PUBLICATIONS

The Skull and the Cast, published in Global Nineteenth Century Studies Journal.

To read the full article Click here

Be Aware of Droplets and Bubbles

———-published as a graphic research paper in Annals of Internal Medicine (December, 2020)

———Featured in Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) as one of the best graphic Medicines 2020.

United Brothers: The Story of The First Scientific Society in Colonial India

Published in December 2020 Newsletter, Danish Cultural Institute, India

FEATURE IN NATURE INDIA

Science, History and Comics, Nature India, Indigenus, 29 June, 2019

SCIENCE WRITING AND OTHER REPORTS (IN NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINES)

SELECTED ARTICLES

•      “Germ Of an Idea”: The Telegraph, KnowHow, October 8, 2018

(Link: https://www.telegraphindia.com/science/nobel-past-surgeon-used-immunotherapy-for-cancer-in-1890/cid/1671227)

•     “Cancer’s fire CONNECT”: The Telegraph, KonwHow, September 17, 2018

(Link: https://www.telegraphindia.com/science/cancer-s-fireconnect-259690?ref=science-ft-stry)

• “Hawking was a Neuroscientist” Multidimension Magazine, May 27, 2018

(Link: https://multidimension.fr/magazine/hawking-was-a-neuroscientist/)

• “Still bright, in the forest of the night”: The Telegraph, February 25, 2018

(Link: https://www.telegraphindia.com/states/west-bengal/still-bright-in-the-forest-of-the-night-211105)

• “Hoghearts”: The Telegraph, KnowHow, September 4, 2017

(Link: https://www.telegraphindia.com/1170904/jsp/knowhow/story_170617.jsp)

• “Where the mind is without fear”: The Telegraph, Knowhow, October 30, 2017

(Link: https://www.telegraphindia.com/science/where-the-mind-is-without-fear-181821)

• “Next door, a sunken land”: The Telegraph, November 12, 2017

(Link: https://www.telegraphindia.com/states/west-bengal/nextdoor-a-sunken-land-185273)

HISTORY OF SCIENCE

I collaborated with Nikolas Thode Jensen from the Danish National Archive. He is a senior archivist there and author of the book “For the Health of the Enslaved: slaves, medicine and power in the Danish West Indies, 1803-1848′.  Niklas has published a paper on the Danish colony in South India and the establishment of the first Pharmaceutical laboratory by Samuel Benjamin Knoll. The article has appeared in SIDDEN SAXONovember 2019 issue. To read my graphic essay on the Danish Science in India before it became a British colony click here.

• “Ki kore Holo” (How did it happen): Weekly published column essaying history of experimental cell biology, biochemistry, and biophysics in vernacular (Anandabazar Patrika, Scool Edition).

 

COMICS

•  Cafe Mythbusting: This is an discussion  in comics form about the genetic basis for neuropsychiatric disorders and the effect of environmental factors on them! A spat on Facebook led to an interesting discussion between four friends on mental health issues. The meandering conversation covers the possible genetic basis for a heightened risk of developing a mental health disorder, ranging from mitochondrial dysfunctions to epigenetics, and how science has just scratched the surface of this sensitive and multivariable issue. Published byThe Life of Science.

• “Scien-Tale with Grandpa”: History of Royal Society, the birth of experimental science and Robert Hooke (Weekly published in The Telegraph in School).

 

• “Screw “: (Story of a boy and his robot friend screw; daily published in Anandabazar Patrika, School Edition).

• #Me Too in Science (https://multidimension.fr/magazine/science-comics/ )

PUBLICATIONS (IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS)-CANCER BIOLOGY

2017

• Manna A, Banerjee S, Khan P, Bhattacharya A, Das T. Contribution of nuclear events in generation and maintenance of cancer stem cells: revisiting chemo-resistance. The Nucleus. 2017. 60(2): 121-135 (Link)

 2016

• Mukherjee S, Manna A, Mazumdar M, Bhattacharjee P, Saha S, Jana D, Chakraborty S, Guha D, Sarkar D K, Sa G, Das T. Non-migratory tumorigenic intrinsic cancer stem cells ensure breast cancer metastasis by generation of CXCR4⁺migrating cancer stem cells. Oncogene. 2016. 35: 4937-4948, doi:10.1038/onc.2016.26. (PubMed)

• Khan P, Manna A, Mukherjee S, Saha S, Das T. Aspirin inhibits epithelial to mesenchymal transition and migration of k-Ras expressing non-small lung carcinoma cells by down regulating E-cadherin repressor Slug. BMC Cancer. 2016. 16: 39, doi: 10.1186/s12885-016-2078-7. (PubMed)

 

• Saha S, Mukherjee S, Khan P, Kajal K, Mazumdar M, Manna A, Mukherjee S, De S, Jana D, Sarkar D, Das T. Aspirin suppresses the acquisition of chemo-resistance in breast cancer by disrupting an NFκB-IL6 signaling axis responsible for the generation of cancer stem cells. Cancer Res. 2016, 76(7):2000-12, doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-15-1360. (PubMed)

2014

• Chakraborty S, Mazumdar M, Mukherjee S, Bhattacharjee P, Adhikary A, Manna A, Chakraborty S, Khan P, Sen A, Das T. Restoration of p53/miR-34a regulatory axis decreases survival advantage and ensures Bax-dependent apoptosis of non-small cell lung carcinoma cells. FEBS Letters. 2014, 588(4):549-559, doi: 10.1016/j.febslet.2013.11.040. (PubMed)

• S Mohanty, S Saha, D Md S Hossain1, A Adhikary, S Mukherjee, A Manna, S Chakraborty, M Mazumdar, P Ray, K Das, J Chakraborty, G Sa and T Das . ROS-PIASc cross talk channelizes ATM signaling from resistance to apoptosis during chemosensitization of resistant tumors. Cell Death and Disease. 2014, 5:e 1021, doi:  1038/cddis.2013.534

• Adhikary A, Chakraborty S, Mazumdar M, Ghosh S, Mukherjee S, Manna A, Mohanty S, Nakka KK, Joshi S, De A, Chattopadhyay S, Sa G, Das T. Inhibition of Epithelial to Mesenchymal transition by E-cadherin up-regulation via repression of Slug transcription and inhibition of E-cadherin degradation: Dual role of SMAR1 in breast cancer cells. J Biol Chem. 2014, 289(37): 25431-25444,doi: 10.1074/jbc.M113.527267 (PubMed)

• Chakrabort S, Das K, Saha S, Mazumdar M, Manna A, Chakraborty S, Mukherjee S, Khan P, Adhikary A, Mohanty S, Chattopadhyaya S, Biswas S, Sa G, Das T. Nuclear matrix protein SMAR1 represses c-Fos mediated HPV18 E6 transcription through alteration of chromatin histone de-acetylation. J Biol Chem. 2014, 289(42): 29074–29085, doi: 10.1074/jbc.M114.564872. (PubMed)

• Mukherjee S, Mazumdar M, Chakraborty S, Manna A, Saha S, Khan P, Bhattacharjee P, Guha D, Adhikary A, Mukherjee S, Das T. Curcumin inhibits breast cancer stem cell migration by amplifying the E-cadherin/ β-catenin negative feedback loop. Stem Cell Research & Therapy. 2014. 5(5): 116, doi: 10.1186/scrt506. (PubMed)

2013

• Hossain DMS*, Panda A*, Manna A, Mohanty S, Bhattacharjee P, Saha T, Chakraborty S, Kar KR, Das T, Chatterjee S, Sa G. FoxP3 Acts as a Cotranscription Factor with STAT3 in Tumor-Induced Regulatory T Cells. Immunity. 2013, 39(6):1057-1069. doi: 10.1016/j.immuni.2013.11.005. (*Authors contributed equally). (PubMed)

• Mazumdar M*, Adhikary A*, Chakraborty S, Mukherjee S, Manna A, Mohanty S, Ray P, Dutta A, Saha S, Chattopadhyay S, Banerjee S, Chakraborty J, Ray AK, Sa G and Das T. Targeting RET to induce medullary thyroid cancer cell apoptosis: An antagonistic interplay between PI3K/Akt/Bad pathway and death receptor-independent p38-MAPK/caspase-8 pathway. Apoptosis. 2013, 18(5): 589-604, doi: 10.1007/s10495-013-0803-0. (*Authors contributed equally). (PubMed)

BOOK CHAPTERS

• Mukherjee S, Saha S, Manna A, Mazumdar M, Chakraborty S, Paul S and Das T. Targeting cancer stem cells by phytochemicals: A multi-modal approach to colorectal cancer. Current Colorectal Cancer Reports. 10:431-41, 2014. (Link)

• Mukherjee S, Manna A, Majumdar M and DasT. Matrix metalloproteinases in cancer metastasis: An unsolved mystery. Role of Proteases in Cellular Dysfunction (Ed: Dhalla NS and Chakrabarti S) Springer Publishing Company, NY, USA, Part II, Chapter 10: pp 187-212, 2013. (Link)