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Sujoy Ganguly
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Bass 331
Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Yale University
New Haven, CT 06511 · USA
Phone: +01 (203) 432-6590
Fax: +01 (203) 432-2628
E-mail: [email protected]
WWW: medicine.yale.edu/lab/howard/
Research
Interests
Self-organization, hydrodynamics, transport phenomena, active fluids, motility.
Education
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Ph.D. Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
November 2008-July 2012
• Dissertation Topic: “Cytoplasmic Streaming in Drosophila melanogaster”
• Advisor: Raymond E. Goldstein
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ USA
B.Sc., Physics
B.Sc. Mathematics
May, 2008
May, 2008
Honors and
Awards
Cambridge Overseas Trust Scholar
EMBO Long-Term Fellowship
Academic
Experience
University of Arizona. Department of Physics Tucson, Arizona, USA
Undergraduate Research Assistant
May 2004-July 2006
Studied the flow fields generated byVolvox and their relationship to nutrient uptake.
Research Assistant
October 2007 - October 2008
Studied the transition to collective behavior by motile bacteria.
Research Consultant
March 2012 - June 2012
Measured and studied the flow fields generated by motile bacteria.
University of Cambridge DAMTP Cambridge, UK
Visiting Research Assistant
Measurements of flow fields generated by algae.
Graduate Student
Cytoplasmic Streaming in Drosophila oocytes
Teaching
Experience
University of Cambridge DAMTP Cambridge, UK
Course: Mathematical Biology
MPI-CBG Dresden, Germany
Course: Physics for Biologists
Publications
2008-2011
2013-2014
October 2006 - September 2007
November 2008 - January 2012
2009 - 2011
2013
1. Cristian A. Solari, Sujoy Ganguly, John O. Kessler, Richard E. Michod, and Raymond E. Goldstein. Multicellularity and the functional interdependence of motility and molecular transport. PNAS 103 1353-1358 (2006)
2. Martin B. Short, Cristian A. Solari, Sujoy Ganguly, Thomas R. Powers, John O. Kessler.
Flows driven by flagella of multicellular organisms enhance long-range molecular
transport. PNAS 103 8315-8319 (2006)
3. Cristian A. Solari, Knut Drescher, Sujoy Ganguly, John O. Kessler, Richard E. Michod, and
Raymond E. Goldstein. Flagellar Phenotypic Plasticity of Volvocalean Algae Correlates with Péclet Number Journal of the Royal Society Interface 8, 1409-1417 (2011)
4. Luis H. Cisneros, John O. Kessler, Sujoy Ganguly, and Raymond E. Goldstein. Dynamics
of Swimming Bacteria: Transition to Directional Order at High Concentration
Physical Review E 83, 061907 (2011)
5. Knut Drescher, Jörn Dunkel, Luis H. Cisneros, Sujoy Ganguly, and Raymond E. Goldstein
Fluid Dynamics and Noise in Bacterial Cell-Cell and Cell-Surface Scattering PNAS
108, 10940-10945 (2011)
6. Sujoy Ganguly, Lucy S, Williams, Isabel M. Palacios, Raymond E. Goldstein Cytoplasmic
streaming in Drosophila oocytes is a readout of kinesin activity and correlates
with the architecture of the microtubule cytoskeleton PNAS 109 (38), 15109-15114
(2012)
7. Maria Skamagki, Krzysztof B. Wicher, Agnieszka Jedrusik, Sujoy Ganguly, and Magdalena
Zernicka-Goetz. Asymmetric Localization of Cdx2 mRNA during the First CellFate Decision in Early Mouse Development. Cell Reports. 3(2), 442457 (2013)
8. Lucy S. Williams ,Sujoy Ganguly , Phillipe Loiseau, Bing Fu Ng, and Isabel M. Palacios. The
auto-inhibitory domain and the ATP-independent microtubule-binding region of
Kinesin Heavy Chain are major functional domains for transport in the Drosophila
germline. Development. 141(1):176-86 (2014)
Conference
Presentations
1. C. Solari, S. Ganguly, J.O. Kessler, R. Michod, and R.E. Goldstein. Multicellularity and
the Functional Interdependence of Motility and Molecular Transport 2006 APS
March Meeting. Baltimore, Maryland.
2. Martin Short Cristian Solari Sujoy Ganguly John Kessler Raymond Goldstein FlagellaDriven Flows Circumvent Diffusive Bottlenecks that Inhibit Metabolite Exchange
2006 APS March Meeting. Baltimore, Maryland.
3. S. Ganguly, L.H. Cisneros, J.O. Kessler, and R.E. Goldstein. Transition to Organized
Behavior in Suspensions of Concentrated Bacteria 61st Annual Meeting of the APS
Division of Fluid Dynamics. San Antonio, Texas. November 2008
4. S. Ganguly, L.S. Williams, I.M. Palacios, and R.E. Goldstein Measurement of Cytoplasmic
Streaming in Drosophila melanogaster. 63rd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid
Dynamics. Long Beach, California. November 2010
5. J.O. Kessler, L.H. Cisneros, S. Ganguly, and R.E. Goldstein Acceleration of swimming
bacteria at “zero” Reynolds number 63rd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid
Dynamics. Long Beach, California. November 2010
6. K. Drescher, J. Dunkel, L.H. Cisneros, S. Ganguly, and R.E. Goldstein Noise constricts the
Hydrodynamic Horizon of Bacteria 63rd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid
Dynamics. Long Beach, California. November 2010
7. L.H. Cisneros, J.O. Kessler, S. Ganguly, and R.E.Goldstein Collisional low velocity phase
of concentrated rod-shaped bacteria 63rd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid
Dynamics. Long Beach, California. November 2010
8. L.S. Williams, S. Ganguly, R.E. Goldstein, and I.M. Palacios Experimental and theoretical analyses of the mechanism and function of Kinesin-1-dependent cytoplasmic
flows. 2011 American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting. Denver, Colorado. December
2011
9. L.S. Williams, I. Peset, S. Ganguly, R.E. Goldstein and I.M. Palacios Analysis of Kinesin-1
in vivo Biochemical Society / Wellcome Trust Focused Meeting - Cellular cytoskeletal motor proteins. Hinxton, Cambridge, UK. March 2011
10. S. Ganguly, L.S. Williams, I.M. Palacios, and R.E. Goldstein Cytoplasmic Streaming in
Drosophila melanogaster. 56th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society. San Diego, California. February 2012
11. S. Ganguly, H. Bowne-Anderson, X. Liang, R. Pszczolinski, Ö. Demir, and Jonathon Howard
The Complexity of Larval Class IV Sensory Neurons in Drosophila is Accounted for
by a Set of Statistical Branching Rules 58th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society.
San Francisco, California. February 2014
12. X. Liang, R. Pszczolinski, S. Ganguly, H. Bowne-Anderson, Ö. Demir, and Jonathon Howard
Statistical Consraings on Dendritic Branching Morphology in Drosophila Class IV
Sensiry Neurons 58th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society. San Francisco, California.
February 2014