Cell Biology gains insight into basic cellular processes and in this way to provide mechanistic basis for devising therapies for cancer, metabolic and neurological diseases.

Developmental Biology studies cellular processes in the context of living, developing multicellular organisms. Understanding at the organismal level is key to manipulating pathways to combat disease.

Microbiology focuses on understanding the mechanisms involved in secretion of proteins and the role of secreted proteins in bacterial membrane biogenesis and fungal growth and development.

We study simple caricatures of complex biological systems by mathematical modeling and computer simulation. This helps us to understand how these complex systems work. Bioinformatics is the analysis of the large data sets that are nowadays created by modern biological experiments by clever computer algorithms.