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

Theoretical and Computational Biology, Physics of Morphogenesis, Biostatistics, Scientific Computing

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

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

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

Meiotic recombination, Genome stability, Mutation rates

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

Structural Molecular Biology - Protein Crystallography, Single Particle CryoEM

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

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

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

Hematopoietic stem cells, bone marrow niche, developmental hematopoiesis

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

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

Evolutionary and Systems Biochemistry

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