• Animal model of stroke for testing neuroprotective drugs
• Characterization of lymphocyte surface molecules
• Development of dendritic cells and their role in the immune response
• Functional genomics of the model nematode C. elegans
• Ion and metabolite transport in plants and cyanobacteria
• Mechanism of release of ATP from brain cells
• Mechanisms of antimalarial drug resistance
• Molecular basis of bacterial pathogenesis and vaccine development
• Molecular basis of malaria pathology
• Molecular biology of photoprotection and chloroplast development
• Molecular microbiology and microbial ecology of bacteria of the gastrointestinal tract
• Physiology, biochemistry and pharmacology of the malaria parasite
• Structure and function of amino acid transporters in the brain, kidney and intestine.
• Gene regulation in plants
• Immunology of Virus Infections