Publications
In Print
Sumit Sinha and Debashish Chowdhury. "TASEP on parallel tracks: Effects of mobile bottlenecks in fixed segments". Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 430, 254-262. (2015)
Abdul Nasser, Xin Li, Himadri Samanta, Sumit Sinha and D. Thirumalai, “Cell growth rate dictates the onset of glass to fluid-like transition and long time super-diffusion in an evolving cell colony.” Physical Review X 8 (2), 021025
Sumit Sinha, Abdul N Malmi-Kakkada, Xin Li, Himadri S Samanta, D. Thirumalai,"Spatially heterogeneous dynamics of cells in a growing tumor spheroid: Comparison between Theory and Experiments." Soft Matter, 2020,16, 5294-5304
Sumit Sinha and D. Thirumalai, "Self-generated persistent random forces drive phase separation in growing tumors." The Journal of Chemical Physics, 153, 201101 (2020). Published as a Communication.
Sumit Sinha and Abdul N Malmi-Kakkada, "Inter-particle adhesion regulates the surface roughness of growing dense three-dimensional active particle aggregates" J. Phys. Chem. B 2021, 125, 37, 10445–10451
Abdul Nasser, Sumit Sinha, Xin Li and D. Thirumalai,"Adhesion strength between cells regulate non-monotonic growth by a biomechanical feedback mechanism" Biophys. J., 2022
Sumit Sinha, Xin Li, Rajsekhar Das and D. Thirumalai, "Mechanical feedback controls the emergence of dynamical memory in growing tissue monolayers" The Journal of Chemical Physics, 156, 245101 (2022) (Editor's Choice, Journal Cover)
Sumit Sinha, Himadri Samanta, and D. Thirumalai, "Observe without disturbing: tracer particles sense local stresses in cell collectives without affecting the cancer cell dynamics." Soft Matter, 2023, 19, 5385-5395.
Rajsekhar Das, Sumit Sinha, Xin Li, T. R. Kirkpatrick, and D. Thirumalai, "Free volume theory explains the unusual behavior of viscosity in a non-confluent tissue during morphogenesis" eLife, 2024.
Bryan A Nerger, Sumit Sinha, Nathan N Lee, Maria Cheriyan, Pascal Bertsch, Christopher P Johnson, L Mahadevan, Joseph V Bonventre, David J Mooney, "3D Hydrogel Encapsulation Regulates Nephrogenesis in Kidney Organoids." Advanced Materials, 2024, 2308325.
Under Review
Sumit Sinha, Xin Li and D. Thirumalai, "Statistical Mechanical theory for spatio-temporal evolution of Intra-tumor heterogeneity in cancers: Analysis of Multiregion sequencing data." arxiv: 2202.10595.
Xin Li, Sumit Sinha, and D. Thirumalai, "Universality of distribution of tumor mutation burden - a biomarker for the tumor evolution and disease risk." https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.03.03.482775.
Sumit Sinha, Vishaal Krishnan, and L. Mahadevan, "Optimal control of interacting active particles on complex landscapes" arXiv:2311.17039.
Abdul Nasser, Sumit Sinha, and D. Thirumalai, "On the role of mechanical feedback in synchronous to asynchronous transition during embryogenesis" arXiv:2311.18101.
Xin Li, Sumit Sinha, T. R. Kirkpatrick, D. Thirumalai, "Topological transitions, turbulent-like motion and long-time-tails driven by cell division in biological tissues." arXiv:2211.14410.
Ongoing
Sumit Sinha, Xin Li, Abdul N Malmi-Kakkada, Himadri Samanta and D. Thirumalai, "Self-generated stress regulates the structural and dynamical properties of growing tissues."
Sumit Sinha and D. Thirumalai, "Aging in growing tissues: Emergence of a collective time-scale."
Commentary & Book Chapters
Sumit Sinha and D. Thirumalai, "Rigidity Percolation in Embryo Morphogenesis: Physics meets Biology (Again)." Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics (Link)
Sumit Sinha and Cheng-Zhong Zhang, "Determining complete chromosomal haplotypes by mLinker" as a book chapter for Methods in Molecular Biology, Springer.