Kanishka Basnayake, PhD, MSc
Postdoctoral Scholar
Anatomy
School of Medicine

Education & Training

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• PhD Biophysics École normale supérieure - Paris 2020
• MSc Computational neuroscience Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) 2016
• BEng Biophysical systems engineering Osaka University 2014

Publications (9)

Top publication keywords:
Ryanodine Receptor Calcium Release ChannelCalcium SignalingBiologyCalciumFertilizationStochastic ProcessesCell Physiological PhenomenaModels, ChemicalComputer SimulationStatistics as TopicDendritic SpinesEndoplasmic Reticulum, SmoothFastingDiffusionBiometry

• Narrow escape in composite domains forming heterogeneous networks
  Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 2023 F Paquin-Lefebvre, K Basnayake, D Holcman
• Dynamic Regulation of Mitochondrial [Ca2+] in Hippocampal Neurons.
  International journal of molecular sciences 2022 Kushnireva L, Basnayake K, Holcman D, Segal M, Korkotian E
• Nanoscale molecular architecture controls calcium diffusion and ER replenishment in dendritic spines.
  Science advances 2021 Basnayake K, Mazaud D, Kushnireva L, Bemelmans A, Rouach N, Korkotian E, Holcman D
• Extreme escape from a cusp: When does geometry matter for the fastest Brownian particles moving in crowded cellular environments?
  The Journal of chemical physics 2020 Basnayake K, Holcman D
• Fast calcium transients in dendritic spines driven by extreme statistics.
  PLoS biology 2019 Basnayake K, Mazaud D, Bemelmans A, Rouach N, Korkotian E, Holcman D

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• Fastest among equals: a novel paradigm in biology: Reply to comments: Redundancy principle and the role of extreme statistics in molecular and cellular biology.
  Physics of life reviews 2019 Basnayake K, Holcman D
• Asymptotic formulas for extreme statistics of escape times in 1, 2 and 3-dimensions
  Journal of Nonlinear Science 2019 K Basnayake, Z Schuss, D Holcman
• Redundancy principle and the role of extreme statistics in molecular and cellular biology.
  Physics of life reviews 2019 Schuss Z, Basnayake K, Holcman D
• Extreme Narrow Escape: Shortest paths for the first particles among n to reach a target window
  2018 K Basnayake, A Hubl, Z Schuss, D Holcman