In this overview talk, I aim to introduce the audience to the Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology (IBAB), Bengaluru in terms of its highly inter-disciplinary Ph.D. program. In addition, IBAB provides a unique environment to foster entrepreneurship amongst all levels of students by serving as an incubation centre in the Biotech Park at Bengaluru – the exposure at IBAB opens up opportunities for Ph.D. graduates to smoothly transition into industry into roles other than the traditional academic faculty roles as well. This talk aims to expose the upcoming graduates in B.Tech, M. Tech and M.Sc. programs to consider Ph.D. opportunities in IBAB as the institute grows in its research repertoire and academy-industry partnerships at the interface of physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics and engineering. I will briefly outline the various areas currently being investigated as well detail the type of scientific questions my research group at IBAB is working on. Specifically, I will outline my research group questions and recent findings in the broad area of quantum phenomena in biology involving electronic excitation energy transfer in photosynthetic light harvesting complexes, photoprotection mechanisms in the crystallin family of proteins and weak interactions in biomolecules.