INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH KOLKATA

... towards excellence in science

An Autonomous Institution, Under the Ministry of Education, Government of India

Mohit Prasad

Professor
Dept: Biological Sciences (DBS)
E-mail: mohitprasad [at] iiserkol.ac.in

All Publications:

  1. Saha, Banhisikha; Acharjee, Sayan; Ghosh, Gaurab; Dasgupta, Purbasa and Prasad, Mohit. 2023."Germline protein, Cup, non-cell autonomously limits migratory cell fate in Drosophila oogenesis." Plos Genetics, 19, 1-30
  2. Sahu, Aresh; Karmakar, Susnata; Halder, Sudipta; Ghosh, Gaurab; Acharjee, Sayan; Dasgupta, Purbasa; Ghosh, Ritabrata; Deshpande, Girish and Prasad, Mohit. 2021."Germline soma communication mediated by gap junction proteins regulates epithelial morphogenesis." PLOS genetics, 17(8), 1-32
  3. Prasad, Mohit. 2021."Teach, train and test: Laboratory exercises using flies.." J Biosci . , 46, 1-2
  4. Ghosh, B; Karmakar, Susnata; Prasad, Mohit and Mandal, Atin K. 2021."Praja1 ubiquitin ligase facilitates degradation of polyglutamine proteins and suppresses polyglutamine-mediated toxicity." Mol Biol Cell ., E20, 0747-
  5. Bar, Sudipta; Prasad, Mohit and Datta, Rupak. 2018."Neuromuscular degeneration and locomotor deficit in a Drosophila model of mucopolysaccharidosis VII is attenuated by treatment with resveratrol.." Disease Models and Mechanisms, 11, 1-11
  6. Sharma, Aditi; Halder, Sudipta; Felix, Martina; Nisaa, Khairun; Deshpande, Girish and Prasad, Mohit. 2018."Insulin signaling modulates border cell movement in Drosophila oogenesis.." Development, 145, 1-8
  7. Sahu, Aresh; Ghosh, Ritabrata; Deshpande, Girish and Prasad, Mohit. 2017."A Gap Junction Protein, Inx2, Modulates Calcium Flux to Specify Border Cell Fate during Drosophila oogenesis.." PLOS GENETICS, 13, 1006542
  8. Cai, D; Dai, W; Prasad, Mohit; Luo, J; Gov, N S and Montell, D J. 2016."Modeling and analysis of collective cell migration in an in vivo three-dimensional environment.." PNAS, 113, E2134
  9. Felix, Martina; Chayengia, Mrinal; Ghosh, Ritabrata; Sharma, Aditi and Prasad, Mohit. 2015."dPak3 regulates apical-basal polarity in migrating border cells during Drosophila oogenesis. ." Development, 142, 3692


  1. Felix, Martina and Prasad, Mohit. 2022." Mapping Asymmetry in Collective Cell Migration: Lessons from Border Cells in Drosophila Oogenesis", "Methods Molecular Biology: Cell polarity Signaling". Nature Springer, ISBN: 9781071620359
  2. Prasad, Mohit; Wang, Xiaobo; He, Li and Montell, Denise. 2011." Border cell migration: a model system for live imaging and genetic analysis of collective cell movement.", "Methods in Molecular Biology". Humana Press, ISBN: 9781617792076