Faculty Details

Areas of Interest

• Biological Physics

Current Research

Students

Current PhD Students

• PH14D020    ABHIK SAMUI
• PH14D028    BALARAMAMAHANTI SRINIVAS
• PH17D048    URVASHI NAKUL

Recent Publications

• Zero-order ultrasensitivity: A study of criticality and fluctuations under the total quasi-steady state approximation in the linear noise regime . PK Jithinraj, U Roy, M Gopalakrishnan. Journal of theoretical biology. 344. 1-11. 2014.
• Microtubule catastrophe from protofilament dynamics . V Jemseena, M Gopalakrishnan. Physical Review E. 88 (3). 032717. 2013.
• Memory, bias, and correlations in bidirectional transport of molecular-motor-driven cargoes . D Bhat, M Gopalakrishnan. Physical Review E. 88 (4). 042702. 2013.
• Effectiveness of a dynein team in a tug of war helped by reduced load sensitivity of detachment: evidence from the study of bidirectional endosome transport in D. discoideum . D Bhat, M Gopalakrishnan. Physical Biology. 9 (4). 046003. 2013.
• A first-passage-time theory for search and capture of chromosomes by microtubules in mitosis . M Gopalakrishnan, BS Govindan. Bulletin of mathematical biology. 73 (10). 2483-2506. 2011.
• Theoretical results for chemotactic response and drift of< i> E. coli in a weak attractant gradient . M Reneaux, M Gopalakrishnan. Journal of theoretical biology. 266 (1). 99-106. 2010.
• Length control of microtubules by depolymerizing motor proteins . BS Govindan, M Gopalakrishnan, D Chowdhury . EPL (Europhysics Letters). 83 (4). 40006. 2008.
• Self-consistent theory of reversible ligand binding to a spherical cell . S Ghosh, M Gopalakrishnan, K Forsten-Williams. Physical biology. 4 (4). 344. 2007.

Teaching

• 2017 :  (Jan - May) - PH5815 Physical Applications of Stochastic Processes
• 2018 :  (Jan - May) - PH2070 Introduction to Biological Physics / PH5240 Viva Voce; (Jul - Nov) - PH1010 Physics I / PH4999 UG Research Project
• 2019 :  (Jan - May) - PH5815 Physical Applications of Stochastic Processes; (Jul - Nov) - PH1010 Physics I
• 2020 :  (Jan - May) - EP3190 Engineering Physics Lab II / PH5815 - Physical Applications of Stochastic Processes; (Jul - Nov) - PH1010 Physics I / PH1020 Physics II
• 2021 :  (Jan - May) - PH5815 Physical Applications of Stochastic Processes
• 2022 :  (Jul - Nov) - PH1030 Physics Laboratory I / PH7080 Foundations in Theoretical Physics
• 2023 :  (Jan - May) - PH5120 Physics Lab II (PG) / PH5400 Viva Voce