Top ten impactful career publications:

1. Ray K#, and Rodrigues V*. Cellular Events During Development of the Olfactory Sense Organs in Drosophila melanogaster. (1995). Dev. Biol., 167:426-438. (First report on the olfactory system specification).
2. Ray K#, Perez SE, Yang Z, Xu J, Steller H, and Goldstein LSB*. (1999) Kinesin-II Is Required For Axonal Transport Of Choline Acetyltransferase In Drosophila. J Cell Biol., 147:507-517.
3. Sarpal R, Todi SV, Sivan-Loukianova E, Shirolikar S, Subramanian N, Raff EC, Erickson JW, Ray K*, Eberl DF. (2003) Drosophila KAP Interacts with the Kinesin II Motor Subunit KLP64D to Assemble Chordotonal Sensory cilia, but not Sperm Tails. Curr. Biol., 13:1687-96.
4. Ghosh-Roy A, Desai BS, Ray K*. (2005) Dynein Light Chain 1 regulates Dynamin-Mediated F-Actin assembly During Sperm Individualization in Mol Biol Cell. 16:3107-16. (cover article)
5. Baqri R, Charan R, Shimmelfeng K, Chavan S, and Ray K*. (2006) Kinesin-2 Differentially Regulates the Anterograde Axonal Transports of Acetylcholinesterase and Choline Acetyltransferase in Drosophila. J Neurobiol., 66:378-92. (cover article)
6. Doodhi H, Ghosal D, Krishnamurthy M, Jana SC, Divya S, Bhaduri A, Sowdhamini R, and Ray K*. (2009) KAP, the Accessory Subunit of Kinesin-2 Binds the Predicted Coiled-coil Stalk of the Motor Subunits. Biochemistry, 48:2248-60. (cover article)
7. Desai BS, Shirolikar S, and Ray K*. (2009) F-actin Based Extensions of the Head Cyst Cell Adhere to the maturing Spermatids to Maintain Them in a Tight Bundle and Prevent Their Premature Release in Drosophila BMC Biol., 7:19 (Highlighted Article, Most Accessed)
8. Sadananda A, Hamid R, Doodhi H, Ghosal D, Girotra M, Jana SC, and Ray, K*. (2012) Interaction with a Kinesin-2 Tail Propels Choline Acetyltransferase Flow Towards Synapse. Traffic, 13:979-991. (cover article)
9. Dubey P, Shirolikar S and Ray K*. (2016) Localized, Reactive F-actin Dynamics Prevents Abnormal Somatic Cell Penetration by Mature Spermatids. Dev. Cell, 38:507–521. (Short listed finalist for the ‘2017 Inspiring Science Award' by Cell Press-TNQ India.)
10. Dey S, Banker G, and Ray K*. (2017) Axonal Transport of Rab4-associated Vesicles by Heterotrimeric Kinesin-2 Down Regulates Synapse Assembly in Drosophila. Cell Reports, 18:1-12. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2017.02.034

*- corresponding author, research supervisor and director;  # - co-originator of the idea and the experimental plan