Faculty Members |
Name |
Designation |
Research |
Nixon M. Abraham |
Assistant Professor |
Neural circuits and behaviour; Olfaction |
Collins Assisi |
Assistant Professor |
Information processing by neuronal networks |
Chaitanya Athale |
Associate Professor |
Self-organization and cell morphogenesis |
Ramana Athreya |
Associate Professor |
Active galaxies, galaxy cluster radio sources, high redshift Universe, imaging techniques; Biodiversity research & conservation |
Nagaraj Balasubramanian |
Associate Professor |
Cell Biology: cell adhesion, trafficking, cell migration and growth |
Anjan Banerjee |
Associate Professor and Co-Chair, Biology |
Plant developmental biology, Micro RNA (miRNA) and gene regulation, Long distance signalling and plant-pathogen interaction |
Deepak Barua |
Associate Professor |
Plant physiology, physiological ecology and evolutionary ecology |
S Sandanaraj Britto |
Assistant Professor |
Chemical Biology/Physiology & Optical Molecular Imaging of Whole Organisms |
Jeetender Chugh |
Assistant Professor |
NMR spectroscopy of biomolecules |
Sutirth Dey |
Associate Professor |
Population dynamics, life-history evolution, simulations, Drosophilia melanogaster |
Sanjeev Galande |
Professor and Chair, Biology |
Epigenetics, Chromatin biology, Regulation of gene expression, Nuclear organization and function |
Aurnab Ghose |
Associate Professor |
Neurobiology |
Pranay Goel |
Associate Professor |
Mathematical biology. Nonlinear dynamical systems, multiscale methods. Theoretical neuroscience, cardiac physiology, diabetes |
Amrita Hazra |
Assistant Professor |
Enzyme mechanisms, Chemical biology of microbes |
Jeet Kalia |
Assistant Professor |
Chemical Biology: Ion channels, lipids, and bioconjugation |
Siddhesh S Kamat |
Assistant Professor |
Chemical Biology, Metabolomics, Chemoproteomics, Lipid Metabolism, Protein Biochemistry |
Saikrishnan Kayarat |
Associate Professor |
Structural biology |
Mayurika Lahiri |
Associate Professor |
DNA damage and cell cycle, 3D studies of breast cancer progression |
M. S. Madhusudhan |
Associate Professor |
Bioinformatics and Structure |
Suhita Nadkarni |
Assistant Professor |
Biophysical models of synaptic plasticity in health and disease |
Gayathri Pananghat |
Assistant Professor |
Structural Biology of Cytoskeletal Systems |
Sagar Pandit |
Assistant Professor |
Chemical and molecular ecology of multitrophic interactions involving plant, herbivore and its natural enemies |
Thomas Pucadyil |
Associate Professor |
Membrane Biochemistry and Biophysics, Vesicular Transport |
Sudha Rajamani |
Assistant Professor |
Origins of life |
Girish Ratnaparkhi |
Associate Professor |
Gene regulation, innate immunity, embryonic development, drosophilia |
Richa Rikhy |
Associate Professor |
Cell Biology of development and differentiation: Membrane trafficking and polarity |
Kundan Sengupta |
Associate Professor |
Chromosome biology in development and disease |
L. S. Shashidhara |
Professor |
Evolution of appendage forms, functional genomics, drug discovery |
Jayant B. Udgaonkar |
Professor and Director |
Study of protein folding, unfolding and aggregation using tools of protein engineering and physical biochemistry. |
Milind Watve |
Professor (Biology); Chair, Humanities & Social Sciences |
Microbiology, Eco-biology |
Visiting Faculty |
Vineeta Bal |
Visiting Faculty |
Research focus: T cell biology |
Neelesh Dahanukar |
Visiting Faculty |
Molecular phylogeny, Phylogeography, Systematics, Molecular epidemiology of wildlife diseases, Conservation biology, Evolutionary game theory |
Girish Deshpande |
Visiting Faculty (Contractual) |
Germ cell migration |
V. S. Rao |
Visiting Faculty |
Plant biology, plant genetics, breeding |
N. K. Subhedar |
Visiting Faculty |
Neurobiology, Neuropeptides and behaviour |
Adjunct Faculty |
Satyajit Rath |
Adjunct Faculty |
Immunology: generation and activation of T, B and antigen-presenting cells (APCs) of myeloid lineage |
Fellows |
Krishanpal Karmodiya |
DST-INSPIRE Faculty Fellow |
Epigenetics and Transcriptional Control in Plasmodium |
Anand Krishnan |
DST-INSPIRE Faculty Fellow |
Interdisciplinary studies of bird sensory signals |
Nishad Matange |
DST-INSPIRE Faculty Fellow |
Metabolic correlates of antibiotic resistance-associated fitness costs in bacteria |
Raghav Rajan |
Ramalingaswami Fellow, DBT |
Neural mechanisms underlying movement initiation in songbirds |
Independent Scientist |
Keerthi Harikrishnan |
WOS-A DST Scientist |
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Jayeeta Banerjee |
WOS-A- DST Scientist |
Environmental interaction in the growth of living organism, Plant proteomics |
Tressa Jacob |
WOS-A DST Scientist |
Understanding the molecular cross talk between epidermis and dermis during dermis development and scale formation, using zebrafish as a model organism |