Xiaotang Lu is a Postdoctoral Fellow from Prof. Jeff Lichtman’s group in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University. She received her B.S. and M.S. in Chemistry from Tsinghua University and a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interest revolves around the development of new methods and tools to illustrate structures at nanoscales. In her graduate research, she designed nanomaterials for solar cells and high-capacity lithium-ion batteries and developed in situ EM techniques to study materials’ structural change during electrochemical reactions. For her postdoc studies, Xiaotang became interested in the connections of neurons and decided to translate her expertise in nanotechnology to tackle challenges in brain imaging, particularly new methodologies for connectomics. Xiaotang has co-invented NATIVE (Nanobody-assisted tissue immunostaining for volumetric EM), a widely applicable immunostaining approach for intracellular targets while preserving tissue ultrastructures. She is currently developing enhanced osmium staining for the whole mouse brain connectome.