Bhagaban Mallik and Vimlesh Kumar (2017) Regulation of actin-Spectrin Cytoskeleton by ICA69 at the Drosophila Neuromuscular Junction: (Communicative and Integrative Biology, Accepted).

Sandeep Raut, Bhagaban Mallik, Arpan Parichha, Amrutha V, Chandan Sahi* and Vimlesh Kumar* (2017) RNAi-mediated Reverse Genetic Screen Identified Drosophila Chaperones in Regulating Eye and Neuromuscular Junction Morphology: (G3: Genes, Genomes and Genetics, doi: 10.1534/g3.117.041632).

Bhagaban Mallik, Manish Kumar Dwivedi, Zeeshan Mushtaq, Manisha Kumari, Praveen Kumar Verma and Vimlesh Kumar (2017). Regulation of Neuromuscular Junction Organization by Rab2 and Its Effector ICA69 in Drosophila: (Development, doi: 10.1242/dev.145920).

Saumitra Dey Choudhury, Ancy VS, Zeeshan Mushtaq and Vimlesh Kumar (2017). Altered Translational Repression of an RNA-binding Protein, elav by AOA2-causative Senataxin Mutation (Synapse, doi: 10.1002/syn.21969).

Zeeshan Mushtaq, Saumitra Dey Choudhury, Sri Krishna Gangwar, Genny Orso and Vimlesh Kumar (2016) Human Senataxin Modulates Structural Plasticity of the Neuromuscular Junction in Drosophila through a Neuronally Conserved TGFβ Signalling Pathway (Neurodegener Dis 16:324–336)

Saumitra Dey Choudhury, Zeeshan Mushtaq, Suneel Reddy-Alla, Sruthi S Balakrishnan, Rajan S Thakur, KS Krishnan, Padinjat Raghu, Mani Ramaswami and Vimlesh Kumar (2016). s2-adaptin Facilitates Basal Synaptic Transmission and is required for Regenerating Endo- Exo Cycling Pool under High Frequency Nerve Stimulation in Drosophila (GENETICS 2016)DOI: 10.1534/genetics.115.183863

Remembering KS Krishnan (1946–2014) R Rikhy, V Kumar, A Basole, S Sanyal Journal of neurogenetics 29 (1), 1-3

(We remember our PhD mentor Late Prof. KS Krishnan)

Maria Giovanna Rossetto, Erica Zanarella, Genny Orso, Michele Scorzeto, Aram Megighian, Vimlesh Kumar, Antonio V Delgado-Escueta, Andrea Daga (2011). Defhc1.1, a homologue of the juvenile myoclonic gene EFHC1, modulates architecture and basal activity of the neuromuscular junction in Drosophila (Human Molecular Genetics , 2011; 20(21):4248-57).

Vimlesh Kumar, Robert Frike, Debjani Bhar, Suneel Reddi-Alla, KS Krishnan, Sven Bogdan and Mani Ramaswami (2009). The F-BAR Protein Syndapin Promotes Formation of Postsynaptic Membrane System in Drosophila (Mol Biol of the Cell)

Susy Kim, Vimlesh Kumar, Willie Lin, Shanker Karunanithi and Mani Ramaswami (2009). Reserve pool mobilization, not increased active zone number, underlies long-term facilitation at the Drosophila neuromuscular junction (Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 106(10), pp 4000-4005).

Vimlesh Kumar, Suneel Reddi Alla, K.S, Krishnan and Mani Ramaswami (2009). Syndapin is dispensable for synaptic vesicle endocytosis at the Drosophila larval neuromuscular junction. Mol. Cell. Neuroscience 40 (2), pp 233-240.

Vimlesh Kumar and Mani Ramaswami (2006). Kissing and Pinching: Synaptotagmin and Calcium do more between bilayers, Neuron, April 6, 2006, 50 pp 3-5

Richa Rikhy *, Vimlesh Kumar*, Rohit Mittal and K.S. Krishnan (2002). Endophilin is critically required for synapse function and formation in Drosophila melanogaster, J. Neurosci, 2002, 22 (17) 7478-7484.