Ongoing Projects

• Physiological and pharmacological significance of formate-nitrite transporters in Toxoplasma gondii: ICMR Research Grant.
• Lipid and cyclic nucleotide signaling in Toxoplasma gondii: Wellcome Trust – DBT (India Alliance) Senior Fellowship.
• Optogenetic Illumination of Toxoplasma Lytic Cycle: Indo-Japan Scholar Mobility Program (@Osaka University, Japan).
• Computational Identification of Therapeutic Targets and AI-based Drug Repurposing in Parasitic Protists: Cross Disciplinary Research Fund by BITS, Pilani (co-PI: Poonam Goyal and Aneesh Chivukula).
• Sustained Illumination of Natural Environment: BioCyTiH Foundation, India.
• Proteomics-based identification of host determinants and diagnostic biomarkers of Toxoplasma infection: Indo-German Science & Technology Cooperation (IGSTC) Women in Science, Engineering and Research (WISER) Program with Dr. Ute Distler (University of Mainz, Germany).
• Optogenetic regulation of parasite signaling: Indo-German Science & Technology Cooperation (IGSTC) Women in Science, Engineering and Research (WISER) Program with Dr. Özlem Günay-Esiyok (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany).

Previous Grants

• Biosensor monitoring in Toxoplasma gondii: Indo-Japan Scholar Mobility Program by DST-JSPS (co-PI, Takeharu Nagai @ Osaka University, Japan).
• Pyruvate homeostasis in Toxoplasma gondii: DST-SERB Core Research Grant.
• A novel lipid-regulated calcium homeostasis in Toxoplasma gondii. German Research Foundation.
• Functional and physiological significance of phosphatidylethanolamine biogenesis in Toxoplasma gondii:  German Research Foundation.
• Cyclic nucleotides-mediated ion homeostasis in the malaria parasite:  German Research Foundation; co-PI: Alexander Maier (ANU).
• Metabolic basis of obligate intracellular parasitism: German Research Foundation.
• Optogenetic dissection of cyclic NMP signaling T. gondii: German Research Foundation, co-PI: Peter Hegemann.
• Cyclic NMP signaling and metabolic regulation in T. gondii: German Research Foundation.
• Synthesis vs. import of host-derived phospholipids by T. gondii: German Research Foundation; co-PI: Maik Lehmann.
• Carbon metabolisms of acute and chronic stages of T. gondii: German Research Foundation.
• Phosphatidylcholine synthesis as a drug target in T. gondii: Young scientist grant from European Society of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology.
• Biogenesis of inositol-lipids in T. gondii: German Research Foundation, co-PI: Andreas Herrmann (HU, Berlin).
• Modeling of lipid biogenesis in Toxoplasma-infected human cell: German Research Foundation, co-PIs: Herrmann Holzhütter (Charité, Berlin) and Richard Lucius (HU, Berlin).
• High-throughput anti-coccidian drug screening using YFP-parasite, Novartis Animal Healthcare, co-PI: Richard Lucius (HU, Berlin).
• In vivo parasite-host interactions in the Eimeria-mouse model. Manuela Schmid (doctoral student) & Nishith Gupta (host PI), Helmholtz Foundation.
• Central carbon metabolism of T. gondii. Martin Blume (doctoral student) & Nishith Gupta (host PI), Helmholtz Foundation.