Dr Pushpita Ghosh
Assistant Professor Grade I (Chemistry)
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In peer-reviewed journals:

(28) Rohit Khandoori, Kaustav Mondal and Pushpita Ghosh*, "Resource limitation and population fluctuation drive spatiotemporal orders in microbial communities",  (2024) (Accepted in Soft Matter).

(27) Kaustav Mondal, Palash Bera, and Pushpita Ghosh*, "Spatiotemporal dynamics and emergent ordering in a mixture of morphologically distinct bacteria having different cell motility",  (2023) (Under preparation).

Published

(26) Tarpan Maiti and Pushpita Ghosh*, "Unravelling diverse spatiotemporal orders in chlorine dioxide-iodine-malonic acid reaction-diffusion system through circularly polarized electric field and photo-illumination",  (2023) (Journal of Chemical Physics) 159, 174902 (2023).

(25) Palash Bera, Abdul Wasim, and Pushpita Ghosh*, "Interplay of cell Motility and the self-secreted extracellular polymeric substances driven depletion effect in a growing bacterial colony",  Soft Matter, 19 (42), 8136-8149 (2023)  .

(24) Souvik Ghosh,  Chandranath Ghosh,  Ayan Chatterjee, Palash Bera, Dileep Mampallil, Pushpita Ghosh  and Dibyendu Das*, “Dual Enzyme-powered Chemotactic Cross β Amyloid based Functional Nanomotors”,  Nature Communications, 14, 5903 (2023)

(23)  Palash Bera, Abdul Wasim and Pushpita Ghosh*, A mechanistic understanding of biofilm morphogenesis: Coexistence of mobile and sessile aggregates  Soft Matter 19, 1034-1045  (2023).

(22)  Tarpan Maiti, Pushpita Ghosh*,  Deciphering electric field induced spatial pattern formation in the photosensitive chlorine-dioxide iodine malonic acid reaction and the Brusselator reaction-diffusion systems, Journal of Chemical Physics, 157, 224907  (2022)

(21) Jayakrishna Koneru, Dube Dheeraj Prakashchand, Namita Dube, Pushpita Ghosh, Jagannath Mondal* ,“Spontaneous transmembrane pore formation by short-chain synthetic peptide”, Biophysical Journal 120, 4557-4574 (2021).

(20) Palash Bera, Abdul Wasim, Jagannath Mondal and Pushpita Ghosh* ,“Mechanistic underpinning of cell aspect ratio-dependent emergent collective motions in swarming bacteria”, Soft Matter 17, 7322-7331 (2021).

(19) Pushpita Ghosh* and Deb Shankar Ray* , “Emergent traveling waves in spatially extended system with finite memory of transport”, J. Indian Chem. Soc. 98(5) , 100072 (2021). (Invited article: SI - Professor D C Mukherjee Festschrift)

(18) Pushpita Ghosh*, “Thermodiffusion induced traveling and shock waves in a colloidal solution”, Physical Review E 102, 012606 (2020).

(17) Joel Tchoufag, Pushpita Ghosh, Connor B. Pogue, Beiyan Nan, and Kranthi K. Mandadapu* “Mechanisms for bacterial gliding motility on soft substrates” Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, USA 116(50), 25087-25096 (2019).

(16) Pushpita Ghosh*, “Emergent spatiotemporal instabilities in reactive spatially-extended systems by thermodiffusion” Physical Review E 100, 042217 (2019).

(15) Mrinmoy Mukherjee and Pushpita Ghosh*, “Growth mediated autochemotactic pattern formation in self-propeling bacteria” Physical Review E 97, 012413 (2018).

(14) Pushpita Ghosh* and Herbert Levine, “Morphodynamics of a growing microbial colony driven by cell death ” Physical Review E 96, 052404 (2017).

(13) Navdeep Rana, Pushpita Ghosh* and Prasad Perlekar*, “Spreading of nonmotile bacteria on a hard agar plate: Comparison between agent-based and stochastic simulations”, Physical Review E 96, 052403 (2017).

(12) Pushpita Ghosh, Jagannath Mondal, Eshel Ben-Jacob and Herbert Levine*, “Mechanically-driven phase-separation in a growing bacterial colony”, Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, USA 112(17) E2166-E2173 (2015). (Highlighted in phys.org).

(11) Pushpita Ghosh, Eshel Ben-Jacob and Herbert Levine*, “Modeling cell-death patterning during biofilm formation”, Physical Biology 10, 066006 (2013).

(10) Debojyoti Das, Pushpita Ghosh, and Deb Shankar Ray*, “Marginal states in a cubic autocatalytic reaction”, Journal of Chemical Physics 135, 124104 (2011).

(9) Pushpita Ghosh and Deb Shankar Ray*, “Amplitude equations for breathing spiral waves in a forced reaction-diffusion system”, Journal of Chemical Physics 135, 104112 (2011).

(8) Pushpita Ghosh*, “Control of the Hopf-Turing transition by time-delayed global feedback in a reaction-diffusion system”, Physical Review E 84, 016222 (2011).

(7) Pushpita Ghosh, Shrabani Sen, Syed Shahed Riaz, and Deb Shankar Ray*, “Controlling birhythmicity in a self-sustained oscillator by time-delayed feedback”, Physical Review E 83, 036205 (2011).

(6) Shrabani Sen, Pushpita Ghosh, and Deb Shankar Ray*, “Reaction-diffusion systems with stochastic time delay in kinetics”, Physical Review E 81, 056207 (2010).

(5) Pushpita Ghosh, Shrabani Sen, and Deb Shankar Ray*, “Reaction-Cattaneo systems with fluctuating relaxation time”, Physical Review E 81, 026205 (2010).

(4) Shrabani Sen, Pushpita Ghosh, Syed Shahed Riaz, and Deb Shankar Ray*, “Spatial periodicity induced by a chemical wave train”, Physical Review E 81, 017101 (2010).

(3) Shrabani Sen, Pushpita Ghosh, Syed Shahed Riaz, and Deb Shankar Ray*, “Time-delay-induced instabilities in reaction-diffusion systems”, Physical Review E 80, 046212 (2009).

(2) Pushpita Ghosh, Shrabani Sen, Syed Shahed Riaz, and Deb Shankar Ray*, “Galerkin analysis of light-induced patterns in the chlorine dioxide-iodine-malonic acid reaction-diffusion system”, Physical Review E 79, 056216 (2009).

(1) Pushpita Ghosh, Shrabani Sen, and Deb Shankar Ray*, “Nonlinear dynamics of finite perturbation: Collapse and revival of spatial patterns”, Physical Review E 79, 016206 (2009).