Twenty-six faculty members lead the department's laboratories, many holding prestigious national and international fellowships, alongside four affiliated faculty in Mathematics & Statistics and Physical Sciences whose research closely overlaps with biology.
Research Area: Microbial Biochemistry, bringing in the hidden traits and exploiting the less known microbes for various biotechnological and industrial benefits.
skkhare@iiserkol.ac.in
Research Area: Understanding the mechanism of molecular components involved in host-pathogen interaction.
amallick@iiserkol.ac.in
Research Area: Structural proteomics and imaging of clinically important molecules.
amitkm@iiserkol.ac.in
Research Area: Animal Behaviour, Evolution, Ecology.
abhadra@iiserkol.ac.in
Research Area: Community Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation, zebrafish behavioural ecology.
anuradhabhat@iiserkol.ac.in
Research Area: Cell biology, membrane trafficking, eukaryotic copper metabolism.
arnab.gupta@iiserkol.ac.in
Research Area: Epigenetics and Gene regulation.
s.babu@iiserkol.ac.in
Research Area: Theoretical and computational Biophysics, and Stochastic processes in biology.
dipjyoti.das@iiserkol.ac.in
Research Area: Neural Cell Biology, Neuroscience.
dassarmaj@iiserkol.ac.in
Research Area: Molecular characterization and differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells isolated from human umbilical cord / bone marrow / adipose tissue.
malancha.ta@iiserkol.ac.in
Research Area: Theoretical and Computational Biophysics: Protein folding, stability, self-assembly and amyloidogenesis, thermal and solvent influences, crowding effects, interfacial behaviour.
n.sengupta@iiserkol.ac.in
Research Area: Structural & Molecular Biology.
partha_datta@iiserkol.ac.in
Research Area: Marine Microbiology, Climate Change and Ocean Acidification, Microbial Ecology.
pbhadury@iiserkol.ac.in
Research Area: Chemical Ecology, Plant-insect interactions, Agricultural Entomology, Plant Biology. Her lab focuses on understanding chemical ecology of tri-trophic interactions between Plant-Insect and Parasitoid wasps with applications in agricultural ecosystems.
rv@iiserkol.ac.in
Research Area: Biomolecular NMR, Structural Biology, Cell signaling.
rahul.das@iiserkol.ac.in
Research Area: Peptide based therapeutics, Immuno-combination therapy for Cancer, Cancer Nanomedicine, Regenerative Nanomedicine, Designing Hemostat for Bleeding Disorder, Diabetic Wound Care, Computational Biology work in collaboration.
rituparna@iiserkol.ac.in
Research Area: Community and Ecosystem Ecology, Restoration Ecology, Biodiversity Conservation, Wildlife Habitat Management.
robert.john@iiserkol.ac.in
Research Area: Actin Cytoskeleton: Regulation of formins activity by formin binding proteins.
spm@iiserkol.ac.in
Research Area: Plant Molecular and Developmental Biology, Thermosensory signaling mechanisms, Temperature and light signaling cross-talk, Plant Epigenetics, Plant Biotechnology.
ngsreeram@iiserkol.ac.in
Research Area: Natural Killer cells, Immunotherapy, Cancer, Infectious Diseases.
sumit.santara@iiserkol.ac.in
Research Area: Neurobiology, Regenerative Medicine, Molecular Engineering, Drug Development.
subrata.pramanik@iiserkol.ac.in
Research Area: Biochemical Engineering and Bioenergy, Bioinorganic Chemistry.
supratim@iiserkol.ac.inFormer members of the department who continue to be part of its academic community.
Research Area: Genetic Recombination and Protein Folding
chanchaldg2000@yahoo.com
Research Area: mRNA Stability, Gene Regulation, Bioremediation.
senguptk@yahoo.comColleagues based in the Departments of Mathematics & Statistics and Physical Sciences whose work sits at the interface with biology.
Research Area: Spectral graph theory; Structure and evolution of biological networks; Human brain functional networks.
anirban.banerjee@iiserkol.ac.inResearch Area: Biological and Machine Learning, Computational Neuroscience, Visual Perception, Feature Extraction and Pattern Classification, Brain Computer Interface.
koel.das@iiserkol.ac.inResearch Area: Theoretical Biological Physics; Soft Condensed Matter; Nonlinear Dynamics.
rumi.de@iiserkol.ac.inResearch Area: Complex Systems, Biophysics, Computational Biology & Bioinformatics.
supratim.sen@iiserkol.ac.in