• Handling Drosophila and Zebrafish as model systems
• Mammalian Cell culture
• Molecular Cloning
• Creation and implementaion of artificial constructs for conditional gene expression
• miRNA functional validations (overexpression/knockdown experiments)
• Reporter assays
• FACS analysis for cell cycle study
• Gene expression studies

                             RNA isolation from various biological samples - cell lines to mouse/human tissues
                             Real-time PCR
                             Affymetrix Microarray (experimental/data analysis)
                             Data analysis (EMBL advanced course on whole transcriptome data analysis using 
                                                R/bioconductor)

• Creation of genetic constructs in Drosophila (using UAS/GAL4 system)
• Basic light microscopy
• Blotting techniques

                             Northern blotiing
                             Southern blotting
                             Western blotting

• In situ hybridization
• High throughput profiling

                              High throughput PCR assays
                              High throughput miRNA profiling

• All basic bioinformatics skills except writing codes (have previous knowledge of code writing)