Biochemistry

Biochemistry is the study of the chemical processes and transformations in living organisms, including the structure and function of cellular components such as proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, nucleic acids, and other biomolecules. Researchers at the Institute of Biochemistry utilize a wide variety of approaches, experimental systems, and techniques to tackle outstanding problems in our biochemical knowledge.

Enzyme Structure and Function:

Analytical Chemistry of Biomolecules:

Biotechnology

Biotechnology involves the development of novel products and new methods of production based on living organisms or their parts. Biotechnology has yielding new knowledge, products and methods particularly in health care (medical), agriculture, non-food (industrial), and environmental. Researchers at the Institute of Biochemistry along with with government and industry partners are pursuing new biotechnology that aims to improve the quality of human health and productivity.

Medical Biotechnology

Agricultural Biotechnology

Nanotechnology

Computational Biochemistry

Computational Biochemistry provides insight into the metabolic and regulatory behavior of organisms. It aims to provide predictive models that utilize our increasing knowledge of individual macromolecule function within a biological system based on an organism’s genome and correlated with its physiology.

Computational Systems Biology

The development and use efficient algorithms, data structures and communication tools to orchestrate the integration of large quantities of biological data.

Genomics & Proteomics

Recent advances in biochemistry are firmly rooted in the use of high throughout technologies to determine the functional aspects of macromolecules. While genomics aims to increase our understanding of an organism’s entire genome, proteomics aims to reveal the structure and function of extensive networks of interacting proteins that make up the entire complement of proteins produced by an organism.

Genomics

Proteomics