms and acoels, cross-species single-cell mapping, and expansion microscopy techniques. The work has been featured in top journals like Cell, Nature Communications, and eLife.
- 2024 - Genetic toolkit for Macrostomum lignano regeneration
- 2024 - Animal-algal holobiont wound coordination
- 2023 - Expansion spatial transcriptomics
- 2022 - Planarian mRNA transfection
Scientific awards include:
- SN10: Scientists to Watch (2020)
- Human Frontier Science Program Young Investigator (2019)
- Beckman Young Investigator (2017)
- Hellman Faculty Scholar (2017)
- Baxter Faculty Scholar (2016)
- Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award (2013)
PhD students and postdocs in his lab study regeneration biology, cell type evolution, and bioengineering tools. His research has been supported by the Beckman Foundation, Burroughs Wellcome Fund, Bio-X, Bachrach Family Foundation, Baxter Foundation, Human Frontier Science Program, NIH, NSF, and Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute.
