Shiladitya Banerjee

The paper identifies tricellular zipping as a mechanism for epithelial junction remodeling, driven by calcium and actomyosin pulses, and shows its role in cell packing across Xenopus, mouse, and Drosophila embryos.

The paper develops a whole-cell model to show how bacterial cell geometry and diffusion limit biosynthetic efficiency and growth rate.

The paper shows that PAR-3 proteins form stable clusters during anoxia in C. elegens embryos, preserving polarity information for rapid reactivation after metabolic arrest.

This study shows that local anisotropic stress and cytoskeletal organization, rather than actomyosin purse-string contraction, drive cell shape and motion during hindbrain neuropore closure in mouse embryos.

This paper introduces a vertex model of epithelial tissues with a mechanosensitive tension-remodeling rule, showing how tissues store mechanical memory and adapt their properties through learning-like processes.

This paper uses reinforcement learning to design adaptive antibiotic treatment strategies that overcome phenotypic heterogeneity in bacterial populations.

This paper proposes a model where anisotropic tissue growth arises from feedback between cell polarity, mechanical pressure, and division rates, showing how proliferation symmetry breaking is controlled by cellular properties.

The paper develops a computational model to study how physical traits influence cell competition, finding that stiffer cells outcompete softer ones and that reduced stiffness with decreased contact inhibition creates super-competitive mutants.

This study shows bacteria adapt to fluctuating environments using power-law memory, linking cellular dynamics to learning-like behavior through a theoretical model and experimental validation.

The paper develops a single-cell model to explain non-exponential bacterial growth patterns by linking gene expression, proteome allocation, and mass growth.

The paper develops a theory of dynamic energy allocation to model bacterial growth and morphology under varying environmental conditions, capturing experimentally observed relationships and predicting nutrient-dependent trade-offs.

The paper shows that mechanical and biochemical feedbacks combine to create complex contractile oscillations during cytokinesis.

This study develops a model showing that rapid actin filament growth leads to kinetic trapping of bent filaments, influenced by subunit availability and crosslinking.

The paper investigates how condensate material properties and chromatin heterogeneity influence nuclear condensate growth, revealing two physical mechanisms and a quantitative theory to explain these dynamics.

The paper develops a theoretical framework to predict bacterial survival under antibiotic stress by linking gene expression tradeoffs to physiological states and survival outcomes.

The paper develops a model to explain how bacteria dynamically regulate cell size and proteome in fluctuating nutrient environments through trade-offs between biomass accumulation and division.

The paper shows that the geometry of the hindbrain neuropore in mouse embryos determines asymmetric closure dynamics through cell-mediated mechanisms.

The paper develops a whole-cell model to show how ribosome and division protein synthesis balance controls bacterial cell size and growth under nutrient and translational perturbations.

The paper investigates how myosin II dynamics and mechanical properties influence cell shape changes and biomechanical coupling during retinal lens development in Drosophila.