Research in the School of Biology spans all scales from single molecules all the way up to ecosystems. Although the bulk of the research is driven by PhD students and postdoctoral fellows, several major and minor projects done by IISER TVM BS-MS routinely translate to publications in peer-reviewed journals co-authored by the students. The following are the broad research areas in the school. You can click through the nodes in the image below, or scroll down for more detailed information.
- Sandhya Ganesan
Host-pathogen Interaction (Biology of infectious diseases, Innate immunity, Cellular defence mechanisms, Intracellular bacterial pathogens, SNARE proteins in immunity) - S. Murty Srinivasula
Cell Signalling and Immunity (Cell Signalling, Autophagy, Immunity, Apoptosis, Trafficking and Ubiquitin signalling) - Ramanathan Natesh
Structural Molecular Biology (Transcription regulation, chaperones and DNA damage repair mechanisms in infectious diseases and cancer using electron cryo microscopy, protein crystallography, bioinformatics and other kindred approaches) - V. Stalin Raj
Virology (Emerging infectious disease, Virus discovery, Virus-Host interactions)
- N Sadananda Singh
Molecular Genetics (genome editing, adverse drug reaction, Cholesterol metabolism) - Nishant KT
Genome Stability (DNA repair and recombination, Yeast Genetics, Genome Informatics, Genome stability during mitosis and meiosis) - Sabari Sankar Thirupathy
Molecular Biology (Replication-Transcription Conflicts, DNA Repair & Mutagenesis, Genome Organization, Mechanisms & Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance) - Ravi Maruthachalam
Plant Molecular Biology (Haploid genetics, Plant centromere biology, Genome instability) - Ramanathan Natesh
Structural Molecular Biology (Transcription regulation, chaperones and DNA damage repair mechanisms in infectious diseases and cancer using electron cryo microscopy, protein crystallography, bioinformatics and other kindred approaches) - Tapas K Manna
Mammalian Cell Division and Signalling (chromosome segregation, spindle pole biogenesis and signaling in mammalian cells)
- Ramanathan Natesh
Structural Molecular Biology (Transcription regulation, chaperones and DNA damage repair mechanisms in infectious diseases and cancer using electron cryo microscopy, protein crystallography, bioinformatics and other kindred approaches) - Tapas K Manna
Mammalian Cell Division and Signalling (chromosome segregation, spindle pole biogenesis and signaling in mammalian cells)
- Ullasa Kodandaramaiah
Evolutionary Ecology (Speciation and Diversification, Prey-predator interactions, Coevolution, Phenotypic plasticity, Molecular ecology, Life-history traits) - Hema Somanathan
Behavioural and Evolutionary ecology (Plant-animal mutualisms, Sensory ecology of pollinators, Social spider behaviour)
- Satish Khurana
Stem cells and Development (Hematopoietic Stem Cells, Hematopoietic development in the mouse embryo, Bone marrow niche, oxygen sensing mechanism and metabolism, Integrin signaling) - Nishant KT
Genome Stability (DNA repair and recombination, Yeast Genetics, Genome Informatics, Genome stability during mitosis and meiosis) - Ravi Maruthachalam
Plant Molecular Biology (Haploid genetics, Plant centromere biology, Genome instability) - Nisha N Kannan
Chronobiology (Circadian pacemaker, sleep, post-transcriptional regulation, memory neuronal circuit, clock and metabolism, evolution of circadian clock) - Jishy Varghese
Developmental Biology (Drosophila development and genetics, insulin signalling in growth and metabolism, inter-organ communication, microRNA functions, cellular and systemic homeostasis)
- Poonam Thakur
Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (Parkinson's disease, rodent models, electrophysiology, neuroprotection)
