
Xiongtao Ruan
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Assistant Project Scientist
Advanced Bioimaging Center
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley
I’m an Assistant Project Scientist in the Advanced Bioimaging Center at UC Berkeley, working with Drs. Gokul Upadhyayula and Eric Betzig. In May 2019, I obtained my Ph.D. in Computational Biology advised by Dr. Robert F. Murphy at Carnegie Mellon University.
I develop technologies that accelerate biological discovery by combining advanced microscopy with computational innovation. I helped develop MOSAIC, a microscope that generates massive datasets, and created PetaKit5D, a platform for real-time, petabyte-scale image processing. Using these tools with laser-degradable expansion microscopy, we produced the first nanoscale images of entire mouse olfactory bulbs, revealing patterns of neurodegeneration. This integrated approach enables large-scale, high-resolution mapping of complex biological systems and is broadly applicable across neuroscience, cancer research, and developmental biology.
Education and employment
- Assistant Project Scientist/Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UC Berkeley, July 2019 - present
- Ph.D. in Computational Biology at Carnegie Mellon University, August 2014 - May 2019
- Research Assistant at the Jackson Laboratory, September 2012 - April 2014
- B.S. in Biological Science at the University of Science and Technology of China, September 2008 - July 2012