Arup Chakraborty Research Group

    Recognition is an important aspect of biological systems, which is accomplished by strongly coupled interactions of many different molecules. I am interested in finding out the key ingredients that make this physical process possible from a theoretical standpoint.

    As a simplest example of recognition processes, I studied how mobile sites contained in a 3-dimensional medium reorganize themselves in response to interactions with disordered heteropolymers, and how the pattern formation depends upon the sequence and other characteristics of heteropolymer chains.

    I am currently working on problems related to the cellular recognition theory, the immunological synapse formation model, developed by other members of this group. Equilibrium and non-equilibrium analysis of this model gives us further understanding of the theory, and helps us in determining the future application and implementation of this model.