Biodiversity Lab Research Collections provide unmatched assets and resources to study India's incredible biodiversity using advances in evolutionary biology, ecology and systematics. They include world-class infrastructure, equipment, and advanced taxonomic, phylogenetic and genomic expertise needed for 21st century museum-based biodiversity research.

Our research in India's biodiversity hotspots is spearheading a remarkable number of species discoveries and advancing research in molecular systematics, biogeography, molecular evolution, and ecology, offering insights into the richness and complexity of Indian biodiversity. This work depends critically on research collections. The Biodiversity Lab Research Collections have state-of-the-art facilities to hold dry and wet specimens, deep-frozen DNA library, and other biodiversity-related materials. The work space provides microscopes, imaging station, specimen preparation space, computers, and other essential equipment and resources for museum work. This facility supports several multi-institutional, national and international collaborations in taxonomic discovery, molecular systematics, and evolutionary and conservation genetics, supported by leading natural history museums and biodiversity scientists.

We have extensive collaborations with prominent research institutions and museums across the world, such as the Zoological Survey of India (Kolkata), Indian Council of Agricultural Research (New Delhi), Natural History Museum (London), University Museum (University of Tokyo), Museum of Comparative Zoology (Harvard University), McGuire Centre for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity (Florida Museum of Natural History), University of British Columbia, and University of Connecticut. These collaborations serve national and global research networks to prepare phylogenies of several major clades of insects, spiders, and amphibians, especially the Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths), Cicadidae (cicadas), Salticidae (jumping spiders), and Coleoptera (beetles).