Faculty Members

Assistant Professor Grade I
  +91 (0)471 - 2778348
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Research Area

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

Assistant Professor Grade I
  +91 (0)471 - 2778357
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Research Area

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

Assistant Professor Grade I
  +91 (0)471 - 2778296
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Research Area

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

Assistant Professor Grade I
  +91 (0)471 - 2778047
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Research Area

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

Assistant Professor Grade I
  +91 (0)471 - 2778045
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Research Area

Circadian clock, neuropeptides and sleep, post-transcriptional regulation of circadian rhythm etc.

Assistant Professor Grade I
  +91 (0)471 - 2778321
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Research Area

Nuclear organization, Chromatin architecture, Genomic instability, Cancer Biology

Assistant Professor Grade I
  +91 (0)471 - 2778254
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Research Area

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

Assistant Professor Grade I
  +91 (0)471 - 2778161
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Research Area

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

Assistant Professor Grade I
  +91 (0)471 - 2778059
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Research Area

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

Assistant Professor Grade I
  +91 (0)471 - 2778339
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Research Area

Computational Biology, Mathematical modelling, Plant metabolism, Parasite metabolism

Assistant Professor Grade I
  +91 (0)471 - 2778347
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Research Area

Evolutionary and Systems Biochemistry

Assistant Professor Grade I
  +91 (0)471 - 277 8371
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Research Area

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

Associate Professor
  +91 (0)471 - 2778169
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Research Area

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

Associate Professor
  +91 (0)471 - 4712778087
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Research Area

Structural Molecular Biology - Protein Crystallography, Single Particle CryoEM

Associate Professor
  +91 (0)471 - 2778175
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Research Area

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

Associate Professor
  +91 (0)471 - 2778046
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Research Area

Hematopoietic stem cells, bone marrow niche, developmental hematopoiesis

Associate Professor
  +91 (0)471 - 2778068
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Research Area

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

Associate Professor
  +91 (0)471 - 2778160
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Research Area

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

Professor
  +91 (0)471 - 2778063
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Research Area

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

Professor
  +91 (0)471 - 2778173
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Research Area

Meiotic recombination, Genome stability, Mutation rates

Professor
  +91 (0)471 - 2778171
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Research Area

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

Professor
  +91 (0)471 - 2778172
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Research Area

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


Visiting and Adjunct Faculty

Adjunct Faculty
  Professor, IISc Bangalore
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Research Area

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

Visiting Professor
  IISc, Bangalore
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Research Area

Virus Crystallography

Visiting Professor
  IIT Madras
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Research Area

Big Data – Bioinformatics

Visiting Professor
  SCTIMST, Thiruvananthapuram
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Research Area

Laboratory Animals, Experimental Pathobiology, Biomaterials


Faculty Fellow

ANRF Ramanujan Fellow
  +91 (0)471 - 2778323
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Research Area

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

DBT Ramalingaswami Faculty Fellow
  +91 (0)471 - 2778328
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Research Area

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

DBT Ramalingaswami Faculty Fellow
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Research Area

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

DBT Ramalingaswami Faculty Fellow
  +91 (0)471 - 2778294
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Research Area

Plant-pathogen interaction, Gene editing, Trait characterization, Molecular breeding

ICMR -DHR Fellow
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Research Area

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