Publications

Preprint/Under review

  1. Samuel Khiantge Zomawia, Aheria Dey, Marco Fritzsche, Huw Colin York, Sumantra Sarkar, and Sudha Kumari. “Actin waves guide an outward movement of microclusters in the lymphocyte immunological synapse.” https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.20.660656v1. Under review in EMBO Reports.

  2. Phanindra Dewan, Soumyadeep Mondal, and Sumantra Sarkar. “Oscillation death by mechanochemical feedback.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.19655 (2025). Under review in Phys. Rev. Lett.

  3. Phanindra Dewan, and Sumantra Sarkar. “A potpourri of results on molecular communication with active transport.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.19411 (2024). Under review in Phys. Rev. E
  4. Sumantra Sarkar, Ethan Romero-Severson, and Thomas Leitner. “Migration coupled with recombination explains disparate HIV-1 anatomical compartmentalization signals.” bioRxiv (2023): 2023-04.

Peer-reviewed publications

  1. Amrapali Datta, Phanindra Dewan, Aswin Anto, Tanya Chhabra, Tanishq Tejaswi, Sindhu Muthukrishnan, Akshar Rao, Sumantra Sarkar, and Medhavi Vishwakarma. “Differential interfacial tension between oncogenic and wild-type populations forms the mechanical basis of tissue-specific oncogenesis in epithelia.” eLife 14:RP106893, bioRxiv (2025): 2025-03.
  2. Soumyadeep Mondal, Pankaj Popli, and Sumantra Sarkar. “Coarsening dynamics of aster defects in model polar active matter.” Soft Matter 21.1 (2025): 77-86.
  3. Saurav G. Varma, Argha Mitra, and Sumantra Sarkar. “Self-diffusion is temperature independent on active membranes.” Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 26.35 (2024): 23348-23362
  4. Sharaj Kunjar, Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin, Helge Giese, Pranav Minasandra, Sumantra Sarkar, Mohit Kumar Jolly, and Nico Gradwohl. “Link updating strategies influence consensus decisions as a function of the direction of communication.” Royal Society Open Science 10, no. 6 (2023): 230215.
  5. Sumantra Sarkar, Md Zulfikar Ali, and Sandeep Choubey. “Efficacy of information transmission in cellular communication.” Physical Review Research 5.1 (2023): 013092.
  6. Sumantra Sarkar and Debanjan Goswami. “Lifetime of actin-dependent protein nanoclusters.” Biophysical Journal 122.2 (2023): 290-300.

  7. C Neale, N Hengartner, S Sarkar, S Gnanakaran, C Lopez Bautista, “Components for the MuMMI software release.” Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

  8. Ingólfsson, Helgi I., Chris Neale, Timothy S. Carpenter, Rebika Shrestha, Cesar A. López, Timothy H. Tran, Tomas Oppelstrup et al. “Machine learning–driven multiscale modeling reveals lipid-dependent dynamics of RAS signaling proteins.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences119, no. 1 (2022): e2113297119.

  9. Sumantra Sarkar. “Concentration dependence of diffusion-limited reaction rates and its consequences.” Physical Review X 10.4 (2020): 041032.

  10. Van A Ngo., Sumantra Sarkar, Chris Neale, and Angel E. Garcia. “How anionic lipids affect spatiotemporal properties of KRAS4B on model membranes.” The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 124, no. 26 (2020): 5434-5453
  11. Sumantra Sarkar and Angel E. Garcia. “Presence or absence of ras dimerization shows distinct kinetic signature in ras-raf interaction.” Biophysical Journal 118.8 (2020): 1799-1810
  12. Sumantra Sarkar and Jeremy L. England. “Design of conditions for self-replication.” Physical Review E 100.2 (2019): 022414.
  13. Sumantra Sarkar, Elan Shatoff, Kabir Ramola, Romain Mari, Jeffrey Morris, and Bulbul Chakraborty. “Shear-induced organization of forces in dense suspensions: signatures of discontinuous shear thickening.” In EPJ Web of Conferences, vol. 140, p. 09045. EDP Sciences, 2017.
  14. Sumantra Sarkar, Dapeng Bi, Jie Zhang, Jie Ren, Robert P. Behringer, and Bulbul Chakraborty. “Shear-induced rigidity of frictional particles: Analysis of emergent order in stress space.” Physical Review E 93, no. 4 (2016): 042901.
  15. Sumantra Sarkar and Bulbul Chakraborty. “Shear-induced rigidity in athermal materials: a unified statistical framework.” Physical Review E 91, no. 4 (2015): 042201.
  16. Sumantra Sarkar, Dapeng Bi, Jie Zhang, R. P. Behringer, and Bulbul Chakraborty. “Origin of rigidity in dry granular solids.” Physical Review Letters 111, no. 6 (2013): 068301.
  17. Tripti Bameta, Dipjyoti Das, Sumantra Sarkar, Dibyendu Das, and Mandar M. Inamdar. “Broad-tailed force distributions and velocity ordering in a heterogeneous membrane model for collective cell migration.” Europhysics Letters 99, no. 1 (2012): 18004.
  18. Sumantra Sarkar and P. Parmananda. “Synchronization of an ensemble of oscillators regulated by their spatial movement.” Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science 20, no. 4 (2010).

 

Thesis

  1. Sarkar, Sumantra. Origin of rigidity in athermal materials. Brandeis University, 2016.