News

April 2024

  • Aleese won the NEBEC Young Scientist Award.

  • Aleese, Huan, and Tianqi each gave a talk at the 50th Northeast Bioengineering Conference (NEBEC).

  • Shang gave a seminar for Therapeutic Laser Applications Technical Group in Optica.

March 2024

  • Tianqi’s paper on 3D particle streak velocimetry was published in Biomedical Optics Express.

January 2024

  • Andy, Tianqi, and Shang each gave a talk at the Photonics West BIOS.

December 2023

  • Jingyu’s Optics Continuum paper was selected as the highlight of the December issue.


November 2023

  • Jingyu’s paper on photothermal cell imaging was published in Optics Continuum.

  • Collaboration paper on imaging of cilia metachronal wave was published in Optica, featured in a news release by Optica, and featured by an article in Optics & Photonics News.

September 2023

  • Shang gave a seminar at the City College of New York.

June 2023

  • Aleese joined the lab as a graduate researcher.

  • Andy stayed with the lab as a research technician.

May 2023

  • Andy received the Outstanding Senior Award from Stevens.

  • Andy was featured by Photonics Spectra with “3 Questions with Andre Faubert”.

March 2023

  • Jingyu presented a poster at ACS Spring 2023.

February 2023

  • Andy’s Biomedical Optics Express paper was among the top downloads from January 2023.

January 2023

  • Andy gave two talks at the Photonics West BIOS.

  • Jingyu gave a talk at the Photonics West BIOS.

December 2022

  • Andy’s Biomedical Optics Express paper was highlighted as an Editor’s Pick.

  • Andy’s paper on open-source 4D embryonic heart imaging was published in Biomedical Optics Express. The code is on our Github: https://github.com/ShangWangLab/4D-Embryonic-Heart.

  • Shang received the Schaefer School Research Funding Award.

November 2022

  • Shang’s paper reviewing the in vivo imaging of gamete/embryo dynamics in the oviduct was published in Reproduction.

August 2022

  • Shang’s paper reviewing the imaging of embryonic heart valveless pumping was published in Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease.

July 2022

  • Dena joined the lab as an undergraduate researcher.

June 2022

  • Jingyu joined the lab as a postdoctoral researcher.

April 2022

  • Shang gave an invited talk at the Optica Biophotonics Congress: Biomedical Optics.

March 2022

  • Shang gave a seminar at Stony Brook University.

January 2022

  • Huan joined the lab as a graduate researcher.

  • Tianqi passed his qualifying exam.

  • Shuo joined the lab as a graduate researcher.


November 2021

  • Enkhy won the 1st place in the I&E Summer Scholar Poster Competition.


August 2021

  • Our Cell Reports paper was featured by a Research Highlight article in Lab Animal (Ellen P. Neff, “A window into the dynamic world of mouse reproduction”, Lab Animal, 50: 240, 2021).

  • Enkhy won the 3rd place in the I&E Summer Scholar Elevator Pitch Competition.

  • Shang received the NIH/NIGMS Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (R35).

July 2021

  • Shang’s paper on in vivo oocyte/embryo imaging was published in Cell Reports and featured by a news release from Baylor College of Medicine. Very excited about this paper.

  • Shang gave an invited talk at the Society for Reproductive Investigation 68th Annual Scientific Meeting.

June 2021

  • Shang joined the Editorial Board as a Review Editor for Frontiers in Physiology (developmental physiology section).

May 2021

  • Andy joined the lab as an undergraduate researcher.

  • Enkhy was selected as the I&E Summer Scholar at Stevens.

April 2021

  • Shang joined the Editorial Board as an Associate Editor for IEEE Photonics Journal.

January 2021

  • Shang gave an invited talk at the Photonics Spectra Conference 2021.

  • Enkhy joined the lab as an undergraduate researcher.

December 2020

  • We received a multi-PI NIH/NCI R21.

  • Shang’s book chapter was published in the Book “Imaging from Cells to Animals In Vivo”, CRC Press.

  • Biophotonics Magazine featured our study that was published in the JBO paper.

October 2020

  • Paper reviewing embryonic mouse cardiodynamic OCT imaging was published in Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease.

September 2020

  • Hirra continued her research in the lab while pursuing her Master's Degree.

August 2020

  • Shang’s paper on imaging of embryonic heart pumping dynamics was published in Journal of Biomedical Optics, selected for the Cover, and featured by a news release from SPIE.

  • Tianqi joined the lab as the first Ph.D. student.

July 2020

  • Paper on optogenetic pacing of mouse embryonic heart was published in Journal of Biophotonics.

May 2020

  • The Biomedical Optics Express paper is among top downloads in April 2021.

  • Shang gave a talk in the Summer Research Forum of the Schaefer School of Engineering and Science at Stevens.

  • Hirra and Elena joined the lab as undergraduate researchers for summer research.

March 2020

  • Shang’s paper reviewing label-free optical imaging in developmental biology was published in Biomedical Optics Express.

February 2020

  • Shang gave two talks at the Photonics West BIOS in San Francisco.

January 2020

  • We received a subaward of an NIH/NICHD R01, led by Baylor College of Medicine.

October 2019

  • Shang gave a talk at the Biomedical Engineering Society 2019 Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.

August 2019

  • Shang joined Stevens BME.

July 2019

  • Shang received the NIH/NIBIB Trailblazer Award (R21).