Name Manoj Gopalakrishnan Designation Assistant Professor Group Phone +91-44-2257 4894 Room HSB 224 Research Interests Theoretical Biophysics, Stochastic Processes, Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics Email manoj at physics.iitm.ac.in Personal Home Page www.physics.iitm.ac.in/~manoj

Recent Publications

• M. Gopalakrishnan and B. S. Govindan
  'Optimization strategies of chromosome search-and-capture by microtubules: exact analytical results for a single fixed target'
  arxiv: 0904.0111 (2009, under review)


• M. Reneaux and M. Gopalakrishnan
  'From random to directed motion: Understanding chemotaxis in E.Coli within a simplified model'
  arxiv: 0812.4583 (2009, submitted to proceedings of IPCMB2008, Kolkata)


• B. S. Govindan, M. Gopalakrishnan and D. Chowdhury
  'Length control of microtubules by depolymerizing molecular motors'
  EPL 83 40006 (2008)


• S. Ghosh, M. Gopalakrishnan and K. Forsten-Williams
  'Self-consistent theory of reversible ligand binding to a spherical cell surface'
  Phys. Biol. 4(4) 344-354 (2007)


• M. Gopalakrishnan P. Borowski, F. Julicher and M. Zapotocky
  'Response and fluctuations of a two-state signaling module with feedback'
  Phys. Rev. E 76 021904-921 (2007)


• M. Gopalakrishnan K. Forsten-Williams, M. A. Nugent and U. C. Tauber
  'Effect of receptor coupling on ligand dissociation: Theory and simulations'
  Biophys. J 89 3686-3700 (2005)


• M. Gopalakrishnan K. Forsten-Williams, T. R. Cassino, L. Pedro, T. E. Ryan and U. C. Tauber
  'Ligand dissociation: Self-consistent mean-field theory and numerical simulations applied to SPR studies'
  Eur. Biophys. J. 34 943-958 (2005)