Attributions

No project can be completed without the help of people from outside and ours is not an exception. We were lucky to find some really helpful people who generously gave us valuable guidance and assistance from time to time at various stages of project development. Team iGEM IISER Kolkata finds it a privilege to thank them.

Principal Investigators

Dr. Babu Sudhamalla
Primary Investigator for the project, who helped to mediate all the official proceedings with iGEM Headquarters and IISER Kolkata.
Dr. Sreeramiah Gangappa
Secondary Investigator, who helped us to troubleshoot many of the wet lab protocols.
Dr. Dipjyoti Das
Helped us to develop the mathematical model.

Brainstorming sessions

Dr. Tapas Kumar Sengupta
His valuable inputs in the initial critical project evaluation played a very crucial role in giving a shape to the project proposal.
Dr. Rupak Dutta
Being an active researcher in the field of Leishmania parasite, his experience helped us to decide the feasibility of the project.
iGEM 2018 team members.

Our support system

Dr. Partho Sarthi Ray
Without his valuable guidance and critical inputs in the troubleshooting of the wet lab work, it wouldn't have been possible to complete this project.
Dr. G. Lekha, Lab Instructor
Our lab instructor, who constantly guided us through all the basic and advanced protocols of molecular biology laboratory.
Mr. Debabrata Sutradhar
He mediated the laboratory reagents and consumables orders and took care of all the institute formalities for the same.
Arunava Seth, who helped us to design all the Leishmania and macrophage experiments.
Animish Nilesh Vaze
Diptatanu Das
Hrishika Rai

Lab space

Department of Biological Sciences, IISER Kolkata, which provided us with lab space and scientific equipment required for the successful completion of the project.
Dr. Rupak Dutta's Lab, who generously provided all the specific facilities required to work with Leishmania and macrophage cultures.
Dr. Jayasri Das Sharma, Dr. Rahul Das, Dr. Amirul Mallick and Dr. Malancha Ta, who generously allowed us to use their lab equipment.

External support

Dr. Nahid Ali, who gave detailed insights about the occurrence of Leishmaniasis in our country and the risk posed to the society.