Gauravi Deshpande
Gauravi gained a PhD from the Indian Institute of Science, which was followed by post-doctoral work at the Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany. She works as an imaging scientist at the Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland, Ohio. Her expertise includes live-cell imaging and confocal microscopy.
Articles by Gauravi Deshpande
Shared microscopes have the potential to get dirty and spread nasties between samples and users. Check out our quick guide on how to clean and disinfect your microscope.
Don’t be daunted by imaging and analyzing your wound healing assay; our top tips will get it looking perfect.
Are you wanting to study cell migration and need a way to quantify it? A wound healing assay is one of the earliest and simplest in-vitro assays developed to study cell migration. Collective cell migration is a characteristic behaviour seen in wound repair, cancer invasion, cancer metastasis, immune response, angiogenesis and embryonic morphogenesis. Depending on…
Achieving publication-quality immunofluorescence images can get tricky and it’s therefore important to ensure you have the right controls for immunofluorescence.