Stanford
Wang Lab Department of Bioengineering Department of Bioengineering

In the News

May 2024. Dania Nanes Sarfati's work on the regeneration of a photosymbiotic acoel is published in Nature Communications and highlighted by Stanford Report (read more | video about the system). Her work is also highlighted in Scientific American.

Aug. 2023. Our work on Expansion Spatial Transcriptomics is published in Nature Methods and highlighted by Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute. (read more) 

Jul. 2023. Yuhang Fan's work on systemic regeneration responses is published in Cell and highlighted in Stanford News. (read more)

May 2022. Our research on planarian regeneration and cell type evolution is spotlighted in Stanford Reports. (read more)

May 2021. Alec Tarashansky's work on mapping single-cell transcriptomic atlases across long evolutionary distances to understand cell type evolution is published in eLife and highlighted in Stanford News. (read more)

Sept. 2020. Our work on planarian regeneration is featured by 2020 Science News 10: Scientists to Watch. (read more)

Jul. 2020. Stanford News highlights our paper in PLOS Computational Biology, which develops a new method to predict unprecedent extreme events in ecological fluctuations. (read more)

Mar. 2020. Our work on neural packing in the planarian brain is published in Nature Physics and highlighted in Stanford News. (read more)

Oct. 2019. Our work on mechanically resolved expansion microscopy is published in PLOS Biology and highlighted in Stanford News. (read more)

Jun. 2019. Our work on schistosomes is featured in Stanford Medicine Magazine. (read more)

Apr. 2019. Nelson Hall's project on planarian transgenics is highlighted in Stanford News. (read more)

Dec. 2018. Our work on parasite stem cells is highlighted in Stanford Engineering Magazine. (read more)

Oct. 2018. Check out the KQED video on planarian regeneration that Nelson Hall and Dania Nanes Sarfati helped to produce. This has got more than a million views! (video & story) (NPR) (Youtube)

Feb. 2016. The lab is open for business, and Alec Tarashansky becomes the first PhD student of the lab!

Oct. 2013. Our research was featured on NIH director’s blog. (read more)

Aug. 2013. Our image of a developing schistosome larva inside the muscular tentacle of its snail host was selected as one of the winners of the second annual BioArt competition by American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB). The image was featured in an exhibit on the National Institutes of Health main campus, also displayed at Washington Dulles International Airport’s Gateway Gallery from June through November 2014.

Honors of Group Members

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship: Prateek Kalakuntla (2021); Livia Wyss (2019); Nelson Hall (2017); Chew Chai (2017).

Stanford Graduate Fellowship (SGF): Prateek Kalakuntla (2021); Jesse Gibson (2019); Chew Chai (2017); Alec Tarashansky (2015).

Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship (SIGF): Eunsun Song (2022); Yuhang Fan (2020); Alec Tarashansky (2018); Margarita Khariton (2017).

Bio-X Bowes Graduate Student Fellowship: Dania Nanes Sarfati (2020).

Diversifying Academia, Recruiting Excellence (DARE) Doctoral Fellowship: Chew Chai (2022).

Siebel Scholar: Margarita Khariton (2020).

Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Scholar: Chew Chai (2022).

Agilent Fellowship: Pengyang Li (2018).

Stanford School of Medicine Dean's Postdoctoral Fellowship: Souradeep Sarkar (2023); Youngbin Lim (2016).

National and International Conference Talks by Group Members

Jun. 2024. Chew Chai, North American Comparative Immunology Meeting, Santa Cruz, "Best Student Talk" 2nd prize.

Dec. 2023. Chew Chai, ASCB|EMBO Cell Bio 2023 Meeting, Boston.

Jun. 2023. Nelson Hall, Dania Nanes Sarfati, Chew Chai, 5th North American Planarian Meeting, Portland.

Jan. 2023. Yuhang Fan, Physics of Life Symposium, CZ Biohub. (program)

Jan. 2023. Dania Nanes Sarfati, Conference of the American Society of Naturalists, Pacific Grove.

Aug. 2022. Yuhang Fan, Santa Cruz Developmental Biology meeting, "Best Chosen Talk" award.

Mar. 2022. Sam Bray, American Physical Society March Meeting. (abstract)

Jul. 2021. Pengyang Li, Society for Developmental Biology 80th Annual Meeting.

Jan. 2021. Dania Nanes Sarfati, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting.

Dec. 2020. Chew Chai, Alec Tarashansky, ASCB/EMBO Cell Bio 2020 meeting. (Chew's abstract | Alec's abstract)

Jan. 2020. Nelson Hall, "Circular DNA in normal development and disease", Berlin Institute of Health, Germany. (agenda)

Apr. 2019. Pengyang Li, 2019 Molecular Helminthology Conference, San Antonio.

Mar. 2019. Sam Bray, American Physical Society March Meeting, Boston. (abstract)

Jul. 2018. Alec Tarashansky, International Planarian Meeting, Madison.

Jun. 2018. Youngbin Lim, q-bio Conference, Houston.

Mar. 2018. Alec Tarashansky, Sam Bray, American Physical Society March Meeting, Los Angeles.

Oct. 2017. Pengyang Li, 4th North American Planarian Meeting, Woods Hole. (program)