| 1 |
Infectious Diseases and Immunology |
Polyphosphate signalling in microbial pathogenesis, inflammation, and immunity |
Dr. Chittur V. Srikanth, RCB |
| Dr. Karthika Rajeeve, BRIC-RGCB |
| 2 |
Infectious Diseases and Immunology |
Integrative multi-omics approaches for unveiling the host-pathogen interplay in invasive Candida infections |
Dr. Ajay Mahato, BRIC-CDFD |
| 3 |
Infectious Diseases and Immunology |
Host Pathogen Interaction w.r.t. Mycobacterium |
Dr. Bhaswati Pandit, BRIC-NIBMG |
| Dr. Karthika Rajeeve, BRIC-RGCB |
| Dr. Tanmay Majumdar, BRIC-NII |
| Dr. Girish K Radhakrishnan, BRIC-NIAB |
| Dr. Ramandeep Singh, BRIC-THSTI |
| 4 |
Climate-resilient and sustainable agriculture |
Development of direct-seeded rice for climate-smart agriculture |
Dr Sneh Lata Singla-Pareek, ICGEB |
| Dr. Jagadis Gupta Kapuganti, BRIC-NIPGR |
| Dr. Tanushri Kaul, ICGEB |
| Dr. Rajeev Nayan Bahuguna, BRIC-NABI |
| 5 |
Carbon Capture |
Advanced Biomaterials for Carbon Capture |
Dr. Ambadas Rode, RCB |
| 6 |
Crop Improvement (yield, fortification, disease resistance) |
Targeting plant translational machinery for improved disease resistance in crops |
Dr Saikat Bhatachrjee, RCB |
| Dr Ramu S Vemanna, RCB |
| 7 |
Infectious Diseases and Immunology |
Investigating Immunological Mechanism of the Crosstalk between Co- morbidities and Arboviral Infection: A systems level longitudinal cohort study (“IMMUNO-TRACK”) |
Dr. Ranjan Nanda, ICGEB |
| 8 |
Crop Improvement (yield, fortification, disease resistance) |
Bioengineering the NUTRICE |
Dr Sneh Lata Singla-Pareek, ICGEB |
| Dr. Moumita Srivastava, BRIC-RGCB |
| 9 |
Neurological and Neurodegenerative Diseases |
Understanding the role of RNAs, RNA-binding proteins and nucleo-cytoplasmic transport in regulation of neurodegenerative disease |
Dr. Amitabha Majumdar, BRIC-NCCS |
| 10 |
Neurological and Neurodegenerative Diseases |
Brain Diseases & Therapeutic Intervention |
Dr. Bhavani Shankar Sahu, BRIC- NBRC |
| Dr. Dhruba Mayanganblam BRIC-NBRC |
| 11 |
Cancer Biology |
Understanding molecular mechanisms triggering anemia in cancer patients following chemotherapy |
Dr. Pankaj Sharma, BRIC-NCCS |
| 12 |
Cancer Biology |
Cancer Genomics, Chemoresistance and Therapy |
Dr. Avinash Bajaj, RCB |
| Dr. Arnab Mukhopadhyay, BRIC-NII |
| 13 |
Health innovations/AI and computational data science |
Development of multi-scale whole brain connectome platforms for disease mapping and therapeutics |
Dr. Khushbu Agarwal, BRIC-NBRC |
| 14 |
Biofuels |
Sustainable production of Jet-fuel from food and agricultural waste using engineered organisms |
Dr. Shashi Kumar, ICGEB |
| Dr. Shireesh Srivastava (coordinator), ICGEB |
| Dr. Meena Krishania, BRIC-NABI |
| Dr. Syed Shams Yazdani, ICGEB |
| 15 |
Crop Improvement (yield, fortification, disease resistance) |
Exploring miRNAs for Biofortiffication and Stress Resilience in Banana |
Dr. Siddharth Tiwari, BRIC-NABI |
| Dr. Panneerselvam Krishna Murthy, BRIC-NABI |
| Dr. Ashutosh Pandey, BRIC-NIPGR |
| 16 |
Cancer Biology |
Molecular investigations of cancer-mediated cachexia to mitigate effects and improve patients’ life |
Dr. Sanjeev Das, BRIC-NII |
| Dr. Vidisha Tripathi, BRIC-NCCS |
| 17 |
Immunobiology / cellular processes / therapeutic targets |
Understanding protein trafficking pathways: Integrative cellular and structural biology approaches |
Dr. Radha Chauhan, NCCS |
| Dr. Santosh Kumar Balot, NCCS |
| 18 |
Infectious Diseases and Immunology |
Cross-regulation of flagellar motility, biofilm and anti-microbial resistance in bacterial pathogens: Mechanism and Inhibition |
Prof. Deepti Jain, RCB |
| Dr. Subhadeep Chatterjee, BRIC-CDFD |
| Dr. Tushar Beuria, BRIC-ILS |
| 19 |
Neurological and Neurodegenerative Diseases |
Uncovering the role of placental factors in cognitive deficits associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) |
Dr Sourav Banerjee, BRIC-NBRC |
| Dr Dasaradhi Palakodeti, BRIC-inStem |
| Dr Khushbu Agarwal, BRIC-NBRC |
| 20 |
Artificial Intelligence And Computational Data |
Novel eQTL functionalization |
Dr Nidhan K Biswas, BRIC-NIBMG |
| Dr Priyadarshi Basu, BRIC-NIBMG |
| 21 |
Smart proteins and functional feed |
Alternate Nutrition |
Dr. Debasree Dutta, BRIC-RGCB |
| 22 |
Artificial Intelligence And Computational Data |
Artificial Intelligence guided (AI) design of novel proteins for improving health and nutrition |
Dr Shrikant Mantri, BRIC-NABI |
| Dr Narendra Kumar, BRIC-NII |
| 23 |
Carbon Capture |
SynCarbon: AI guided search of novel Synthetic scaffolds for atmospheric Carbon Capture |
Dr. Narendra Kumar, BRIC-NII |
| 24 |
Chronic and Metabolic Diseases |
Cardio Genomics, stem cells/organoids and precision medicine |
Dr. Bhaswati Pandit, BRIC-NIBMG |
| 25 |
Immunobiology/ Cellular Processes and Therapeutic Targets |
Identifying novel modulators for therapeutic targeting of autophagy in human pathophysiology |
Dr. Shailendra Asthana, BRIC-THSTI |
| Dr. Manjula Kalia, RCB |
| 26 |
Chronic and Metabolic Diseases |
Cardiovascular Disease Therapeutics: Preclinical Drug Development Targeting oxLDL Receptor LOX-1 |
Dr. Arockiasamy Arulandu, ICGEB |
| Dr. Ranjan Nanda, ICGEB |
| 27 |
Climate resilient and sustainable agriculture |
Developing climate smart cereal crops (rice, sorghum) by modulating phytohormone and peptide signaling |
Dr. Pawan Kumar Jewaria, BRIC-NIPGR |
| Dr. Rita Sharma, BRIC-NABI |
| 28 |
Climate resilient and sustainable agriculture |
Augmenting Symbiosis in Rice for Sustainable Agriculture |
Dr. Senjuti Sinharoy, BRIC-NIPGR |
| Dr. Amar Pal Singh, BRIC-NIPGR |
| Dr. Senthil-K Muthappa, BRIC-NIPGR |
| Dr. Vineet Gaur, BRIC-NIPGR |
| Dr. Jitendra Thakur, ICGEB |
| 29 |
Infectious Diseases and Immunology |
Role of non-coding RNAs in regulating immune response in Indian chicken breeds |
Dr. Ajay Kumar Mahato, BRIC-CDFD |
| Dr Shailesh Kumar, BRIC-NIPGR |
| Dr Shailesh Sharma, BRIC-NIAB |
| 30 |
Smart proteins and functional feed |
Oleaginous Yeast for functional feed |
Dr. Naseem Gaur, ICGEB |
| Dr. Yash Pal, BRIC-NIAB |
| Dr. Sanjay Singh, BRIC-NIAB |
| 31 |
Health Innovations |
Role of PP1-α mediated regulation of Notch signalling in neurogenesis and regeneration across evolution |
Dr. Rohit Joshi, BRIC-CDFD, Hyderabad |
| Prof. Dasaradhi Palakodeti, BRIC-inStem |
| 32 |
Health Innovations |
Mapping metabolic networks under microgravity and space flight |
Dr. Arvind Ramanathan, BRIC-inStem |
| Dr. Shashi Kumar, ICGEB |
| Dr Nitin Kumar Singhal, BRIC-NABI |
| 33 |
Health Innovations |
Pathogen Deubiquitinases (DUBs) in Intracellular Infection: Orchestrators of Immune Evasion, Immunometabolism, Mitochondrial Homeostasis, and Therapeutic Targeting |
Dr. Karthika Rajeeve, BRIC-RGCB |
| Dr. Tanmay Majumdar, BRIC- NII |
| Dr. Girish K Radhakrishnan, BRIC- NIAB |
| 34 |
Sustainable Biomanufacturing and Biofuels |
Synthetic biology platforms for integrated carbon capture and hydrogen generation via metabolic coupling in Saccharomyces-Cyanobacteria (SacCy) consortia |
Dr. Sunil Laxman, BRIC- inStem |
| Dr. Shireesh Srivastava, ICGEB |
| 35 |
Biotechnology for Jaiv Shakti Nirman (Animal, Plant, Bioresource) |
Evaluation of biosynthetic pathways for secondary metabolites in medicinal plants: Genomics and Transcriptomics approach |
Dr Pardeep Kumar Bhardwaj, BRIC-IBSD |
| Dr. Seema Pradhan, BRIC-ILS |
| Dr. Ajay Kumar Mahato, BRIC-CDFD |
| 36 |
Health Innovations |
Biomanufacturing of Live Biotherapeutics |
Dr. Bhabatosh Das, BRIC-THSTI |
| Dr. Punit Prasad, BRIC-ILS |
| Dr. Tushar Maiti, RCB |
| 37 |
Health Innovations |
Using genomics and (patient-derived) iPSCs towards mechanistic understanding and disease modelling for neurodevelopmental disorders |
Dr. Shweta Tyagi, BRIC-CDFD |
| Dr. Ashwin Dalal, BRIC-CDFD |
| Dr. Ramesh Yelagandula, BRIC-CDFD |
| Dr. Srinivasarao Repudi, BRIC-inStem |
| 38 |
Health Innovations |
Pre-eclampsia: Insights into risk prediction and placental biology through proteomics and epigenomics |
Dr. Pallavi Kshetrapal, BRIC-THSTI |
| Dr. Tushar Maiti, RCB |
| Dr. Debasree Dutta, BRIC-RGCB |