RESEARCH WORK CARRIED OUT BY THE FACULTY MEMBERS
Dr. Kakoli Biswas:
Dr. Kakoli Biswas’s research interest lies in searching for new drugs in the form of Plant Antimicrobial Peptides (PAMPs) for drug resistant microbes. She has her interest and is also working in the field of Authentication of herbal drugs by DNA profiling, Molecular taxonomy.Her major interest also lies in low cost propagation of plants by tissue culture and Micro-propagation, Phytoremediation using tissue cultured plants for degradation of dyes and phenolic compounds in the environment and to identify the enzymes involved in degradation. She is also engaged in isolating microbes and the enzymes involved in lipid degradation present as pollutant in the soil. Enhancement of secondary metabolites of pharmaceutical interest in various medicinal and ornamental plants through Plant tissue culture.
 
Dr. Raman Soni:
Dr. Raman Soni’s thrust area of research lies in: Microbial Biotechnology. Workingon fungal enzymes viz:  Cellulases, Xylanases, amylases, pullulanases produced by indigenous fungal cultures isolated in Laboratory Fermentation to produce ethanol: The sugars released by hydrolysis of waste of various types are fermented to produce ethanol an important biofuel and also helpful for waste management. Plastic bio -degradation is another area of interest in which fungal isolates were found capable of degrading non-degradable polythene bagsBiosynthesis of Silver nanoparticles: In the recent pasts biosynthesis of Silver  nanoparticles using medicinal plant extracts was carried out and their potential  to inhibit pathogenic bacteria was investigated. 
 
Dr. Anjali Sharma:
Dr. Anjali Sharma has been researching on antimicrobial activity of natural resources like propolis and evaluating their antibiobilm potential against bacteria. She has worked on the synthesis of bioplastics from agricultural resources and physicochemical characterization of the same. The degradation of these plastics was compared to those of conventional plastics for exploring their future applicability. She has also been working on the potential biosurfactants that can be isolated from natural sources. The studies are being undertaken for the optimization and exploring the commercial applications of these surfactants. She has researched on the development of bioadhesive gels encapsulating antifungal drugs and probiotics against vaginal candidiasis.
 
Dr. Arti Arya:
Research Work oriented in the field of Environmental Biotechnology- Bioremediation and Biodegradation of Organopollutants,Chemical Dyes;  Green biotechnology-Kitchen waste ferments /Garbage enzymes as organic biofertilizer,soilconditioner,antimicrobial agent; Herbal Formulations and medicinal Plants-Bioassays for Efficacy and activity Testing.
 
Dr. Rupinderjeet Kaur:
Dr. Rupinder’s research area lies in: Functional and Structural characterization of hypothetical proteins using  insilico tools and databases. Predicting protein-protein interactions to decipher the role of a given protein in a complex or pathway. Studying evolutionary relationships amongst proteins using different phylogenetic tools. Using the databases and tools to study the mutations in the different strains of SarsCov2. Predicting secondary structures for proteins using insilico approach. Insilico deciphering of the secondary structure elements in different proteins.
Ms, Sangeeta Sharma:  
Research area includes Comparative Genome analysis to compare the complete genome sequences of different species. Identifying DNA sequences that have been "conserved" in Orthologues is an important step toward understanding the evolutionary pathways. It delineates the genes that are essential to life and highlights genomic signals that control gene function across many species.
Insilico analysis of the hypothetical proteins in the Biological databases that are yet to be validated by experimental means are the area of focus for their functional characterization, metabolic pathway analysis and structure prediction using various online Bioinformatics tools and softwares.
 
Dr. Sajal Sarabhai(Visiting Faculty):
Dr. Sajal’s research interests revolve around ESKAPE pathogens and their pathogenicity especially in Pseudomonas and Acinetobacter. She is primarily interested in identifying the alternative medicines for treating the infection as all the available drugs have become ineffective and have led to emergence of MDR and XDR strains. Her primary target is to identify, isolate and re-proposition the old drugs in combating the virulence and pathogenicity of these opportunistic pathogens.
Her interest also lies in Quorum sensing which is a communication between bacteria, which regulates the expression of genes via small chemical mediators. The analogue which can interrupt this communication can be a key for regulating various bacterial metabolic pathways. Therefore, she also aims to study the role of quorum sensing inhibitors in spoilage of food. She also aimed to identify and isolate enzyme (s) that could degrade the oils in polluted soil and water via both conventional and metagenomic methods.