DEPARTMENT OF BIOTECHNOLOGY

The major research interests of the laboratory include (i) molecular biology of cell cycle regulation - G2/M arrest, G2 abrogation and apoptotic pathways employing aseptic cultures of the lower eukaryote, Physarum polycephalum, human peripheral blood lymphocytes and human cancer cell lines (ii) phytochemical analysis, screening for antiproliferative, anticancerous and cell cycle blocking agents (iii) studies on multidrug resistant strains of clinical bacterial isolates – genome and plasmid based gene characterization and molecular typing and (iv) cloning and characterization of cell cycle related genes, expression profiling studies in human cancers. Studies are also being planned on molecular systematics of insect pests and parasitoids.