Publications
Publications
Submitted
B. J. Z. Herrera, A Das, L. R. Burack, A. Wang, M. Di Pierro, "Understanding the physical processes behind DNA-DNA proximity ligation assays" bioRxiv 2025.05. 02.649190.
A. Bhat, A. Das, M. Iyer, S. Beri, S. Talluri, D. Koester, M. Rao, and S. Mayor, "Active flows drive clustering and sorting of membrane components with differential affinity to dynamic actin cytoskeleton." bioRxiv 2025.08.29. 673170 (2025).
Publications after joining IIT Delhi
M. D. Marzio, A. Das, J. J. Fredberg, D. Bi, "Epithelial layer fluidization by curvature-induced unjamming", Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 138402 (2025). Preprint: arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.12667.
X. Xie, F. Sauer, S. Grosser, J. Lippoldt, E. Warmt, A. Das, D. Bi, T. Fuhs, J. A. Käs, "Impact of Cell and Nuclear Shape on Surface and Bulk Mechanics in Multicellular Cell Spheroids" Soft Matter 20, 1996 (2024).
Publications before IIT Delhi
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, 18, 1371 (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. Bansal, A. Das, M. Rao. "Active Segregation Dynamics in the Living Cell". Ind. J. Phys., 96, 2567 (2022).
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 by Nat. Comm. Editors and also in the Northeastern University News
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: arXiv:1905.02697
X. Li, A. Das and D. Bi, “A tunable biological tissue-inspired photonic fluid”. PNAS, 115, 6650 (2018). Preprint: 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).