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Ambarish Kunwar
Assistant Professor |
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B.Sc.(Honours): Banaras Hindu University, 1999
M.Sc.: Banaras Hindu University, 2001
Ph.D.: IIT Kanpur, 2006
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Email: akunwar @ iitgn.ac.in
Phone: +91-79- 3245 4996
Fax: +91-79-23972622 |
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| Research Interest
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- Biophysics
- Non-equilibrium Statistical Physics
- Computational Modeling
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| Work Experience |
- Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (Dec. 2011 to present)
- Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Neurobiology, Physiology & Behavior, University of California Davis (2008-2011)
- Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California Irvine (2006-2008)
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| Selected Recent Publications
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- Ambarish Kunwar*, Suvranta K Tripathy*, Jing Xu, Michelle K. Mattson, Preetha Anand, Roby Sigua, Michael Vershinin, Richard J. McKenney, Clare C. Yu, Alexander Mogilner† and Steven P. Gross†, "Mechanical Stochastic Tug-of-war Models Cannot Explain Bi-directional Lipid droplet Transport", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 108, 18960, † Equal Authorship, 2011.
- Richard J. McKenney*, Micahel Vershinin*, Ambarish Kunwar, Richard B. Vallee† and Steven P. Gross†, "LIS1 and NudE Induce a Persistent Dynein Force-Producing State", Cell, Vol. 141, 304 (2010) *,† Equal Authorship, On cover of Cell-April 16, 2010 issue
- Ambarish Kunwar and Alexander Mogilner, "Robust Transport by Multiple Motors with Non-linear Force-Velocity Relations and Stochastic Load Sharing", Physical Biology, Vol. 7, 016012, 2010.
- Ambarish Kunwar, Michael Vershinin, Jing Xu and Steven P. Gross, "Stepping, Strain Gating, and an Unexpected Force-Velocity Curve for Multiple-Motor-Based Transport", Current Biology, Vol. 18, 1173, 2008.
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Complete List of Publications
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Applications are invited for the Post Doctoral Fellows
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