2025

12
Learning via mechanosensitivity and activity in cytoskeletal networks
Deb S Banerjee, Martin J Falk, Margaret L Gardel, Aleksandra M Walczak, Thierry Mora, Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan
PRX Life (2025)
Key Publication
arXiv →
13
Excitability and travelling waves in renewable active matter
Abhishek M, Ankit Dhanuka, Deb S Banerjee, Madan Rao
Physical Review E 112, 045433 (2025)
Journal →
11
Design principles of organelle size control: from single to multi-organelle systems
Deb S Banerjee, Shiladitya Banerjee
Current Opinion in Cell Biology 95: 102533 (2025)
Review

2024

10
Interplay of condensate material properties and chromatin heterogeneity governs nuclear condensate ripening
Deb S Banerjee, Tafadzwa Chigumira, Rachel M Lackner, Josiah C Kratz, David M Chenoweth, Shiladitya Banerjee, Huaiying Zhang
eLife 13: RP101777 (2024)
Key Publication
PMC →
9
Growth-induced collective bending and kinetic trapping of cytoskeletal filaments
Deb S Banerjee, Simon L Freedman, Michael P Murrell, Shiladitya Banerjee
Cytoskeleton 81 (8), 409–419 (2024)

2023

8
Catalytic growth in a shared enzyme pool ensures robust control of centrosome size
Deb S Banerjee, Shiladitya Banerjee
eLife 12: RP92203 (2023)
Key Publication
eLife →
7
Membrane Tension Induces F-actin Reorganization and Flow in a Biomimetic Model Cortex
R Sakamoto, Deb S Banerjee, V Yadav, S Chen, M Gardel, C Sykes, S Banerjee, MP Murrell
Communications Biology 6, 325 (2023)

2022

6
Active ploughing through a compressible viscoelastic fluid: Unjamming and emergent non-reciprocity
Jyoti P Banerjee, Rituparno Mandal, Deb S Banerjee, Shashi Thutupalli, Madan Rao
Nature Communications 13, 4533 (2022)
5
Emergence and maintenance of variable-length actin filaments in a limiting pool of building blocks
Deb S Banerjee, Shiladitya Banerjee
Biophysical Journal 121 (12) (2022)
4
Size regulation of multiple organelles competing for a limiting subunit pool
Deb S Banerjee, Shiladitya Banerjee
PLoS Computational Biology 18 (6) (2022)
Key Publication
PLoS →

2017–2020

3
Size-regulated symmetry breaking in reaction-diffusion models of developmental transitions
Jake C Scoones, Deb S Banerjee*, Shiladitya Banerjee
Cells 9 (7), 1646 (2020)
* Equal contribution
MDPI →
2
Filament Nucleation Tunes Mechanical Memory in Active Polymer Networks
Vikrant Yadav, Deb S Banerjee, A Pasha Tabatabai, David R Kovar, Taeyoon Kim, Shiladitya Banerjee, Michael P Murrell
Advanced Functional Materials 29 (49), 1905243 (2019)
1
Actomyosin pulsation and flows in an active elastomer with turnover and network remodelling
Deb S Banerjee, Akankshi Munjal, Thomas Lecuit, Madan Rao
Nature Communications 8, 1121 (2017)
Key Publication
Nature →

Under Review

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Contractile to extensile transitions and mechanical adaptability enabled by activity in cytoskeletal structures
Alexandra Lamtyugina, Deb S Banerjee*, Yuqing Qiu, Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan
Under review · PNAS
Under Review* Equal contribution