AREAS OF RESEARCH
- Protein structures and function
- Protein folding and dynamics
- Protein Crystallography
- Rational drug discovery & development
- Chromatin architectural proteins
- Chromatin assembly/disassembly by histone chaperone and remodeler proteins during DNA replication, repair and transcription.
- Histone Post-Translational Modification (PTM)-modifying enzymes.
- Viral and bacterial tethering proteins
- Ion channels and electrophysiology (single channel, double patch, whole cell)
- Synaptic exocytosis and endocytosis
- Cell-cell (neuron-astrocyte, astrocyte-astrocyte) interactions
- Generation of induced pluripotent stem cells from patients of Indian ethnicity for disease etiology and drug screening
- Molecular imaging and flow cytometry in stem cell and neuron glia biology
- Neuro-protective potential of mesenchymal stromal cells isolated from human fetal and adult tissues (umbilical cord matrix, dental pulp)
- Pathophysiology of Parkinson’s disease through in vitro and in vivo models Epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, glioma, and diabetes (retinopathy, neuropathy, memory)
- Central, sensory and peripheral nervous system
- Channelopathies