Faculty Details

Manoj Gopalakrishnan

Professor

HSB 234.2
Ph.D. IMSc Chennai

📞 044-2257-4894
✉️ manojgopal@iitm.ac.in

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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