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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. We intend to expand the existing research areas and also initiate research programmes in other areas of Biology including Biology of Plants, Aging and Senescence, Biophysics and Structural Biology, Behavioral Biology, Immunology and Metabolomics.

Enquiries about biology at IISER may be addressed to : Dr. Aurnab Ghose ( aurnab at iiserpune.ac.in )

Facilities Centres of Excellence Academic Advisors Faculty Positions Project Students

Faculty Members

Name	Designation	Research
Athale, Chaitanya	Assistant Professor	Self-organization and cell morphogenesis
Athreya, Ramana	Associate Professor	Active galaxies, galaxy cluster radio sources, high redshift Universe, imaging techniques, Biodiversity research and conservation, ornithology
Balasubramanian, Nagaraj	Wellcome Trust-DBT Senior Fellow Assistant Professor	Cell Biology: cell adhesion, trafficking, cell migration and growth
Banerjee, Anjan	Assistant Professor	Plant developmental biology, Micro RNA (miRNA) and gene regulation, Long distance signalling and plant-pathogen interaction
Barua, Deepak	Assistant Professor	Plant physiology, physiological ecology and evolutionary ecology
Bhattacharyay, Arijit	Assistant Professor	Complex and dynamical systems, biophysics, pattern formation
Dey, Sutirth	Assistant Professor	Population dynamics, life-history evolution, simulations, Drosophilia melanogaster
Galande, Sanjeev	Swarnajayanti Fellow Professor	Epigenetics, Chromatin biology, Regulation of gene expression, Nuclear organization and function
Ghose, Aurnab	Assistant Professor	Neurobiology
Goel, Pranay	Assistant Professor	Mathematical biology. Nonlinear dynamical systems, multiscale methods. Theoretical neuroscience, cardiac physiology and diabetes
Kayarat, Saikrishnan	Wellcome Trust-DBT Intermediate Fellow Assistant Professor	Structural biology
Lahiri, Mayurika	Assistant Professor	DNA damage and cell cycle, nitric oxide synthase and breast cancer
Pucadyil, Thomas	Wellcome Trust-DBT Intermediate Fellow Assistant Professor	Membrane Biochemistry and Biophysics, Vesicular Transport
Rao, V. S.	Visiting Faculty	Plant biology, plant genetics, breeding
Ratnaparkhi, Girish	Wellcome Trust-DBT Intermediate Fellow Assistant Professor	Gene regulation, innate immunity, embryonic development, drosophilia
Rikhy, Richa	Assistant Professor	Cell Biology of development and differentiation: Membrane trafficking and polarity
Sengupta, Kundan	Wellcome Trust-DBT Intermediate Fellow Assistant Professor	Chromosome biology in development and disease
Shashidhara, L. S.	J C Bose Fellow, DST Professor and Coordinator, Biology	Evolution of appendage forms, functional genomics, drug discovery
Subhedar, N. K.	Visiting Faculty	Neurobiology, Neuropeptides and behaviour
Watve, Milind	Professor	Microbiology, Eco-biology
Fellows
Habib, Farhat	IISER Fellow	Bio-informatics
Iyer, Priya	IISER Fellow	Evolution of sexes and social systems