The Centre conducts multi-disciplinary innovative research in biotech sciences in the following broad areas:
- Infectious Disease Biology
- Molecular Medicine
- Cancer & Cell Biology
- Agricultural Biotechnology
- Systems & Synthetic Biology
- Structural Biology
A glimpse of the specific research within the above domains currently being pursued at RCB is provided below.
- Structural Biology of Immune Recognition, Molecular Mimicry and Allergy
- Molecular biology of thrombosis, coagulation, inflammation, strokes, infractions and ischemia in disease conditions
- Molecular determinants of genomic integrity and plasticity
- Cell Division, Intercellular Communication and Cellular Dynamics
- Unlocking the Chemistry of Cancer and Nanomedicine
- Structural biology of host-microbe interactions in health and disease, bacterial pili and biofilm
- Ubiquitin mediated signaling in cellular processes
- Molecular Biology of Infectious and Idiopathic Inflammation
- Mammalian development, stem cells, regeneration and disease
- Signaling pathways in effector triggered immunity of plant
- Transcription Regulation: Structure and Mechanism
- Functional genomics and molecular genetics of the legume-powdery mildew interaction
- Biology of human viruses
- Molecular dissection of host-virus interaction for development of novel anti-viral strategies and drugs
- Rationale development of biocatalyst for value added products
- Molecular biology and abiotic stress response of plants
- Unravelling the plant cell wall biosynthesis and architecture for bioenergy applications
- Calcium signaling: molecular choreography to its role in pathophysiology
- Molecular engineering of functional nucleic acids for biomedical and biotechnological applications
- Structural aspects of translation regulation
- Structure function aspects of centriolar organelles involved in various disease pathobiology
- Investigating defense-developmental adaptation during biotic stress responses of plants.
- Understanding phytopathogenic effector evolution to evade plant immune responses
- Plant Biosynthesis and Engineering
- Chemical biology approaches to protein engineering
- Molecular signaling of thrombosis, inflammation and immune response in human health and diseases
- Mammalian development, stem cells, regeneration and disease
- To study the impact of Flavivirus infection on immune cell phenotypes and their association with disease outcome
- Understanding molecular mechanisms that drive phenotypic and functional heterogeneity within immune cells during viral infection
- Cross-talk between immune cells and their impact on viral pathogenesis
- Role of extracellular vesicles in viral infection and pathogenesis
- Translational control of gene expression in yeast and fungal Pathogens
- Synthetic biology for microbial production of commodity chemicals
- Mammalian development, stem cells, regeneration and disease
