Postdoctoral Fellow

About me: I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, where I work in B Lab on tumor growth modeling. Previously, I held a postdoctoral position at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, Ohio State University, focusing on computational modeling of NK and T cell signaling networks to understand immune responses to infection and cancer.

Research Interests: I earned my MSc in Physics from IIT Kanpur and a Ph.D. in Physical Sciences from IISER Kolkata, where I studied self-organization in tissue development and biofilm formation. My research interests lie at the intersection of computational biology, immunology, stochastic processes, and statistical physics, with a focus on developing predictive models for tumor progression and immune dynamics.

• INSPIRE Scholar (2010): Awarded the Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE) scholarship by the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India.
•  INSPIRE Fellowship (2016): Received fellowship from the Ministry of Science & Technology, Department of Science & Technology, Government of India.
• Qualified National Eligibility Test (NET-LS): Cleared the Life Sciences NET exam conducted by the Government of India in 2014.
• Guest Scientist Invitation (2019): Invited to visit and give a seminar at the Quantitative Life Sciences Section, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy.
• Travel Grant – SERB, India (2019): Received full financial support from the Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB), Government of India to attend the 17th International Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology, University of Trieste, Italy.
• Travel Grant – CSIR, India (2020): Awarded travel grant by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India, to attend the 64th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society, San Diego, USA.
• Poster Competition Award (2024): Received Scientific Award at the 23rd Annual Trainee Research Day, College of Medicine, Ohio State University.

• D. Mukhopadhyay and R. De, Aggregation dynamics of active cells on non-adhesive substrate, Physical Biology, 16(4), 046006 (2019).
• D. Mukhopadhyay and R. De, Growth kinetics and power laws indicate distinct mechanisms of cell-cell interactions in the aggregation process, Biophysical Journal, 121(3), 481–490 (2022).
• A. Bera, D. Mukhopadhyay, K. Goswami, P. Ghosh, R. De, and P. De, Fatty acid-based polymeric micelles to ameliorate amyloidogenic disorders, Biomaterials Science, 10, 3466–3479 (2022).
• Saeed Ahmad+, D. Mukhopadhyay+, R. Grewal+, C. Jayaprakash, J. Das, Spatial statistics of submicron size clusters of activating and inhibitory Natural Killer cell receptors in the resting state regulate early time signal discrimination, bioRxiv (preprint).

• D. Mukhopadhyay and R. De, “Understanding tissue behaviour incorporating different kind of cellular interactions”, 17th International Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology, University of Trieste, Italy (2019).
• D. Mukhopadhyay and R. De, ‘‘Understanding the underlying mechanisms of pattern formation and cellular aggregation”, Conference on Nonlinear Systems and Dynamics (CNSD), IIT Kanpur, India (2019).
• D. Mukhopadhyay, ‘‘Understanding Tissue Behaviour Incorporating Different Kinds of Cellular Interactions”, Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, San Diego, USA (2020).
• D. Mukhopadhyay and R. De, ‘‘Understanding the underlying mechanism of pattern formation and cellular aggregation”, APS March Meeting, USA (2021).