Buddho Chakrabarti

Professor
213 Cardwell Hall
buddho@k-state.edu
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Ph.D. Indian Institute of Science, 2004
M.S. Jawaharlal Nehru Vishvavidyalaya, 1997

Research Area

Theoretical Soft, Condensed, and Biological Matter Physics

My research expertise and interests lie at the interface of (1) soft-matter physics, and (2) biological physics. My research objectives on soft materials are application focused and addresses industrial challenges such as controlling surface migration of small molecules in complex formulations, predicting properties of confined soft matter, and quantitative modelling of corrosion protection of polymerised coatings. My biophysics research objectives are curiosity driven, with a long-term goal of developing clinical applications to address current health challenges. These include modelling the mechanics of bacterial cell walls – aimed to tackle the antimicrobial resistance of pathogens, chromosome organisation in cell nucleus and epigenetic regulation – to address abnormalities in genome packaging that lead to human pathologies, and biological phase separation – to address formation and functioning of membraneless organelles and associated pathologies. As a theoretician I collaborate extensively with experimentalists across academia and industry.

Recent Selected Publications

Phase behavior of polymer dispersed liquid crystals, comparison between mean-field theory, and coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations, WS Fall, HB Kolli, B Mukherjee, and B Chakrabarti, Soft Matter, 20, 7735 (2024) [link]

Emergence of selectivity and specificity in a coarse-grained model of the nuclear pore complex with sequence agnostic FG NUPs, MK Patel, B Chakrabarti, and AS Panwar Phys Chem Chem Phys, 13, 32824 (2023) [link]

Thermodynamics of droplets undergoing liquid-liquid phase separation, S Biswas, B Mukherjee, and B Chakrabarti Soft Matter, 18, 8117 (2022) [link]

Wetting thermodynamics of a three-phase system in contact with an external surface, B Mukherjee, and B Chakrabarti; Macromolecules, 55, 3886 (2022) [link]

The Molecular Architecture of the Gram-Positive Bacterial Cell Wall, L Pasquina-Lemonche, J Burns, RD Turner, S Kumar, R Tank, N Mullin, JS Wilson, B Chakrabarti, P Bullough, SJ Foster, JK Hobbs, Nature, 582, 294 (2020) [link]