Biophysics
Faculty career @ University of Miami
PUBLICATIONS
22. Melissa Ruszczyk^, Patrick M. Kiel*, Santhan Chandragiri^, Cedric M. Guigand, Johnnie Xia**, Owen Brown**, Brian K. Haus, Andrew C. Baker, Margaret W. Miller, Prannoy Suraneni, Chris Langdon, and
Vivek N. Prakash#
FlumeX: A modular flume design for laboratory-based marine fluid-substrate studies
HardwareX (under review) (2024)
^Postdoc mentee, *Graduate student mentee, **Undergraduate student mentee, #Corresponding author
21. Alexandra T. Lion, Sophie M. Bodine, Kelley R. McCutcheon, Mayank Ghogale, Santhan Chandragiri^,
Deema Abayawardena, Bikram D. Shrestha*, Abigail Descoteaux, Kathryn Alvarez**, J’nesse A. Balkman**, Breelyn Cocke**, Athula H. Wikramanayake, Jennifer Schlezinger, Joyce Y. Wong, Vivek N. Prakash, and Cynthia A. Bradham
PFAS Compounds PFOA and Gen X are Teratogenic to Sea Urchin Embryos
Developmental Biology (under review) (2024)
^Postdoc mentee, *Graduate student mentee, **Undergraduate student mentee
20. Rieko Asai#, Shubham Sinha*#, Vivek N. Prakash**, and Takashi Mikawa**
Cellular flows initiate left-right patterning prior to laterality gene expression in amniotes
P.N.A.S. 122 (6) e2414860122 (2025)
*Graduate student mentee, #Equal contribution
**Corresponding authors
19. Setareh Gooshvar**, Gopika Madhu*, Melissa Ruszczyk^, and Vivek N. Prakash#
Non-bilaterians as Model Systems for Tissue Mechanics.
Integrative and Comparative Biology, 63, 6, 1442-1454 (2023)
**Undergraduate student mentee, *Graduate student mentee, ^Postdoctoral mentee
#Corresponding author
17. Patrick M. Kiel*, and Vivek N. Prakash**
Coral physiology: Going with the ciliary flow.
Current Biology, 32(19), pp.R998-R1000 (2022)
*Graduate student mentee
**Corresponding author
16. Mia J. Konjikusic, Chanjae Lee, Yang Yue, Bikram D. Shrestha*, Ange M. Nguimtsop, Amjad Horani, Steven Brody, Vivek N. Prakash, Ryan S. Gray, Kristen J. Verhey, and John B. Wallingford
Kif9 is an active kinesin motor required for ciliary beating and proximodistal patterning of motile axonemes
Journal of Cell Science, 136 (5): (2023)
*Graduate student mentee
Fluid Mechanics
15. Arnold J. T. M. Mathijssen*, Maciej Lisicki*, Vivek N. Prakash*, Endre J. L. Mossige*
Culinary fluid mechanics and other currents in food science,
Reviews of Modern Physics, 95, 025004 (2023)
*Corresponding authors
14. Fuller, Gerald G., Maciej Lisicki, Arnold J.T.M. Mathijssen, Endre J.L. Mossige, Rossana Pasquino, Vivek N. Prakash,
and Laurence Ramos. Kitchen flows: Making science more accessible, affordable, and curiosity driven
Physics of Fluids, 34, no. 11: 110401 (2022)
Art + Science
13. Jenna Efrein, Carolyn (Jack) Delli-Santi**, and Vivek N. Prakash
Glass, Marine Biology, & Physics
Glass Art Society Journal, Pages 49-51 (2023)
**Undergraduate student mentee
-- Featured in Physics Magazine 'Arts and Culture':
"Modeling Tissue Mechanics with Molten Glass", Physics 17, 55 (2024)
Our poster entry for APS DSOFT "Gallery of Soft Matter" Competition 2024 [web link]
Postdoctoral Research: Organismal Biophysics
12. Vivek N. Prakash, M. S. Bull and M. Prakash
Motility induced fracture reveals a ductile to brittle crossover in the epithelial tissues of a simple animal
Nature Physics, 17, 504–511 (2021)
11. W. Gilpin, Vivek N. Prakash, and M. Prakash
Dynamic vortex arrays created by starfish larvae
Physical Review Fluids, 2, 090501 (2017)
10. W. Gilpin, Vivek N. Prakash, and M. Prakash
Flowtrace: simple visualization of coherent structures in biological fluid flows
Journal of Experimental Biology, 220, 3411-3418 (2017)
Download Flowtrace here: www.flowtrace.org
Cover of Journal of Experimental Biology (Volume 220, 2017) [web link]
9. W. Gilpin, Vivek N. Prakash, and M. Prakash
Vortex arrays and entangled cilia underly the feeding vs. swimming tradeoff in sea star larvae
Nature Physics, 13, 380-386 (2017)
8. W. Gilpin, Vivek N. Prakash, and M. Prakash
Reply to 'Boundary effects on currents around ciliated larvae'
Nature Physics, 13, 521-522 (2017)
- News & Views: V. I. Fernandez & R. Stocker, Hydrodynamics: Modus vivendi, Nature Physics (2016) [web link]
- APS/DFD ‘Milton van Dyke Award’ (Video) - 2016 [web link]
- ‘First place’, Nikon Small World in Motion Competition - 2016 [web link]
- ‘Image of distinction’, Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition - 2016 [web link]
- Media: Stanford News, New York Times, Nature News, Phys.org, Live Science, Science Daily, EurekAlert, Futurity, Popular Science, Business Insider, Daily mail, CBS News, Smithsonian, Vox, FYFD
Graduate Research:
Fluid Mechanics Multi-phase Turbulent Flows
7. Vivek N. Prakash, J. M. Mercado, L. van Wijngaarden, E. Mancilla, Y. Tagawa, D. Lohse, and C. Sun
Energy spectra in turbulent bubbly flows
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 791, 174-190 (2016)
6. V. Mathai, Vivek N. Prakash, J. Brons, C. Sun and D. Lohse
Wake-driven dynamics of finite-sized buoyant spheres in turbulence
Physical Review Letters, 115, 124501 (2015)
5. Y. Tagawa, I. Roghair, Vivek N. Prakash, M. van Sint Annaland, H. Kuipers, C. Sun, and D. Lohse
The clustering morphology of freely rising deformable bubbles
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 721, R2 (2013)
4. Vivek N. Prakash, Y. Tagawa, E. Calzavarini, J. M. Mercado, F. Toschi, D. Lohse, and C. Sun
How gravity and size affect the acceleration statistics of bubbles in turbulence
New Journal of Physics, 14, 105017, (2012)
- New Journal of Physics ‘Research Highlights’ collection - 2012, 2013 [web link]
- New Journal of Physics focus issue on ‘Dynamics of Particles in Turbulence’ [web link]
- New Journal of Physics Video Abstract Prize - 2013 [web link]
3. J. M. Mercado*, Vivek N. Prakash*, Y. Tagawa, C. Sun, and D. Lohse
Lagrangian statistics of light particles in Turbulence
Physics of Fluids, 24, 055106 (2012)
[web link] [PDF] (*Equal authorship)
2. Y. Tagawa, J. M. Mercado, Vivek N. Prakash, E. Calzavarini, C. Sun, and D. Lohse
Three-dimensional Lagrangian Voronoi analysis for clustering of particles and bubbles in turbulence
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 693, 201-215 (2012)
1. Vivek N. Prakash, K. R. Sreenivas, and J. H. Arakeri
The role of viscosity contrast on plume structure in laboratory modeling of mantle convection
Chemical Engineering Science, 158, 245-256 (2017)
23. Melissa Ruszczyk^**, Skylar Rodriguez**, Montale Tuen, Kylee Rux, Santhan Chandragiri^, Maren Stickley, Brian K. Haus, Andrew C. Baker, Margaret W. Miller, Prannoy Suraneni, Chris Langdon#, and Vivek N. Prakash#
Local alkalinity enhancement using artificial substrates increases survivorship of early-stage coral recruits
Communications Earth & Environment (under review) (2025)
^Postdoc mentee, **Equal contribution, #Corresponding authors
Our poster entry for APS-DFD "Gallery of Fluid Motion" Competition 2023 [web link]
24. Bikram D. Shrestha*‡, Santhan Chandragiri^‡, Christian D. Gibson, Nina R. Couture, Melissa Ruszczyk^, and Vivek N. Prakash#, Confinement-induced proliferation of vortices around marine invertebrate larvae
(under preparation) (2025)
*Graduate student mentee, ^Postdoc mentee, **Undergraduate student mentee, ‡Equal contribution, #Corresponding author