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Biology

Our research focuses on frontier areas in Biological Sciences. We aim for research that seamlessly integrates physics, chemistry, mathematics and computational sciences to answer key biological questions. Research in Biology at IISER currently encompasses both theoretical and experimental approaches to the broad areas of Systems Biology, Ecology and Population Dynamics, Evolutionary-Developmental Biology, Cancer Biology, Neurobiology, Epigenetics and Gene-Environment interactions.

IISER Pune is actively recruiting more faculty for its Biology program and would like to strengthen both core areas in Biology as well as multidisciplinary research areas.

For enquiries about faculty positions write to Dr. Thomas Pucadyil (pucadyil at iiserpune.ac.in).

Prospective PhD students are encouraged to send their queries to biophdselection@iiserpune.ac.in. Detailed eligibility criteria and timetable of admission process would be posted here. Please note that students interested in pursuing research in Ecology and Evolution should have cleared GATE (Ecology and Evolution ) and those wanting to pursue PhD in other areas of Biology should have cleared the JGEEBILS.

Facilities Centres of Excellence Academic Advisors Faculty Positions

Name	Designation	Research
Faculty Members
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
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