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Pintu Patra

Research Interests

• Microbial Population Dynamics
• Collective Cell Migration
• Stochastic Modeling
• Quantitative Image Analysis

Short CV

since November 2017

Post doctoral researcher in the group of Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schwarz at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Heidelberg, Germany

Janaury 2015 - October 2017

Post doctoral researcher in the group of Prof. Dr. Oleg A Igoshin at the Department of Bioengineering, Rice Unviersity, USA

August 2010 - October 2014

PhD and short Postdoc in the group of Prof. Dr. Stefan Klumpp at Max Plack Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany

August 2008 - July 2010

MSc Physics at Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India. Master's thesis in the group of Prof. Dr. Dr. Manoj Gopalakrishnan

Publications

• Collective migration reveals mechanical flexibility of malaria parasites
  P Patra, K Beyer, A Jaiswal, A Battista, K Rohr, F Frischknecht, US Schwarz
  accepted(2022)
• A particle-based computational model to analyse remodelling of the red blood cell cytoskeleton during malaria infections
  J Jäger, P Patra, CP Sanchez, M Lanzer, US Schwarz
  Preprint on BioRxiv (2021)
• KAHRP dynamically relocalizes to remodeled actin junctions and associates with knob spirals in Plasmodium falciparum‐infected erythrocytes
  CP Sanchez, P Patra, SYS Chang, C Karathanasis, L Hanebutte, N Kilian, M Cyrklaff, M Heilemann, US Schwarz, M Kudryashev, M Lanzer
  Molecular Microbiology (2021)
• Role of bacterial persistence in spatial population expansion
  P Patra, S Klumpp
  Physical Review E 104 (3), 034401 (2021)
• Microtubule number and length determine cellular shape and function in Plasmodium
  B Spreng, H Fleckenstein*, P Kübler*, C Di Biagio*, M Benz*, P Patra*, US Schwarz, Marek Cyrklaff, Friedrich Frischknecht (*equal contributions)
  The EMBO journal 38 (15), e100984 (2019)
• Systematic analysis of the Myxococcus xanthus developmental gene regulatory network supports posttranslational regulation of FruA by C‐signaling
  S Saha, P Patra, OA Igoshin, L Kroos
  Molecular microbiology, 111(6), 1732-1752 (2019)
• Mechanism of Kin-Discriminatory Demarcation Line Formation between Colonies of Swarming Bacteria
  P Patra, CN Vassallo, D Wall, OA Igoshin
  Biophysical journal 113 (11), 2477-2486 (2017)
• Colony Expansion of Socially Motile Myxococcus xanthus Cells Is Driven by Growth, Motility, and Exopolysaccharide Production
  P Patra, K Kissoon, I Cornejo, HB Kaplan, OA Igoshin
  PLoS Comput Biol 12 (6), e1005010 (2016)
• Emergence of phenotype switching through continuous and discontinuous evolutionary transitions
  P Patra, S Klumpp
  Physical biology 12 (4), 046004 (2015)
• Phenotypically heterogeneous populations in spatially heterogeneous environments
  P Patra, S Klumpp
  Physical Review E (Rapid Communications) 89 (3), 030702 (2014)
• Population Dynamics of Bacterial Persistence
  P Patra, S Klumpp
  PLoS ONE 8 (5), e62814 (2013)
• Interplay between population dynamics and drug tolerance of Staphylococcus aureus persister cells
  S Lechner, P Patra, S Klumpp, R Bertram
  Journal of molecular microbiology and biotechnology 22 (6), 381-391 (2012)

Teaching activities

• Spring semester 2018, Tutor for Theoretical BioPhysics, University of Heidelberg
• Autumn semester 2012, Tutor for Introduction to Stochastic Modeling -II,University of Potsdam
• Spring semester 2012, Tutor for Introduction to Stochastic Modeling -I, University of Potsdam

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