Published / Accepted Papers
W. Tang, A. Das, A. F. Pegoraro, Y. L. Han, J. Huang, H. Yang, D. N. Kotton, D. Bi, M. Guo. “Collective curvature sensing and fluidity in three-dimensional multicellular systems” Nature Physics (2022).
S. Saha*, A. Das*, C. Patra, A. A. Anilkumar, P. Sil, S. Mayor, and M. Rao. "Active emulsions in living cell membranes driven by contractile stresses and transbilayer coupling" PNAS 119, e2123056119 (2022). (A Preprint can be found here)
A. Das, S. Sastry and D. Bi. "Controlled neighbor exchanges drive glassy behavior, intermittency and cell streaming in epithelial tissues". Physical Review X, 11, 041037 (2021).
J A. Mitchel*, A Das*, M J. O’Sullivan, I T. Stancil, S J. DeCamp, S Koehler, J P. Butler, J J. Fredberg, M. A Nieto, D Bi, and J A Park. “The unjamming transition is distinct from the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition” Nature Communications, 11, 5053 (2020). Highlighted in Northeastern University News, and featured in Nature Communications Editor's highlight.
A Das*, A Bhat*, R Sknepnek, D Koester, S Mayor and M Rao, "Stratification relieves constraints from steric hindrance in the generation of compact actomyosin asters at the membrane cortex" Science Advances, 6 : eaay6093 (2020).
M O'Sullivan, J Mitchel, A Das, S Koehler, H Levine, D Bi, Z Nagel, and J A Park, "Irradiation induces epithelial cell unjamming" Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 8, 21 (2020).
J. H. Kim, A. F. Pegoraro, A. Das, S. Koehler, S. A. Ujwary, B. Lan, J. A. Mitchel, L. Atia, S. He, K. Wang, D. Bi, M. Zaman, J. A. Park, J. P. Butler, K. H. Lee, J. R. Starr, and J. J. Fredberg, "Unjamming and collective migration in MCF10A breast cancer cell lines." Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 521, 706 (2020).
X. Li, A. Das and D. Bi, “Mechanical heterogeneity in tissues promotes rigidity and controls cellular invasion” Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 058101 (2019). Preprint on arXiv: arXiv:1905.02697
X. Li, A. Das and D. Bi, “A tunable biological tissue-inspired photonic fluid”. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 2018. Preprint on arXiv: arxiv link.
A. Das, A. Polley and M. Rao, Phase segregation of passive advective particles in an active medium. Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 068306 (2016)
A. Das, M. Ghosh, and J. Chakrabarti, Time dependent correlation between dihedral angles as probe for long range communication in proteins. Chem. Phys. Lett. 645, 200 (2016).
A. Das and J. Chakrabarti, Solvation in nanoscale solvophobic confinement near liquid-gas phase coexistence. Chem. Phys. Lett. 592, 256 (2014).
A. Das, J. Chakrabarti and M. Ghosh, Thermodynamics of interfacial changes in a protein-protein complex. Mol. Biosyst. 10, 437 (2014).
A. Das and J. Chakrabarti, Microscopic mechanisms of confinement induced slow solvation. J. Phys. Chem. A 117, 10571 (2013).
A. Das, J. Chakrabarti and M. Ghosh, Conformational thermodynamics of metal-ion binding to a protein, Chem. Phys. Lett. 581, 91 (2013).
A. Das, J. Chakrabarti and M. Ghosh, Conformational contribution to thermodynamics of binding in protein-peptide complexes through microscopic simulation, Biophys. J. 104, 1274 (2013).
A. Das, R. Biswas and J. Chakrabarti, Dipolar solute rotation in ionic liquids, electrolyte solutions and common polar solvents: Emergence of universality, Chem. Phys. Lett. 558, 36 (2013).
A. Das and J. Chakrabarti, Dimensional crossover in fluids under nanometer-scale confinement. Phys. Rev. E 85, 050601(R) (2012).
A. Das, R. Biswas and J. Chakrabarti, Solute rotation in polar liquids: Microscopic basis for the Stokes-Einstein-Debye model, J. Chem. Phys. 136, 014505 (2012).
A. Das, R. Biswas and J. Chakrabarti, Dipolar Solute Rotation in a Supercritical Polar Fluid, J. Phys. Chem. A 115, 973 (2011).