Publications

Gehrels, E. W.; Chakrabortty, B*.; Perrin, M.-E.; Merkel, M.; Lecuit, T. Curvature Gradient Drives Polarized Tissue Flow in the Drosophila Embryo. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 2023, 120 (6), e2214205120. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2214205120

Chakrabortty, B.; Willemsen, V.; de Zeeuw, T.; Liao, C.-Y.; Weijers, D.; Mulder, B.; Scheres, B. A Plausible Microtubule-Based Mechanism for Cell Division Orientation in Plant Embryogenesis. Curr. Biol. 2018, 28 (19), 3031-3043.e2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.07.025

Chakrabortty, B.; Blilou, I.; Scheres, B.; Mulder, B. M. A Computational Framework for Cortical Microtubule Dynamics in Realistically Shaped Plant Cells. PLOS Comput. Biol. 2018, 14 (2), e1005959. https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005959

Cao, Y. X.; Chakrabortty, B.; Barker, G. C.; Mehta, A.; Wang, Y. J. Bridges in Three-Dimensional Granular Packings: Experiments and Simulations. Europhys. Lett. 2013, 102 (2), 24004. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1209/0295-5075/102/24004

Chakrabortty, B.; Mehta, A. A Two-Species Model of a Two-Dimensional Sandpile Surface: A Case of Asymptotic Roughening. Granul. Matter 2012, 14 (4), 523–529. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10035-012-0350-3

*Equal Contribution

Research Highlights

Simulation of microtubule dynamics reveals strong influence of cell shape on the formation cortical array in plants: https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/image.pcbi.v14.i02

Scientists shed new light on fundamental hundred-year-old question: https://amolf.nl/news/scientists-shed-new-light-on-fundamental-hundred-year-old-question

Ph.D. Thesis

Plant cortical microtubule dynamics and cell division plane orientation: https://library.wur.nl/WebQuery/wurpubs/521210