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Thiruvananthapuram

Faculty Members in the School of Biology

Faculty Members

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Dr Amrutha Swaminathan
Assistant Professor Grade I
  +91 (0)471 - 2778348
  amrutha.swaminathan@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Molecular basis of behaviour, Stress and social behaviour, Neurodevelopmental disorders, Epilepsy, Molecular mechanisms, Zebrafish

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Dr Bandan Chakrabortty
Assistant Professor Grade I
  +91 (0)471 - 2778357
  bandan@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Theoretical Biology, Computational Biology, Biophysics, Regeneration, Signal processing, Cytoskeleton Dynamics, Machine Learning, MD Simulation

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Dr Kamalakannan Vijayan
Assistant Professor Grade I
  +91 (0)471 - 2778296
  kamalakannan.vijayan@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Host-Parasite interactions, Nutrient trafficking by intracellular parasites, Innate sensing, Immune evasion by parasites, Host-targeted interventions.

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Dr N. Sadananda Singh
Assistant Professor Grade I
  +91 (0)471 - 2778047
  nssingh@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Application and understanding of CRISPR-Cas systems, Molecular Biology, Molecular Genetics

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Dr Nishana Mayilaadumveettil
Assistant Professor Grade I
  +91 (0)471 - 2778321
  nishana@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Nuclear organization, Chromatin architecture, Genomic instability, Cancer Biology

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Dr Poonam Thakur
Assistant Professor Grade I
  +91 (0)471 - 2778254
  poonam@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Parkinson's disease, Neurodegeneration mechanisms, Protein aggregation, Electrophysiology

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Dr Ravi Sureshbhai Devani
Assistant Professor Grade I
  +91 (0)471 - 2778323
  ravidevani@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Plant Sex Determination, Developmental Biology, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Flower Development, Fruit Set

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Dr Sabari Sankar Thirupathy
Assistant Professor Grade I
  +91 (0)471 - 2778161
  sabari@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Molecular Biology and Genetics: Replication-Transcription Conflicts, Mechanisms of Mutagenesis, Gene Expression, Evolution, Antibiotic Resistance

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Dr Sandhya Ganesan
Assistant Professor Grade I
  +91 (0)471 - 2778059
  sandhyag@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Infection and immunity, Host-pathogen interaction, Biology of infectious diseases

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Dr Sanu Shameer
Assistant Professor Grade I
  +91 (0)471 - 2778339
  sshameer@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Computational Biology, Mathematical modelling, Plant metabolism, Parasite metabolism

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Dr Vijay Jayaraman
Assistant Professor Grade I
  +91 (0)471 - 2778347
  vijay.jayaraman@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Evolutionary and Systems Biochemistry

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Dr Yashraj Chavhan
Assistant Professor Grade I
  +91 (0)471 - 277 8371
  yashraj@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Evolutionary Biology (multicellularity; phenotypic plasticity; cell differentiation origins; fitness trade-offs | experimental evolution)

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Dr Jishy Varghese
Associate Professor
  +91 (0)471 - 2778169
  jishy@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Nutrient and energy homeostasis, Gene regulation in neuroendocrine centers, Neural circuitry of feeding

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Dr Nisha N Kannan
Associate Professor
  +91 (0)471 - 2778045
  nishankannan@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Circadian clock, sleep, metabolism, memory, evolution of circadian clock

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Dr Ramanathan Natesh
Associate Professor
  +91 (0)471 - 4712778087
  natesh72@hotmail.com
Research Area

Structural Molecular Biology - Protein Crystallography, Single Particle CryoEM

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Dr Ravi Maruthachalam
Associate Professor
  +91 (0)471 - 2778175
  ravi@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Plant Centromere biology, Uniparental genome elimination, Genome stability, Aneuploidy,Haploid genetics ,Minichromosome biology

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Dr Satish Khurana
Associate Professor
  +91 (0)471 - 2778046
  satishkhurana@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Hematopoietic stem cells, bone marrow niche, developmental hematopoiesis

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Dr V Stalin Raj
Associate Professor
  +91 (0)471 - 2778160
  stalin@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Molecular Virology- Zoonotic Viruses, Virus discovery, Virus host Interactions, Development of Vaccine and Monoclonal antibodies

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Prof Hema Somanathan
Professor
  +91 (0)471 - 2778063
  hsomanathan@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Sensory ecology of pollinators, plant-animal interactions, Behavioural ecology of bees and social spiders

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Prof Nishant K. T
Professor
  +91 (0)471 - 2778173
  nishantkt@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Meiotic recombination, Genome stability, Mutation rates

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Prof S. Murty Srinivasula
Professor
  +91 (0)471 - 2778171
  sms@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Immunology, Imaging, Mammalian Cell Biology and Biochemistry. Host-microbial interactions, Cell Signaling Mechanisms, Apoptosis, Autophagy and NF-kappaB Signaling.

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Prof Tapas K. Manna
Professor
  +91 (0)471 - 2778172
  tmanna@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Kinetochore and centrosome biology, chromosome segregation, mitotic spindle regulation and signaling in mammalian cells

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Prof Ullasa Kodandaramaiah
Professor
  +91 (0)471 - 2778068
  ullasa@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Prey-predator interactions, Insect-plant interactions, Wolbachia in insects, Secondary sexual characters, Phylogenetic patterns, Diversity of Indian butterflies

Visiting and Adjunct Faculty

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Prof Dipshikha Chakravortty
Adjunct Faculty
  Professor, IISc Bangalore
  dipa@iisc.ac.in
Research Area

Infectious disease, Host-pathogen interaction, Immune subversion strategy, Plant-microbe interaction

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Prof M R N Murthy
Visiting Professor
  IISc, Bangalore
  mrn@mbu.iisc.ernet.in
Research Area

Virus Crystallography

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Prof Michael Gromiha
Visiting Professor
  IIT Madras
  gromiha@iitm.ac.in
Research Area

Big Data – Bioinformatics

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Prof Sharmila Mande
Visiting Professor
  Former Distinguished Chief Scientist, TCS
  sharmila@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Microbiome, Bioinformatics, Systems Biology, Computational Biology

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Prof T V Anilkumar
Visiting Professor
  SCTIMST, Thiruvananthapuram
  tvanilkumar@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Laboratory Animals, Experimental Pathobiology, Biomaterials

Faculty Fellow

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Dr Siddharth Shrikant Kulkarni
ANRF Ramanujan Fellow
  +91 (0)471 - 2778323
  sskspider@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Genetic underpinnings of macroevolutionary patterns, evolutionary history, asymmetric diversification and biogeography using chelicerates as a model system.

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Dr Anirban Guha
DBT Ramalingaswami Faculty Fellow
  +91 (0)471 - 2778328
  guhaanirban@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Environmental plant physiology, Hydraulic architecture of mangroves, Hydraulic targets for yield improvement of industrial crops

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Dr Swathi Devireddy
DBT Ramalingaswami Faculty Fellow
  swathidevireddy@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Cell biology of lysosomal storage disorders; Regulation of lysosomal transport in disease

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Dr Karthik Chandiran
ICMR -DHR Fellow
  kchandiran@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Immunology and Gene regulation (immune response to bacterial and viral infection, t cell differentiation, cell signaling, epigenetics and transcriptomics)