Team:IISc-Bangalore/Attributions

Attributions

The Indian Institute of Science iGEM 2019 team was responsible for most of the aspects of running the show, with help received from various people. Said help received from all these sources which enabled us to bring our project this far are highly appreciated and acknowledged below:

Project support and advice

Mentors:

Primary PI: Prof. Utpal Nath

Prof. Utpal Nath

We would like to express our immense gratitude to professor Utpal Nath for his constant support and guidance throughout the project. He made sure we got our funds and helped us deal with the administrative work.

Advisor: Prof. Dipshikha Chakravortty

Prof. Dipshikha Chakravortty

We would like to thank professor Dipshikha Chakravortty for her guidance and reviews on our project idea and presentation. She also provided us with access to her lab to carry out certain protocols.

Access and Inputs :

We would like to express our gratitude to:

  • Rachit Agarwal (IISc, Bangalore) for his help and inputs during our brainstorming phase and also for providing his reviews of our presentation.
  • Axel Brockmann (NCBS, Bangalore) for help and inputs during our brainstorming phase.
  • Hardik J. Pandya (IISc, Bangalore) for providing us insight into engineering-related aspects of our project and providing us equipment required for engineering.
  • T. V. Ramachandra (IISc, Bangalore) for providing us insight into aspects regarding the current systems of lake rejuvenation and treatment of waste water.
  • Umesh Varshney (IISc, Bangalore) for giving his reviews of our project idea during the early phase of our project and later of the presentation.
  • D. Narasimha Rao (IISc, Bangalore) for giving his reviews of our project idea during the early phase of our project and later of the presentation.
  • Raghavan Varadarajan (IISc, Bangalore) for providing lab access.
  • Kaushik Chatterjee (IISc, Bangalore) for providing us insight into potential applications of our project in tissue engineering.
  • Harini Nagendra (Azim Premji University, Bangalore) for providing us important ecological perspectives about wastewater treatment and biosafety.
  • Srinath Thiruneelakantan (GenoPhe Biotech) for reviewing our project.
  • Jayant Modak (IISc, Bangalore) for helping us with the mathematical modelling of our system.
  • Sachin Kotak (IISc, Bangalore) for providing us insight into current cell counting methods.
  • Indu (UV Lab) for lab assistance.
  • Atish (DC Lab) for lab support and assistance with complicated protocol.
  • Debapriya (DC Lab) for lab assistance..
  • Akshay and Abhilash (DC Lab) for lab support.
  • Shahbaz and Gopinath (RV Lab) for lab support and assistance with unfamiliar protocls.
  • Giridhar (Junior Research Fellow) for lab support.
  • Praveena Mullapudi ma’am for letting us access equipment from the Physics lab for engineering purposes.
  • Deepthi ma’am and Vinod sir for providing us access to the third semester UG lab, fifth semester UG lab and the instrumentation room.
  • Gokul Rangarajan for providing us access to the first year Physics lab for engineering purposes and supporting us with respect to our work.
  • Padma Priya ma’am for helping us in placing necessary orders for lab-related consumables.
  • Sahana Rao and Shashank Raghu (IISc Alumni) for reviewing our project, passing on the IHP surveys and providing general advice.
  • CeNSE Labs for allowing us to access their zeta potential equipment.
  • Aaditya Kadambar (UG 2nd year student, IISc) for giving us your valuable inputs during our brainstorming phase and for your support with our initial project idea.
  • Anooj Sathyan (UG 2nd year student, IISc) for his help (and patience) with taking pictures of our team.
  • Sudarshan R (UG 2nd year student, IISc) for assistance in Human practices.

Administrative and Funding support

We would like to express our gratitude to:

  • Prof. P.S.Anil Kumar (Dean, IISc UG) for his constant support and administrative help. He helped us gain access to various labs and necessary equipment.
  • The Office of the Undergraduate Programme (IISc, Bangalore) for helping us handle finances and accounts. Nandini ma’am, who mainly dealt with this job, deserves a special mention.
  • The Finance Office (IISc, Bangalore) for their timely transmissions to us of the registration fees and dealing with other finance-related matters (as the name suggests).
  • The Office of the Director (IISc, Bangalore) for providing us financial support.

Human Practices support

We would like to express our gratitude to:

  • Bitasta Das (IISc, Bangalore) for helping us with Human Practices in general and putting us in touch with relevant people.
  • Siddharth Kankaria (NCBS, Bangalore) for providing us with ideas for effective science communication.
  • National Public School, Yeshwantpur, Bangalore for letting us present our work and enlighten their students with various synthetic biology-related concepts. Ms Papiya Dutta, who helped in making this interactive session possible, deserves a special mention.
  • National Public School, Rajajinagar, Bangalore for letting us present our work and enlighten their students with various synthetic biology-related concepts.
  • Kendriya Vidyalaya, IISc, for sending their students to a three-day workshop (MinterLab) on synthetic biology organized by us.
  • Bio-Innovation Centre, Bangalore for agreeing to meet up with us and discuss our project. They also provided us with insights into how our project can be useful in various industries. They provided reviews and gave us certain suggestions regarding our project.

General Guidance

We are indebted to our SENIORS for their help in the formation of the team and wise insights in the working of the team, timing, and wiki-construction. We are very thankful to them for sharing their experience as iGEM team members which helped us a lot in taking various decisions throughout the project. We also thank them for giving us their opinions during the brainstorming sessions, of our project idea, presentation, and poster.
We would like to thank Gopal for making sure all our equipment was in good shape.
Last but not least, we would like to thank all those people who took part in our surveys. We would also like to thank all those people who attended our progress presentations and gave their reviews of them.