Advanced Bioimaging with Cutting-Edge Microscopy

Srigokul (Gokul) Upadhyayula’s research interests bridge applied engineering with basic science. He studied the charge transfer properties of cyanine dyes and bioinspired electrets using ultra-fast femtosecond spectroscopy as a doctoral student with Valentine Vullev at the University of California, Riverside. Gokul joined Tom Kirchhausen’s group at Harvard Medical School/Boston Children’s Hospital as a postdoctoral fellow, where he focused on questions addressed at a molecular level using lattice light-sheet microscopy (LLSM) with high temporal and spatial resolution. In parallel, Gokul joined Eric Betzig’s group at Janelia Research Campus as a visiting scientist, where he collaborated on the adaptive optical LLSM project to investigate sub-cellular dynamics within the natural environment of multicellular organisms such as zebrafish embryos, and on the expansion microscopy and LLSM project to image the entire fly brain and mouse cortical column with synaptic resolution. Gokul is now the scientific director for the Advanced Bioimaging Center (ABC) at UC Berkeley.