Molecular basis of behaviour, Stress and social behaviour, Neurodevelopmental disorders, Epilepsy, Molecular mechanisms, Zebrafish
Host-Parasite interactions, Nutrient trafficking by intracellular parasites, Innate sensing, Immune evasion by parasites, Host-targeted interventions.
Application and understanding of CRISPR-Cas systems, Molecular Biology, Molecular Genetics
Circadian clock, neuropeptides and sleep, post-transcriptional regulation of circadian rhythm etc.
Nuclear organization, Chromatin architecture, Genomic instability, Cancer Biology
Parkinson's disease, Neurodegeneration mechanisms, Protein aggregation, Electrophysiology
Molecular Biology and Genetics: Replication-Transcription Conflicts, Mechanisms of Mutagenesis, Gene Expression, Evolution, Antibiotic Resistance
Infection and immunity, Host-pathogen interaction, Biology of infectious diseases
Computational Biology, Mathematical modelling, Plant metabolism, Parasite metabolism
Evolutionary and Systems Biochemistry
Nutrient and energy homeostasis, Gene regulation in neuroendocrine centers, Neural circuitry of feeding
Structural Molecular Biology - Protein Crystallography, Single Particle CryoEM
Plant Centromere biology, Uniparental genome elimination, Genome stability, Aneuploidy,Haploid genetics ,Minichromosome biology
Hematopoietic stem cells, bone marrow niche, developmental hematopoiesis
Prey-predator interactions, Insect-plant interactions, Wolbachia in insects, Secondary sexual characters, Phylogenetic patterns, Diversity of Indian butterflies
Molecular Virology- Zoonotic Viruses, Virus discovery, Virus host Interactions, Development of Vaccine and Monoclonal antibodies
Sensory ecology of pollinators, plant-animal interactions, Behavioural ecology of bees and social spiders
Meiotic recombination, Genome stability, Mutation rates
Immunology, Imaging, Mammalian Cell Biology and Biochemistry. Host-microbial interactions, Cell Signaling Mechanisms, Apoptosis, Autophagy and NF-kappaB Signaling.
Kinetochore and centrosome biology, chromosome segregation, mitotic spindle regulation and signaling in mammalian cells
Infectious disease, Host-pathogen interaction, Immune subversion strategy, Plant-microbe interaction
Neurobiology
Virus Crystallography
Big Data – Bioinformatics
Laboratory Animals, Experimental Pathobiology, Biomaterials
Environmental plant physiology, Hydraulic architecture of mangroves, Hydraulic targets for yield improvement of industrial crops
Cell biology of lysosomal storage disorders; Regulation of lysosomal transport in disease
Immunology and Gene regulation (immune response to bacterial and viral infection, t cell differentiation, cell signaling, epigenetics and transcriptomics)