Our group concerns in understanding the complexity of developmental biology and neuroscience using alternate model animals such as zebrafish (Danio rerio), marine chordates (Ascidian sp.) and echinoderms (Asterias sp). Our research activity mainly focuses in understanding the biomechanism of regeneration and degeneration in these model animals involving proteomics and transcriptomics approaches. Regeneration of appendages in zebrafish, nervous tissue in ascidians and arms in Asterias sp. are few of the important ongoing research activities in my lab. We are also interested in understanding the molecular and functional mechanism of neurodegeneration in zebrafish; due to triplet repeat expansion as like in spino cerebellar ataxia, chronic unpredictable stress as like in anxiety related mood disorders and chemicals as in Parkinson’s disease.