Sreeparvathy is a 3rd-year PhD student in Dr. Arnaud Hubstenberger’s team, studying the properties, organization and regulation of stress-induced RNA condensates.

For her recent PhD club talk, she introduced the members to two advanced super-resolution techniques – Structured Illumination Microscopy (SIM) and Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy (STORM). By achieving much higher resolutions than that obtained by conventional fluorescence microscopy, these methods allow us to visualize the intricate molecular details and organization of subcellular structures. Sreeparvathy discussed the advantages, applications and drawbacks of these techniques, while also highlighting how she implements them in her research project in collaboration with Sameh Ben Aicha from the PRISM platform at the institute.

To learn more about these methods, feel free to check out her presentation on the IBV common server.

(By Sreeparvathy Edachola)