PUBLICATIONS

Shapir, Y., Raychaudhuri, S., Foster, D. G., Jorne, J. Scaling behavior of cyclical  surface growth. Physical Review Letters 84: 3029-3032 (2000).

Raychaudhuri, S., Shapir, Y., Chernyak, V., and Mukamel, S. Excitonic funneling in extended dendrimers with nonlinear and random potentials.  Physical Review Letters 87:282-285 (2000).

Raychaudhuri, S., Cranston, M., Przybyla, C., and Shapir, Y. Maximal height scaling of kinetically growing surfaces. Physical Review Letters 87:136101. (2001).

Raychaudhuri, S., Shapir, Y., and Jorne, J. Roughness scaling of cyclical surface growth. Physical Review E 64:051604 (2001).

Raychaudhuri, S., Shapir, Y., and Mukamel, S. Disorder and funneling effects on exciton migration in treelike dendrimers. Physical Review E 65:021803 (2002).

Hori, Y., Raychaudhuri, S., and Chakraborty, A. K. Analysis of pattern formation and phase separation in the immunological synapse. Journal of Chemical Physics 117: 9491-9501 (2002).

Raychaudhuri, S.  and Shapir, Y. Scaling behavior of randomly alternating surface growth processes. Journal of Physics A 35:10705–10720 (2002).

Raychaudhuri, S., Chakraborty, A. K., and Kardar, M. An effective membrane model of the immunological synapse. Physical Review Letters 91: 208101 (2003).

Lee, K-H., Dinner, A. R., Tu, C., Campi, G., Raychaudhuri, S., Varma, R., Sims, T. N., Burack, W. R., Wu, H., Wang, J., Kanagawa, O., Markiewicz, M., Allen, P. M., Dustin, M. L., Chakraborty, A. K., and Shaw, A. S.  The immunological synapse balances T cell receptor signaling and degradation. Science 302:1218-1222 (2003).

Raychaudhuri, S., Shapir, Y., and Mukamel, S. Exciton annihilation on dendrimeric trees. Journal of Luminescence, 111; 343-347 (2005).

Witt, C. M., Raychaudhuri, S., Schaefer, B., Chakraborty, A. K., and Robey, E. A. Directed migration of positively selected thymocytes visualized in real time. PloS Biology 3:1062-1069 (2005).

Sarantos, M. R., Raychaudhuri, S., Lum, A. F., Staunton, D. E., and Simon, S. I. Leukocyte function-associated antigen 1-mediated adhesion stability is dynamically regulated through affinity and valency during bond formation with intercellular adhesion molecule-1. Journal of Biological Chemistry 280:28290-28298 (2005).

Tsourkas, P. K., Baumgarth, N., Simon, S. I., and Raychaudhuri, S. Mechanisms of B cell synapse formation predicted by Monte Carlo Simulation. Biophysical Journal. 92:4096-4208 (2007).

Manuscripts Submitted

Tsourkas, P. K., Longo, M.L., and Raychaudhuri, S. Monte Carlo study of single molecule diffusion can elucidate the mechanism of B cell synapse formation. (In revision, 2008).

Raychaudhuri, S., Willgohs, E., and Nguyen, T-N., Large cell-to-cell stochastic fluctuation is predicted in a Monte Carlo study of apoptotic cell death signaling. (Submitted, 2008).

Raychaudhuri, S. A minimal signaling network can capture stochastic signaling mechanism of apoptosis. (Submitted, 2008).

Raychaudhuri, S., Tsourkas P.K. A simplified model of receptor diffusion and clustering during immunological synapse formation. (Submitted, 2008).

P. K. Tsourkas, and S. Raychaudhuri. Biased Diffusion of BCR-Ag Complexes is a potential mechanism of immunological synapse formation in B cells. (Submitted, 2008).

WORK IN PROGRESS

S. Raychaudhuri, and P. K. Tsourkas. Immunological synapse formation in B cells modulates affinity dependent graded response in B cells. (To be submitted, 2008).

S. Raychaudhuri, K. Beutner. Monte Carlo model of B cell receptor micro- and macro- clustering during immunological synapse formation. (To be submitted, 2008).

K. Beutner, and S. Raychaudhuri. How cells use stochastic signaling to choose between growth and death response. (To be submitted, 2008).