Tirtha Das Banerjee

The paper compares proximal-distal gene expression patterns in leg and wing development across Diptera and Lepidoptera, finding conserved regulatory networks and lineage-specific changes.

This paper introduces two open-source robots for automated multi-step mRNA imaging workflows, enabling precise buffer exchanges, temperature control, and scalable execution of multiplex-FISH experiments.

This study investigates the role of chrna3 in alcohol response using zebrafish, finding that chrna3 mutants show increased alcohol tolerance and altered behavior.

This study shows that chrna5 mutations in zebrafish increase preference for nicotine and alcohol and alter behavior and physiology related to substance dependence.

The paper identifies a novel Hox gene promoter that drives temperature-mediated phenotypic plasticity in satyrid butterflies.

The paper introduces RAMFISH, a workflow for spatial mRNA profiling in tissues, and validates it on butterfly and zebrafish samples.

The paper identifies a micro-RNA, mir-193, as the effector gene responsible for melanic wing color polymorphisms in Lepidoptera, showing its conserved function across species.

The paper identifies spatial and temporal regulation of Wnt signaling pathway members in butterfly eyespot development and shows their functional roles.

The paper identifies Antennapedia and optix as regulators of metallic silver wing scale development and cell shape in Bicyclus anynana butterflies using single-cell analysis of crispant mutants.

The paper shows the reuse of an ancestral insect wing venation gene-regulatory network in patterning the complex eyespot rings of butterflies.

The paper identifies new gene expression domains in butterfly venation patterning genes and proposes evolutionary mechanisms for simplified venation in Drosophila.

The paper shows that mutations in different exons of Distal-less (Dll) cause distinct eyespot phenotypes, which are accurately modeled by reaction-diffusion mechanisms.