2026

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Compaction of Chromatin Domains Regulates Target Search Times of Proteins

Shuvadip Dutta, Adarshkrishnan R, Ranjith Padinhateeri, Mithun K Mitra

PLoS Computational Biology, Accepted (2026) DOI

Genome Organisation Biological Physics Polymer Physics Highlighted

2025

COMET-LF: a compartmental model of dynamics of infection, disease, and elimination strategies for lymphatic filariasis

Indrajit Ghosh, Suchita Nath-Sain, Shoummo Sen Gupta, Chhavi Pant Joshi, Tanu Jain, Swaminathan Subramanian, Souvik Banerjee, Mithun K Mitra

BMC Infectious Diseases, 25(1), 1-16 (2025) DOI

Health and Disease

The Role of Lamins in Genome Organisation: A Modelling Perspective

Shuvadip Dutta, Mithun K Mitra

Lamins in Genome Organization and Diseases, 201 (2025) DOI

Genome Organisation Biological Physics Health and Disease

Navigating the Multiverse: a Hitchhiker's guide to selecting harmonization methods for multimodal biomedical data

Murali Aadhitya Magateshvaren Saras, Mithun K Mitra, Sonika Tyagi

Biology Methods and Protocols, 10(1), bpaf028 (2025) DOI

Health and Disease
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Liquid–liquid phase separation of lamin drives altered chromatin organization in cardiomyopathic mutations of lamin A

Subhradip Nath, Shuvadip Dutta, Shreyasi Dey Sarkar, Duhita Sengupta, Mithun K Mitra, Kaushik Sengupta

Nucleic Acids Research, 53(14), gkaf615 (2025) DOI

Genome Organisation Health and Disease Polymer Physics Highlighted

2024

Theoretical analysis of cargo transport by catch bonded motors in optical trapping assays

Naren Sundararajan, Sougata Guha, Sudipto Muhuri, Mithun K. Mitra

Soft Matter, 20(3), 566-577 (2024) DOI

Intracellular Transport Non-equilibrium Physics Biological Physics
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Nature of barriers determines first passage times in heterogeneous media

Moumita Dasgupta, Sougata Guha, Leon Armbruster, Dibyendu Das, Mithun K. Mitra

Soft Matter, 20 (42), 8353-8362 (2024) DOI

Non-equilibrium Physics Statistical Mechanics Highlighted

2023

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Multivalent binding proteins can drive collapse and reswelling of chromatin in confinement

Sougata Guha, Mithun K. Mitra

Soft Matter, 19(1), 153-163 (2023) DOI

Genome Organisation Polymer Physics Statistical Mechanics Highlighted
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Predicting scale-dependent chromatin polymer properties from systematic coarse-graining

Sangram Kadam, Kiran Kumari, Vinoth Manivannan, Shuvadip Dutta, Mithun K. Mitra, Ranjith Padinhateeri

Nature Communications, 14(1), 4108 (2023) DOI

Genome Organisation Polymer Physics Biological Physics Highlighted

Dynamic modelling predicts lactate and IL-1β as interventional targets in metabolic-inflammation-clock regulatory loop in glioma

Shalini Sharma, Pruthvi Gowda, Kirti Lathoria, Mithun K Mitra, Ellora Sen

Integrative Biology, 15, zyad008 (2023) DOI

Health and Disease Biological Physics
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Anomalous diffusion of E. coli under microfluidic confinement and chemical gradient

Md Ramiz Raza, Jijo Easo George, Savita Kumari, Mithun K. Mitra, Debjani Paul

Soft Matter, 19(34), 6446 (2023) DOI

Biological Physics Non-equilibrium Physics Highlighted

Unequal Lives: A Sociodemographic Analysis of COVID-19 Transmission and Mortality in India

Soham Dibyachintan, Priyanka Nandy, Kalyan Das, Sai Vinjanampathy, Mithun K. Mitra

Public Health, 214, 133-139 (2023) DOI

Health and Disease

2022

Pseudocleavage furrows restrict plasma membrane-associated PH domain in syncytial Drosophila embryos

Sameer Thukral, Bivas Kaity, Debasmita Mitra, Bipasha Dey, Pampa Dey, Bhavin Uttekar, Mithun K. Mitra, Amitabha Nandi, Richa Rikhy

Biophysical Journal, 121(12), 2419-2435 (2022) DOI

Biological Physics Intracellular Transport Developmental Biology

2021

Novel mechanism for oscillations in catchbonded motor-microtubule complexes

Sougata Guha, Mithun K. Mitra, Ignacio Pagonabarraga, Sudipto Muhuri

Biophysical Journal, 120(18), 4129-4136 (2021) DOI

Biological Physics Statistical Mechanics

2020

Cyto-architecture constrains a photoactivation induced tubulin gradient in the syncytial Drosophila embryo

Sameer Thukral, Bivash Kaity, Bipasha Dey, Swati Sharma, Amitabha Nandi, Mithun K. Mitra, Richa Rikhy

The International Journal of Developmental Biology, 64, 285-297 (2020) DOI

Intracellular Transport Biological Physics Developmental Biology
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A Lamin-Associated Chromatin Model for Chromosome Organization

Ajoy Maji, Jahir A. Ahmed, Subhankar Roy, Buddhapriya Chakrabarti, Mithun K. Mitra

Biophysical Journal, 118(12), 3041-3050 (2020) DOI

Genome Organisation Polymer Physics Biological Physics Highlighted

An India-specific compartmental model for Covid-19: projections and intervention strategies by incorporating geographical, Infrastructural and response heterogeneity

Sanit Gupta, Sahil Shah, Sumit Chaturvedi, Pranav Thakkar, Parvinder Solanki, Soham Dibyachintan, Sandeepan Roy, MB Sushma, Adwait Godbole, Noufal Jaseem, Pradumn Kumar, Sucheta Ravikanti, Aritra Das, Giridhara R Babu, Tarun Bhatnagar, Avijit Maji, Mithun K. Mitra, Sai Vinjanampathy

arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.14392 (2020) DOI

Health and Disease
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The accidental ally: Nucleosomal barriers can accelerate cohesin mediated loop formation in chromatin

Ajoy Maji, Ranjith Padinhateeri, Mithun K. Mitra

Biophysical Journal, 119(11), 2316-2325 (2020) DOI

Genome Organisation Biological Physics Highlighted

Capturing complexity: Challenges in modelling COVID-19 in India

Priyanka Nandy, Soham Dibyachintan, Sai Vinjanampathy Mithun K. Mitra

Indian Academy of Sciences Conference Series, 3(1), 189-191 (2020) DOI

Health and Disease

2019

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Dynein catch bond as a mediator of codependent bidirectional cellular transport

Palka Puri, Nisha Gupta, Sameep Chandel, Supriyo Naskar, Anil Nair, Abhishek Chaudhuri, Mithun K. Mitra, Sudipto Muhuri

Physical Review Research, 1(2), 023019 (2019) DOI

Intracellular Transport Biological Physics Statistical Mechanics Highlighted

2018

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Reprogramming, oscillations and transdifferentiation in epigenetic landscapes

Bivash Kaity, Ratan Sarkar, Buddhapriya Chakrabarti, Mithun K. Mitra

Scientific Reports, 8(1), 7358 (2018) DOI

Biological Physics Statistical Mechanics Highlighted

Diffusion dynamics and steady states of systems of hard rods on a square lattice

Sougata Patra, Dibyendu Das, R. Rajesh, Mithun K. Mitra

Physical Review E, 97(2), 022108 (2018) DOI

Non-equilibrium Physics Statistical Mechanics

2016

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Effect of catch bonding on transport of cellular cargo by dynein motors

Anil Nair, Sameep Chandel, Mithun K. Mitra, Sudipto Muhuri, Abhishek Chaudhuri

Physical Review E, 94, 032403 (2016) DOI

Intracellular Transport Biological Physics Highlighted

2014

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Delayed self-regulation and time-dependent chemical drive leads to novel states in epigenetic landscapes

Mithun K. Mitra, Paul R. Taylor, Christopher J. Hutchison, Tom C. B. McLeish, Buddhapriya Chakrabarti

Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 11(100), 20140706 (2014) DOI

Statistical Mechanics Biological Physics Highlighted

Boundary induced phase transition with stochastic entrance and exit

Mithun K. Mitra, Sakuntala Chatterjee

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, 2014(10), P10019 (2014) DOI

Non-equilibrium Physics Statistical Mechanics

2013 and Earlier

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Theory of volume transition in polyelectrolyte gels with charge regularization

Jing Hua, Mithun K. Mitra, Murugappan Muthukumar

The Journal of Chemical Physics, 136(13), 134901 (2012) DOI

Polymer Physics Statistical Mechanics Highlighted

Thermodynamic behaviour of two-dimensional vesicles revisited

Mithun K. Mitra, Gautam I. Menon, R. Rajesh

The European Physical Journal E, 35(4), 1-8 (2012) DOI

Statistical Mechanics Biological Physics

Theory of volume transitions in polyelectrolyte gels

Mithun K. Mitra, Murugappan Muthukumar

MRS Online Proceedings Library Archive, 1418 (2012) DOI

Polymer Physics Statistical Mechanics
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Monte Carlo study of the molecular mechanisms of surface-layer protein self-assembly

Christine Horejs, Mithun K. Mitra, Dietmar Pum, Uwe B. Sleytr, Murugappan Muthukumar

The Journal of Chemical Physics, 134(12), 03B616 (2011) DOI

Polymer Physics Biological Physics Highlighted

Long-time growth kinetics of first order phase transitions in the presence of a boundary layer

Mithun K. Mitra, Murugappan Muthukumar

The Journal of Chemical Physics, 134(4), 044901 (2011) DOI

Polymer Physics Non-equilibrium Physics Statistical Mechanics

Asymptotic behaviour of convex and column-convex lattice polygons with fixed area and varying perimeter

Mithun K. Mitra, Gautam I. Menon, R. Rajesh

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, 2010, P07029 (2010) DOI

Statistical Mechanics
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Theory of spinodal decomposition assisted crystallization in binary mixtures

Mithun K. Mitra, Murugappan Muthukumar

The Journal of Chemical Physics, 132(18), 184908 (2010) DOI

Polymer Physics Non-equilibrium Physics Highlighted

Asymptotic behavior of inflated lattice polygons

Mithun K. Mitra, Gautam I. Menon, R. Rajesh

Journal of Statistical Physics, 131(3), 393-404 (2008) DOI

Statistical Mechanics

Phase transitions in pressurized semiflexible polymer rings

Mithun K. Mitra, Gautam I. Menon, R. Rajesh

Physical Review E, 77(4), 041802 (2008) DOI

Statistical Mechanics Polymer Physics