Research



Research Areas

Basic Research

• Biomedicine and Biotechnology
   

• Genetics & Evolution, Genomics
   

• Cell Biology & Development
   

• Molecular Biology and Structural Biology
   

• Biochemistry & Biophysics
   

• Infectious Diseases
   

• Computational Biology & Bioinformatics 

  Biomedicine and Biotechnology

• Tumor biology
  
• Cataract & other eye diseases
  
• Applications of DNA fingerprinting
  
• Conservation of endangered species
  
• Molecular approaches in animal breeding
  
• Aquaculture
  
• Infectious diseases
  
• Applied processes & products
   

  Genetics & Evolution

• Molecular basis of Sex determination
  
• Evolution of sex chromosomes
  
• Human genome diversity
  
• Microbial/Fungal genetics
  
• Extremophiles
   

  Genomic & Proteomics

• Molecular analysis of human genetic disorders
  
• Repromics and chromosome biology
  
• Genome analysis
  
• Functional genomic using transgenic mice
  
• Cancer proteomics
   

   Cell Biology & Development

• Molecular basis of capacitation of spermatozoa
  
• Membrane receptor biology
  
• Molecular basis of development
  
• Hormone regulation
  
• Chromatin structure & function
   

  Molecular Biology 

• Signal transduction
  
• Eukaryotic transcription mechanisms
  
• Nuclear organization
  
• Host-guest interactions in plants
  
• Enzyme structure, function and regulation
  
• RNA interference and gene silencing
   

   Biochemistry & Biophysics

• Intracellular transport of proteins
  
• Membrane-active molecules and membrane organization
  
• Protein structure and conformation
  
• Mathematical modeling of biological processes
  
• Structural biology
   

   Bioinformatics

• Protein secondary structure prediction
  
• Informatics of biological sequences