ATTRIBUTIONS
We would firstly like to extend our gratitude to our Vice Chancellor, Prof. Rupamanjari Ghosh her constant guidance and motivation. We would like to thank the iBEC grant offered by the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India for the monetary support. We are very grateful to Dr. C.V. Tomy and Prof. Deepak Sehgal for providing us with institutional support. We would like to thank our PIs Dr. Rohini Garg and Dr. Richa Priyadarshini for their constant support and motivation during the course of this project. Their guidance during project initiation, planning, grant funding, troubleshooting and developing wet lab strategies has been very crucial for the project. We would like to thank our team mentors Surabhi Singh and Deepa Sethi for their constant support and helping us with wet lab work such as molecular cloning and characterization of parts.
We would also like to thank the following people for, taking out time from their schedule and helping us with different aspects of our project
Students
- Jyoti Chauhan and Sayantan Maity for their guidance and assisstance in chemical analysis, enzyme assays and LC-MS measurement of metabolites
- Mudassar Ali for his help in troubleshooting PCR and wet lab work
- Himanshi Sharma for her help in molecular cloning
- Tanya Mathur for her assisstance in molecular cloning
- Abhiroop Paul for helping us design the team logo
Professors
- Dr. Koyeli Mapa for her advice on strategy and troubleshooting
- Dr. Basab Dhar for his guidance during metabolite detection by LC-MS
- Dr. Kshatresh Dutta Dubey for his advice on molecular modelling
- Prof. Suneel Katariya for his advice on algae culture and troubleshooting
- Prof. Jyoti Sharma for helping us with integrated human practices and helping us understand the ecological aspects associated with algae and water pollution by endocrine disrupting compounds
- Dr. Charu Sharma and Dr. Samit Bhattacharya for their advice on mathematical model improvement
We would also like to thank our sponsors IDT, Twist Biosciences, Department of Biotechnology (Government of India) and Shiv Nadar University.