Short Curriculum Vitae

• Postdoctoral Fellow 2010 March - present, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques (LPTMS), Université Paris-Sud, France and Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany.
• FEBS Short term Fellow 2009 October - 2009 November, Université Paris-Sud, France.
• Postdoctoral Fellow 2008 May - 2010 February, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany.
• Ph.D. 2003 July - 2008 May, Ph.D. student, Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi, India.  

Publications

1. Low degree metabolites explain essential reactions and enhance modularity in biological networks, Areejit Samal, Shalini Singh, Varun Giri, Sandeep Krishna, N. Raghuram and Sanjay Jain, BMC Bioinformatics, 7:118 (2006) .
2. A universal power law and proportionate change process characterize the evolution of metabolic networks, Shalini Singh, Areejit Samal, Varun Giri, Sandeep Krishna, N. Raghuram and Sanjay Jain, Eur. Phys. J. B, 57:75-80 (2007).
3. The regulatory network of E. coli metabolism as a Boolean dynamical system exhibits both homeostasis and flexibility of response, Areejit Samal and Sanjay Jain, BMC Systems Biology, 2:21 (2008) .
4. Conservation of high-flux backbone in alternate optimal and near-optimal flux distributions of metabolic networks, Areejit Samal, Syst. Synth. Biol., 2: 83-93 (2008). 
5. Preferential attachment renders an evolving network of populations robust against crashes, Areejit Samal and Hildegard Meyer-Ortmanns, Physica A, 388(8): 1535-1545 (2009).
6. Genotype networks in metabolic reaction spaces, Areejit Samal, João F. Matias Rodrigues, Jürgen Jost, Olivier C. Martin and Andreas Wagner, BMC Systems Biology, 4:30 (2010).
7. Challenges in experimental data integration within genome-scale metabolic models, Pierre-Yves Bourguignon, Areejit Samal, François Képès, Jürgen Jost and Olivier C. Martin, Algorithms for Molecular Biology, 5:20 (2010).
8. STDP-driven networks and the C. elegans neuronal network, Quansheng Ren, Kiran M. Kolwankar, Areejit Samal and Jürgen Jost, Physica A, 389(15):3900-3914 (2010).
9. Cloning and Targeted Disruption of Two Lipopolysaccharide Biosynthesis Genes, kdsA and waaG, of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 by Site-Directed Mutagenesis, Deepak Perumal, Kishore R. Sakharkar, Thean Hock Tang, Vincent T.K. Chow, Chu Sing Lim, Areejit Samal, Norio Sugiura, Meena K. Sakharkar, Journal of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, 19(1):169-179 (2010).
10. Targeting Multiple Targets in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 using Flux Balance Analysis of a Reconstructed Genome-Scale Metabolic Network, Deepak Perumal, Areejit Samal, Kishore R. Sakharkar and Meena K. Sakharkar, Journal of Drug Targeting, 19(1):1-13(2011).
11. Randomizing genome-scale metabolic networks, Areejit Samal and Olivier C. Martin, PLoS One, 6(7):E22295 (2011).