Core R&D

Antimicrobial peptides from prokaryotic diversity existing in complex ecosystems

Microbial Physiology, Microbiome, Molecular Biology, Ocular disease and Gene Therapy, RNA modification, Yeast model system

Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Enzyme engineering, Molecular Microbiology

Epigenetics, Microbe-host interaction

Glycan-binding proteins, glycosyltransferases and glycoconjugates

Yeast Biology and Protein Biophysics

Drug discovery, Genetic engineering, Microbial diversity, Whole genome sequencing and genotyping

Immunlogy, Immunogenetics, Molecular Biology

Bacterial taxonomy & Systematics with special emphasis on Phototrophic purple Bacteria, Molecular Phylogeny, Prokaryotic diversity of extremophiles and their bioprospecting

Acinetobacter, Antimicrobial resistance, Bacterial thrombolytics, Biology of healthcare associated pathogens, Human microbiome, Signaling proteins

Tuberculosis pathogenesis

Bacterial genetics, genomics and evolution, High throughput genomics, Metagenomics

Fungal Bioprospecting, Fungal Classification and Systematics, Fungal Diversity, Phylogenetic analysis and Thraustochytrids

Bacterial systematics and Metagenomics, Microbial ecology

Antimicrobial screening, Functional metagenomics and Bacterial genomics, Bacterial systematics of phototrophs and chemotrophs