Thrust Areas of Research
Microbial Biotechnology
This area includes microbial diversity analysis of drinking water, salt lakes and desert ecosystems, microbial metagenomics, molecular and functional profiling, and characterization of industrially important enzymes.
Medical Biotechnology
This area includes functional genomics, screening mutations for genetic diseases and clinical phenotypes, next generation sequencing and systems understanding of regulatory networks.
Natural Resource Management
This area includes geo-spatial tagging of different ecosystems, impact assessment and monitoring of drinking water, health infrastructure and landuse/landcover using remote sensing approaches.