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
He was instrumental in mediating all the official proceedings with the iGEM Headquarters and IISER Kolkata. His patient guidance was helpful in keeping all aspects of the project running smoothly.
Dr. Sreeramiah Gangappa, Secondary Investigator
He helped us in troubleshooting many of the wet lab protocols and has been our greatest support system.
Dr. Dipjyoti Das, Secondary Investigator
He helped us in improvising our mathematical model.

Team contributions

Ipshita Gayen
She was actively taking part in all bacterial work and made new parts for the registry. She was also part of the collaboration team and made sure everyone did their work on time as team leader.
Pinaki Chanda
He mainly took part in wet lab involving leishmania parasites. He also guided the math modelling team by solving conceptual doubts regarding the genetic circuit.
Roohani Basavaraj
She worked on mostly wet lab working on the biobrick assembly. In the initial part, she worked on sponsorships, editing stuff on our proposal and reading literature to find a solution for this project. She was a great help in writing Collaborations and Safety. She went to CSIR to interview Nahid Ali as part of HP.
Urvashi Chitnavis
She was the leader of HP and was involved in creating activities to integrate human practices and outreach into our project, and organising the various events and interactions. Also, she was part of the wet lab team and helped in cloning.
Ravi Kiran Putchala
He was part of all wet lab experiments, specifically worked on the characterization of the bio-brick parts and nitric oxide quantification in stimulated and infected macrophage, Leishmania. He was also part of the human practices team.
Diptomit Biswas
He contributed in wet lab and all administration work involving our project.
Priyanuj Bordoloi
He headed the math modelling team. He modelled the iron chelation and phagocytosis aspects of the modelling. In addition, he helped in human practices by volunteering to go to villages for taking surveys.
Atharva Paranjape
He was part of the wet lab, math modelling and human practices team. He interviewed Sourav Banerjee, an expert on Leishmania parasite.
Aniruddh Deshpande
He was part of the math modelling team and designed and tuned the nitric oxide sensor in-silico. He has also helped the collaboration team by making the forms for surveys.
Angel Mary C T
She was part of the wet lab team helping the seniors with bacterial work and helped in cataloguing wet lab essentials.
Abhirami A G
She was part of the wet lab team helping the seniors with bacterial work and helped in cataloguing wet lab essentials.
Sumit Garai
He was part of the wet lab team helping the seniors. Also, he took the responsibility for graphic designing of the logo and wiki. He was the director of the street play which we made for our Integrated-Human Practices (IHP).

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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. Sourav Pal, Director of IISER Kolkata
Dr. Pal has been very encouraging in ensuring that the team and the project does not fall short of any resources required for a successful representation of the institute at iGEM 2019. We are eternally obliged to Dr. Pal for his constant support and encouragement.
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, Lab Instructor
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.
Dr. Arnab Gupta and his lab, especially Rutu Raj, for providing us the E.coli transformants with Human copper transporter 1 (hCTR1).
Animish Nilesh Vaze, Diptatanu Das and Hrishika Rai
They were our official advisors and also members of the iGEM 2018 team. Their experience helped us to identify many small errors in the experimental protocol. They also guided us through numerous official proceedings including the team registration and acquiring funds from the institute.
Rahul Subbaraman, for helping us in conducting the village surveys, as a part of human practices.
Collol and Tomol, from the Department of Chemical Sciences, for helping us in conducting Isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC).

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 for giving a detailed insights about the occurance of Leishmaniasis in our country and the risk posed to the society.
Sourav Banerjee, Senior Research Fellow working in the lab of Dr. Rupak Dutta, who gave us valuable insights regarding Leishmania life processes and iron balance mechanisms.

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