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Publications

 
Since IISc (2022 onwards):
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2026

1. Simanta Kalita, Pratibha Kumari, Arka Som, Srishti Mandal, Resmi V. Nair, Saswata Bandyopadhyay, Sushma Rao, Sudha Kumari, and Sarit S. Agasti. Optically switchable CLEAR probes enable rapid, biocompatible, and high-efficiency fluorophore exchange for ultra-plex, high-resolution immunofluorescence imaging. Chemical Science. DOI:DOI: 10.1039/D5SC08599C

 
2025

1. Srishti Mandal and Sudha Kumari. Tubulin with a twist: Acetylated highways at the immune synapse. The Journal of Cell Biology.

2.  A Dey, SZ Khiangte, H Colin-York, M Fritzsche, S Sarkar, Sudha Kumari.  Actin waves guide an outward movement of microclusters in the lymphocyte immunological synapse. 2026. EMBO Reports. Volume 27, Issue 4, pages 834 - 852





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News coverage of the article: 

India Today: https://www.indiatoday.in/science/story/indian-team-reveals-how-cells-make-life-saving-decisions-inside-the-body-2853178-2026-01-16

OncoDaily: https://oncodaily.com/voices/sudha-kumari-434407

Miragenews: https://www.miragenews.com/actin-powers-t-cell-response-1603450/

EurekAlert: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1112956

The Times of India: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/actin-waves-help-t-cells-reuse-key-receptors-iisc-study/articleshow/126581874.cms

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2023

1. Sayanti Acharya and Sudha Kumari. Actin’ off: PD-1 suppresses F-actin rearrangement and degranulation at the immunological synapse. Science Signaling.

Link: https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/scisignal.adl3956

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2. Srishti Mandal, Mariane Melo, Pavlo Gordiichuk, Sayanti Acharya, Yeh-Chuin Poh, Na Li, Aereas Aung, Eric L. Dane, Darrell J. Irvine, and Sudha Kumari.  WASP facilitates tumor mechanosensitivity in T lymphocytes.

eLife: https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/91854#tab-content
BiorXiv: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.02.560434v1
 

3. Sandeep Kumar, Sayanti Acharya, Mahalakshmi Karthikeyan, Priyobrata Biswas, and Sudha Kumari. Limitations and potential of immunotherapy in ovarian cancer. Frontiers in Immunology.
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Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10803592/

 
2022

1. Sudha Kumari, Wolfgang W. Schamel, Balbino Alarcon. Editorial: Cytoskeletal Regulation of Immune Response. Frontiers in Immunology.

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