Our most sincere and heartfelt gratitude to our Principal Investigators Dr. Apurba Lal Koner, Dr. Ankur Gupta, our Project adviser Dr. Lavanya Bhagavatula and Project instructor Dr. Sandeep Raut for their tremendous support, guidance, advice and help without which our project wouldn't be what it is. There are plenty of other people who we are indebted to for their support:
- Our home institute, IISER Bhopal for providing us with monetary support, a space for working and consumables during the course of our project. We are indebted to them for beleiving in our project right from the beginning
- Bio UG lab staff: Mr. Anbumani D, Mrs. Anshulata Bhoite, Mrs. Poonam Chandra, Mr. Neeraj Kumar Dubey, Mr. Yashwant Bhargava, Mr. Pritam Ahirwar and Mr. Sunil Meena for helping us around in the lab during experiments and in giving us tips and suggestions throughout.
- Dr. Sourav Datta and his lab members (particularly Mr. Debojyoti Kar) for providing us with guidance and assistance and letting us use resources from his lab. His support, including technical, helped us get through finishing project.
- Dr. Chandan Sahi for supporting us in our project every step of the way, through our brightest and dullest days. His lab members, for providing us access to his laboratory and materials that we needed throughout the project. And also providing us with technical assistance and helped us with troubleshooting whenever an experiment failed (which they did, quite a bit!)
- Dr. Ram Kumar Mishra for providing us with invaluable technical guidance/assistance and always being there for troubleshooting our problems whenever they occurred.
- Dr. Rati Sharma for guiding us and advising us on the Modelling aspect. She was instrumental in helping us find our way through the modelling project.
- Dr. Ajit Chande for the insights he provided us through an interview and constructive suggestions for our project.
- Dr. Ishaan Gupta for supporting us in our project. He was also instrumental in providing us contacts for IHP which tremendously helped our project.
- Dr. Vikas Jain for helpingus with our collaboration with IISER Tirupati. A special thanks to Ms. Varsha Patil, a Phd from his lab who actively giuded us for the same.
- Dr. Bharath Prithiviraj for being our esteemed chief guest and judging the main event at the All India iGEM Meet providing us his insights in microbiology through a very thought provoking and relevant talk.
- Ms. Nurul Izzati for making sure the message and values of iGEM reached all the iGEMers and giving them valuable advice for the Giant Jamboree.
- Dr. Abhishek Cukkemane for his insights towards tweaking our project and for judging the main event at the All India iGEM meet and providing teams with valuable feedback.
- Innovation and Incubation Center for Entrepreneurship (IICE) - for sponsoring and helping us organize the All India iGEM Meet. They also supported us by getting in touch with the right people for our IHP. We are also thankful to Dr. Amjad Hussain for taking time off his busy schedule listening to our various project pitches, helping us refine them and turn them into the project that is infront of you today.
- We are also thankful to certain members of our previous iGEM team for the invaluable support provided throughout the project. Thank you Mr. Tejas Somvanshi and Ms. Fathima Afsal for the sleepless nights you endured before and along with us.
- Mr. Kumar Tanay for giving us tips and suggestions for website development and helping the Modelling team.
- Mr. Shivam Shrivastava for taking up the major managerial aspect of the All India iGEM Meet and stepping up when it mattered most.
- Ms. Sonam Kulkarni for developing content for a significant part of the wiki page including Collaborations, Project Inspiration and Project Description.
- Mr. Arjav Jain for taking a splendid group photo.
