The Molecular Function Regulation Lab (M. Firdaus Raih research group) at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia is primarily involved in investigating the mechanisms of biological function regulation at the molecular level.

To achieve this, we explore:
(i) RNA biology - to investigate control of gene expression by RNA mediated systems;
(ii) Bacterial pathogenesis - to discover and understand mechanisms of how virulence and pathogenicity in bacteria are regulated;
(iii) Biological macromolecules involved in function regulation and molecular switching - such as post-translational modifications, DNA methylation and mechanisms of molecular switches eg. riboswitches.

The approaches we employ to investigate these key areas of interest include bioinformatics, X-ray crystallography, synthetic biology and systems biology.