Sonali Gandhi

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Sonali Gandhi

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sgandhi@fas.harvard.edu


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Education:

PhD in Physics. Department of Physics, Wayne State University, Detroit MI.

MS in Physics. Department of Physics, Wayne State University, Detroit MI.

MSc in Condensed Matter Physics. The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India.

BSc in Physics. The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India.

Research Interests:

Sonali is a Biophysicist and obtained her M.S and PhD in Biophysics from Wayne State University, Detroit, MI. During her PhD, she developed new biophysical methods to measure the correlated diffusion of membrane-bound biomolecules. She applied these methods to reveal the ligand dependent co-diffusion of proteins on the surface of lipid droplets to study membrane organization and dynamics. Her research interest involves a broad area of protein-lipid interactions on model liposomes using various fluorescence techniques. As a postdoc the Extavour lab, she worked on the physico-chemical nature of interactions between Drosophila Oskar protein and its associated lipids.

Sonali is currently Assistant Professor of Physics at Lawrence Technological University and continues her collaboration with our lab.

Other Publications:
SA Gandhi, S Parveen, M Alduhailan, R Tripathi, N Junedi, M Saqallah, MA Sanders, PM Hoffmann, K Treux, JG Granneman, CV Kelly, Methods for making and observing model lipid droplets. Cell Reports Methods 4(5): 100774 (2024)
SA Gandhi, MA Sanders, JG Granneman, CV Kelly, Four-color fluorescence cross-correlation spectroscopy with one laser and one camera. bioRxiv, 01.30.526256 (2023)
S Parveen, SA Gandhi, MA Sanders, JG Granneman, CV Kelly, Lipid droplet monolayer protein binding and complexation Biophysical Journal 122(3): 505a (2023)

SA Gandhi and CV Kelly, Membrane asymmetry enhances nanotube formation and limits pore resealing after electroporation Biophysical Journal 121(17): 3173-3174 (2022)

SA Gandhi, MA Sanders, JG Granneman, CV Kelly, Diffusion study of hetero-oligomers detected by fluorescence cross-correlation spectroscopy (FCCS). Biophysical Journal 121(3): 69a (2022)
S Gandhi, C Kelly, Fluorescence cross correlation spectroscopy (FCCS) to reveal molecular mechanism of lipolysis. Bulletin of the American Physical Society 64 (2019)