Research Articles (†co-corresponding author) 

• S. Bhattacharyya†, S. Lopez, A. Singh, R. M. Harshey, Flagellar motility is mutagenic,  PNAS 121 (41) e2412541121 (2024) (Link) 

• S. Bhattacharyya†, N. Bhattarai, D. M. Pfannenstiel, B. Wilkins, A. Singh, R. M. Harshey, A heritable iron memory enables decision-making in Escherichia coli. PNAS 120 (48), e2309082120 (2023). (Link) 

• S. Bhattacharyya†, M. Bhattacharyya, D. M. Pfannenstiel, A. K. Nandi, Y. Hwang, K. Ho, R. M. Harshey, Efflux-linked accelerated evolution of antibiotic resistance at a population edge. Molecular cell 82, 4368-4385 e4366 (2022). (Link)

• S. Bhattacharyya, D. M. Walker, R. M. Harshey, Dead cells release a ‘necrosignal’ that activates antibiotic survival pathways in bacterial swarms. Nature communications 11, 4157 (2020). (Link)

• P. Agrawal, R. Varada, S. Sah, S. Bhattacharyya, U. Varshney, Species-Specific Interactions of Arr with RplK Mediate Stringent Response in Bacteria. Journal of bacteriology 200,  (2018). (Link)

• S. A. Ayyub, D. Dobriyal, R. A. Shah, K. Lahry, M. Bhattacharyya, S. Bhattacharyya, S. Chakrabarti, U. Varshney, Coevolution of the translational machinery optimizes initiation with unusual initiator tRNAs and initiation codons in mycoplasmas. RNA biology 15, 70-80 (2017). (Link)

• S. Bhattacharyya, U. Varshney, Evolution of initiator tRNAs and selection of methionine as the initiating amino acid. RNA biology 13, 810-819 (2016). (Link)

Review/Perspective Articles 

• S. Bhattacharyya & R. M. Harshey, Sacrifice for the Swarm, in The Biologist. The Royal Society of Biology, (2021), vol. 68, pp. 20-22. (Link)

• S. Shetty, S. Bhattacharyya, U. Varshney, Is the cellular initiation of translation an exclusive property of the initiator tRNAs? RNA biology 12, 675-680 (2015). (Link)

• S. Bhattacharyya, Do bacteria age? Resonance 17, 347-364 (2012). (Link)