We alternate journal club discussions and internal work update presentations within our group.
We also have regular biophysics seminars
Suggested/Upcoming discussions
- Scaling and spontaneous symmetry restoring of topological defect dynamics in liquid crystal
- Deriving a genetic regulatory network from an optimization principle
- A universal description of stochastic oscillators
- State transitions of a confined actomyosin system controlled through contractility and polymerization rate
- Vijay Krishnamurthy, Elastic Snap-Through Instabilities Are Governed by Geometric Symmetries
- Siddharth Jha, Fluctuating hydrodynamics and the Rayleigh–Plateau instability
Past discussions
12 March 2024
- Mandar Inamdar, Active shape programming drives Drosophila wing disc eversion
20 February 2024
06 February 2024
30 January 2024
19 January 2024
- Vijay Krishnamurthy, Swimming, Feeding, and Inversion of Multicellular Choanoflagellate Sheets
05 January 2024
22 December 2023
- Aditya Singh Rajput, Epithelia are multiscale active liquid crystals
24 Nov 2023
17 November 2023
03 November 2023
- Jigyasa Watwani, Stochastic Turing patterns of trichomes in Arabidopsis leaves
27 October 2023
13 October 2023
- Abhirami A G, Scaling behaviour and control of nuclear wrinkling
06 October 2023
22 September 2023
15 September 2023
- Vijay Krishnamurthy, Constraints on fundamental physical constants from bio-friendly viscosity and diffusion
04 August 2023
28 July 2023
- Jigyasa Watwani, Physical basis of the cell size scaling laws
07 July 2023
16 June 2023
- Vijay Krishnamurthy, Natural swarms in 3.99 dimensions
28 April 2023
21 April 2023
31 March 2023
17 March 2023
- Vijay Krishnamurthy, Phase-separation physics underlies new theory for the resilience of patchy ecosystems
10 March 2023
- Aditya Singh Rajput, A multi-state dynamic process confers mechano-adaptation to a biological nanomachine
08 February 2023
- Siddharth Jha, Heat fluctuations in chemically active systems
13 January 2023
- Mandar Inamdar, Emergent chirality in active solid rotation of pancreas spheres
06 January 2023
- Moitrish Majumdar, Role of the Cell Cycle in Collective Cell Dynamics
16 December 2022
- Shibashish Mahapatra, Self-organization in amoeboid motility
25 November 2022
18 November 2022
04 November 2022
- Jigyasa Watwani, Instabilities and Geometry of Growing Tissues
28 October 2022
- Vijay Krishnamurthy, Active Nematic Flows over Curved Surfaces
21 October 2022
- Aditya Singh Rajput, Mechanical feedback defines organizing centers to drive digit emergence
23 September 2022
- Siddharth Jha, Non-reciprocal phase transitions
09 September 2022
- Moitrish Majumdar, Modeling the Growth of Organisms Validates a General Relation between Metabolic Costs and Natural Selection
26 August 2022
- Ankush GK, Topological active matter
19 August 2022
12 August 2022
- Aditya Singh Rajput, Nonlinear Phototaxis and Instabilities in Suspensions of Light-Seeking Algae
08 June 2022
- Vijay Krishnamurthy, Pattern Propagation Driven by Surface Curvature
16 March 2022
- Aditya Singh Rajput, Intracellular softening and increased viscoelastic fluidity during division
02 March 2022
- Vijay Krishnamurthy, Integer topological defects organize stresses driving tissue morphogenesis
16 Feb 2022
- Tuhin Chakraborty, Escherichia coli chemotaxis is information limited
09 Feb 2022
- Jigyasa watwani, The cusp of an apple
24 September 2021
- Mandar Inamdar, Rigidity percolation uncovers a structural basis for embryonic tissue phase transitions
17 September 2021
- Aditya Singh Rajput, Stick–slip model for actin-driven cell protrusions,cell polarization, and crawling
03 September 2021
- Vijay Krishnamurthy, Disentangling Intrinsic and Extrinsic Gene Expression Noise in Growing Cells
07 August 2021
23 July 2021
- Aditya Rajput, Pinching the cortex of live cells reveals thickness instabilities caused by myosin II motors
09 July 2021
- Siddharth Jha, Half-integer and full-integer topological defects in polar active matter: Emergence, crossover, and coexistence
25 June 2021
- Jigyasa Watwani, Reaction-diffusion in a growing 3D domain of skin scales generates a discrete cellular automaton
11 June 2021
- Praneet Kumar Singh,
21 May 2021
- Mandar Inamdar, Nonlinear rheology of cellular networks
14 May 2021
- Vijay Krishnamurthy, Morphology of active deformable 3D droplets
07 May 2021
12 April 2021
29 March 2021
- Jigyasa Watwani, Lessons from equilibrium statistical physics regarding the assembly of protein complexes
22 March 2021
15 March 2021
- Vijay Krishnamurthy, Motor-Free Contractility in Active Gels
08 March 2021
- Siddharth Jha, Multiscale integration of environmental stimuli in plant tropism produces complex behaviors
22 February 2021
- Praneet Kumar Singh, Lamellar to Micellar Phases and Beyond: When Tactic Active Systems Admit Free Energy Functionals
18 February 2021
- Aditya Rajput, The nucleus measures shape changes for cellular proprioception to control dynamic cell behavior
11 February 2021
07 January 2021
- Vijay Krishnamurthy, Thermodynamics of Animal Locomotion
31 December 2020
- Shashi Thutupalli, A unicellular relative of animals generates a layer of polarized cells by actomyosin-dependent cellularization
24 December 2020
- Suriya Selvarajan, Reconciling Kinetic and Equilibrium Models of Bacterial Transcription
18 December 2020
- Praneet Kumar Singh, Engineering self-organized criticality in living cells
10 December 2020
- Siddharth Jha, Statistical mechanics of a chiral active fluid
02 December 2020
- Aditya Rajput, Nutrient-Dependent Trade-Offs between Ribosomes and Division Protein Synthesis Control Bacterial Cell Size and Growth
19 November 2020
12 November 2020
- Praneet Kumar Singh, Statistical Mechanics of an Elastically Pinned Membrane: Equilibrium Dynamics and Power Spectrum
05 November 2020
- Vijay Krishnamurthy, Theory of mechanochemical patterning and optimal migration in cell monolayers
22 October 2020
- Siddharth Jha, Topological defects in the nematic order of actin fibers as organization centers of Hydra morphogenesis
15 October 2020
- Shashi Thutupalli, Proofreading through spatial gradients
01 October 2020
- Aditya Raput, Cellular mechanisms of chick limb bud morphogenesis
24 September 2020
- Vijay Krishnamurthy, A minimal self-organisation model of the Golgi apparatus
18 September 2020
04 September 2020
- Siddharth Jha, 3D shape of epithelial cells on curved substrates
21 August 2020
- Raghavendra Nimiwal, Precision of Flow Sensing by Self-Communicating Cells
- Aditya Rajput, Embryonic Tissues as Active Foams
14 August 2020
- Pritha Dolai, Topological structure and dynamics of three-dimensional active nematics
- Aniruddha, Collective cell mechanics of epithelial shells with organoid-like morphologies
07 August 2020
- Saaransh Singhal, Mechanochemical symmetry breaking during morphogenesis of lateral-line sensory organs
- Ahandeep Manna, Odd viscosity in active matter: microscopic origin and 3D effects
31 July 2020
- Siddharth Jha, Contact area–dependent cell communication and the morphological invariance of ascidian embryogenesis
- Aditya Rajput, Shaping Organs: Shared Structural Principles Across Kingdoms
24 July 2020
10 July 2020
- Raghavendra Nimiwal, Synthetic Turing patterns in engineered microbial consortia
- Siddharth Jha, Error-Speed Correlations in Biopolymer Synthesis
26 June 2020
- Vijay Krishnamurthy, Universal elastic mechanism for stinger design
12 June 2020
29 May 2020
- Ahandeep Manna, Active Contact Forces Drive Non-Equilibrium Fluctuations in Membrane Vesicles
- Saaransh Singhal, Cytoplasmic streaming in plant cells emerges naturally by microfilament self-organization
22 May 2020
- Vidyanand Nanjundiah, Tissue self-organization based on collective cell migration by contact activation of locomotion and chemotaxis
- Abhratanu Saha, Hydraulic control of mammalian embryo size and cell fate
15 May 2020
- Pritha Dolai, Confinement-induced self-organization in growing bacterial colonies
- Aniruddha, Sustained Oscillations of Epithelial Cell Sheets
08 May 2020
- Siddharth Jha, Universal scaling of active nematic turbulence
- Raghavendra Nimiwal, Polar jets of swimming bacteria condensed by a patterned liquid crystal
01 May 2020
- Vijay Krishnamurthy, Topological turbulence in the membrane of a living cell
- Shashi Thutupalli, Universality of dissipative self-assembly from quantum dots to human cells
17 April 2020
- Saransh Singhal, Cooperatively enhanced reactivity and ‘stabilitaxis’ of dissociating oligomeric proteins
- Ahandeep Manna, Flexible filaments buckle into helicoidal shapes in strong compressional flows
10 April 2020
- Aditya Rajput, Action at a distance in transcriptional regulation
- Pritha Dolai, Activated diffusiophoresis
03 April 2020
24 March 2020
- Aniruddha, Active matter in a viscoelastic environment
10 March 2020
- Saaransh Singhal, Geometric cues stabilise long-axis polarisation of PAR protein patterns in C. elegans
05 March 2020
12 February 2020
- Shray Chaturvedi, Rotating lamellipodium waves in polarizing cells
29 January 2020
- Siddharth Jha, Low-dimensional dynamics of two coupled biological oscillators
- Vijay Krishnamurthy, Topological chaos in active nematics
08 January 2020
- Aditya Rajput, A non-linear analysis of Turing pattern formation
- Pritha Dolai, The active trap model
27 November 2019
- Aniruddha, Modulation of tissue growth heterogeneity by responses to mechanical stress
- Ahandeep Manna, Hydrodynamically Interrupted Droplet Growth in Scalar Active Matter
20 November 2019
- Shray Chaturvedi, Spectral Numerical Exterior Calculus Methods for Differential Equations on Radial Manifolds
13 November 2019
- Ajay Bansal, Mechanics of active surfaces
23 October 2019
- V Jemseena, Theoretical study of vesicle shapes driven by coupling curved proteins and active cytoskeletal forces
09 October 2019
- Siddharth Jha, Topology and morphology of self-deforming active shells
25 September 2019
- Sankaran Nampoothiri, Oscillatory fluid flow drives scaling of contraction wave with system size
04 September 2019
- Shray Chaturvedi, Active morphogenesis of epithelial monolayers
21 August 2019
- Saaransh Singhal, Vertex Models of Epithelial Morphogenesis
07 August 2019
04 July 2019
- Pritha Dolai, Cellular interactions constrain tumor growth
13 June 2019
- Aditya Rajput, Modelling fluid deformable surfaces with an emphasis on biological interfaces
- Jason Picardo, Cell Membranes Resist Flow
02 April 2019
- Vijay Krishnamurthy, Optimal Segregation of Proteins: Phase Transitions and Symmetry Breaking
- Akhil, Active Fingering Instability in Tissue Spreading
28 March 2019
21 February 2019
- Pritha Dolai, Active wetting of epithelial tissues
- Vidyanand Nanjundiah, Trait heritability in major transitions
07 February 2019
- Kanaya Malakar, Bose-Einstein Condensation in Scalar Active Matter with Diffusivity Edge
- Mandar Inamdar, Geometry of epithelial cells provides a robust method for image based inference of stress within tissues
24 January 2019
- Sankaran Nampoothiri, Thermodynamic equilibrium of binary mixtures on curved surfaces
- Vijay Krishnamurthy, Shaping the topology of folding pathways in mechanical systems
02 January 2019
- Siddharth Jha, Differential growth and shape formation in plant organs
- Pritha Dolai, Robustness of Clocks to Input Noise
11 December 2018
25 October 2018
- Vijay Krishnamurthy, Positioning of Particles in Active Droplets
- Mandar Inamdar, Planar morphometrics using Teichmüller maps
11 October 2018
- V Jemseena, Dynamic Morphologies and Stability of Droplet Interface Bilayers
- Padmalochini, Statistical Properties of Autonomous Flows in 2D Active Nematics
27 September 2018
- Sankaran Nampoothiri, Stabilization of a spatially uniform steady state in two systems exhibiting Turing patterns
12 September 2018
30 August 2018
- Vidya Menon, Actomyosin meshwork mechanosensing enables tissue shape to orient cell force
- Pritha Dolai, Self-organized stress patterns drive state transitions in actin cortices
16 August 2018
- Mandar Inamdar, Universal inverse design of surfaces with thin nematic elastomer sheets
- Vijay Krishnamurthy, Geometry of Wave Propagation on Active Deformable Surfaces
02 August 2018
- Padmalochini, Deciphering microbial interactions in synthetic human gut microbiome communities
- V Jemseena, Active Growth and Pattern Formation in Membrane-Protein Systems
19 July 2018
- Sankaran Nampoothiri, Growth of Form in Thin Elastic Structures
- Shashank Roy, Active crystals on a sphere
05 July 2018
- D V Arjun, Stochastic Turing patterns in a synthetic bacterial population
- Shubham Anand, Viscotaxis: Microswimmer Navigation in Viscosity Gradients
21 June 2018
- Pritha Dolai, Active motion on curved surfaces
- Vidya Menon, C. elegans germ cells divide and differentiate along a folded epithelium
14 June 2018
- Aditya Rajput, Tissue flow induces cell shape changes during organogenesis
31 May 2018
- Mandar Inamdar, Growth patterns for shape-shifting elastic bilayers
- Vijay Krishnamurthy, Gravisensors in plant cells behave like an active granular liquid
03 May 2018
- Jason Picardo, Fluctuations uncover a distinct class of travelling waves
12 April 2018
- Sankaran Nampoothiri, Pinning of Diffusional Instabilities by Non-Uniform Curvature
- Padma Lochini, Defining a Physical Basis for Diversity in Protein Self-Assemblies
Using a Minimal Model
22 March 2018
- Vidya Menon, Structure of the fission yeast actomyosin ring during constriction
- V Jemseena, Role of hydrodynamic flows in chemically driven droplet
division
08 March 2018
- Mandar Inamdar, Global morphogenetic flow is accurately predicted by the spatial distribution of myosin motors
- Vijay Krishnamurthy, Rethinking pattern formation in reaction-diffusion
systems
14 February 2018
- Sankaran Nampoothiri, A Preferred Curvature-Based Continuum Mechanics Framework for Modeling Embryogenesis
- V Jemseena, Curvature-induced defect unbinding and dynamics in active nematic toroids
25 January 2018
- Padma Lochini, Nuclear envelope rupture and repair during cancer cell migration
- Debajit Goswami, Regulating positioning and orientation of mitotic spindles via cell size and shape
23 November 2017
- Pritha Dolai, Lattice Model to Derive the Fluctuating Hydrodynamics of Active Particles with Inertia
- Sankaran Nampoothiri, Theory of Turing Patterns on Time Varying Networks
09 November 2017
- Mandar Inamdar, Geometric frustration and solid-solid transitions in model 2D tissue
- Padma Lochini, Approximate Bayesian computation reveals the importance of
repeated measurements for parameterising cell-based models of growing
tissues
16 October 2017
- Vijay Krishnamurthy, Five ways to model active processes in elastic solids
- V Jemseena, Geometric constraints alter cell arrangements within curved epithelial tissues
28 September 2017
- V Jemseena, Topological Sound and Flocking on Curved Surfaces
- Vidya Menon, Mechanochemical Signaling Directs Cell-Shape Change
23 July 2017
- Vidya Menon, Positive Feedback Between Contractile Ring Myosin and Ring-Directed Cortical Flow Drives Cytokinesis
- Padma Lochini, Activation and synchronization of the oscillatory morphodynamics in multicellular monolayer
12 July 2017
- Debajit Goswami, Connecting macroscopic dynamics with microscopic properties in active microtubule network contraction
27 June 2017
- Mandar Inamdar, Topological defects in epithelia govern cell death and extrusion
- V Jemseena, Dimensional, Geometrical, and Physical Constraints in Skull Growth
02 March 2017
16 February 2017
- Debajit Goswami, Exclusion and Hierarchy of Time Scales Lead to Spatial Segregation of Molecular Motors in Cellular Protrusions
02 February 2017
01 December 2016
17 November 2016
- Debajit Goswami, Intermediate scattering function of an anisotropic active Brownian particle
- Mandar Inamdar, Myosin II controls junction fluctuations to guide epithelial tissue ordering
03 November 2016
- Debajit Goswami, Boundaries steer the contraction of active gels
- V Jemseena, Stochastic thermodynamics for active matter
- Shashi Thutupalli, Spatiotemporal order and emergent edge currents in active spinner materials
13 October 2016
- Pallab Basu, First-order patterning transitions on a sphere as a route to cell morphology
- Vijay Krishnamurthy, Stresslets Induced by Active Swimmers
29 September 2016