Publications

1. Issan Patri,  Garima Rani*,  Stochastic Failure Dynamics of the Peptidoglycan Cell Wall under Hydrolysis and Mechanical Loading, Submitted (In revision, 2026).

2. Garima Rani, Anupam Sengupta, Substrate stiffness governs dynamics and self-organization of nascent biofilms,  Arxiv (2025).

3. Rene Riedel, Garima Rani and Anupam Sengupta, "Bacterial Adhesion on Soft Surfaces: The Dual Role of Substrate Stiffness and Bacterial Growth Stage", Microorganisms 13 (3), 637 (2025).

4.   Garima Rani and Anupam Sengupta, "Growing bacterial colonies harness emergent genealogical demixing to regulate organizational entropy", Biophysical Reports 4, 100175, Cell press (2024).

5. Samapan Sikdar§*, Garima Rani§*, Satyavani Vemparala*, "Role of lipid packing defects in determining membrane interactions of antimicrobial polymers",  Langmuir 39, 4406–4412  (2023).

6. Rajani Bhat§, Leanna Foster§, Garima Rani§, Satyavani Vemparala and Kenichi Kuroda,  " Towards The function of peptide-mimetic anionic groups and salt bridges in the antimicrobial activity and conformation of cationic amphiphilic copolymers" ,  RSC Adv., 11,  22044-22056 (2021).

7. Garima Rani*, Kenichi Kuroda and Satyavani Vemparala, " Towards designing globular antimicrobial peptide mimics: role of polar functional groups in biomimetic ternary antimicrobial polymers", Soft Matter, 17, 2090-2103 (2021).

8. Garima Rani, Kenichi Kuroda and Satyavani Vemparala, "Aggregation dynamics of methacrylate-based ternary biomimetic polymers in solution",  Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 33, 064003 (2020).

9. Garima Rani* and Issan Patri, "Modelling heterogeneities in the crosslinked bacterial sacculus", Phys. Rev. Research 2, 013090 (2020). 

10. Garima Rani* and Issan Patri, "Importance of being cross-linked for the bacterial cell wall",  Phys. Rev. E 100, 062408 (2019). 

11. Renu Maan, Garima Rani, Gautam I. Menon and Pramod Pullarkat, "Modeling cell- substrate de-adhesion dynamics under fluid shear", Physical Biology, 15, 046006  (2018).

12. Vibhuti Jha§, Garima Rani§ and R. Ganesh, "Impurity-induced current in  a Chern  insulator", Phys. Rev. B, 95 , 115434 (2017).

*: Corresponding author, §: joint-first authors