Team:IISER-Pune-India/Attributions

IISER-Pune-Attributions

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Chinmay Patwardhan The light in our darkness, our team leader! He has handled finances and all the administrative work of the project. He headed many collaborations with other iGEM teams. In the science department, he was involved in the construction of biobricks. He also helped in the video-making process of our project!

Lakshmi Sriram Human Practices Co-Head. She was involved in everything HP, from organizing expert interviews to documenting their feedback. She was also involved in most of our outreach activities. She helped us design the Ni-NTA protein binding assay and helped edit the wiki. She helped with presentations too!

Anantha S Rao As the dry lab head, Anantha has led the modeling team. He worked on the 5MZA interaction. He was also involved in sponsorship and developing software for the diagnostics module. He remains omnipresent in every aspect of the project!

Gunwant Patil Being the Wet-Lab lead for our project, Gunwant headed the design of all our wet lab experiments. His presence was also seen in sponsorship proposals, HP survey forms and the Safety form.

Jatin Bedi Your very own wiki-editor who's writing this. As a wet-lab member, he was involved in biobrick construction for 4U0Q interaction and PCR documentation. He helped in the entire wiki making process and handled the team's social media handles. He also conducted a synthetic biology module for students as a part of science communication.

Rupal Gehlot She was very involved in Human Practices. She hosted a radio show on All India Radio to spread awareness about Malaria and co-hosted a webinar for school students for the same. She was responsible for documenting the IC50 assay and the standardization of the IC50 assay and the BCA protein assay. Rupal handled social media handles and helped in collaborations as well.

Merrin Vincent Primarily a wet-lab member, she was involved in biobrick construction for 4V3D interaction and its documentation in the registry. She also documented the protocol for RBC invasion assay and Site Directed Mutagenesis. Aside from wet lab, she also helped in translating our survey.

Misaal Bedi Acting as the content head, she was responsible for wiki content across departments and any writeups the team needed. As Human Practices Co-Head, she was a part of most outreach activities and collaborations. She was also a part of the videography team for the project and helped in the safety form.

Avadhoot Jadhav He acted as the measurement committee head. He was involved in biobrick construction for 5LGD interaction and its documentation in the registry. He designed biobricks for host and parasite proteins. He also documented and verified parts for registry submission. Apart from this, he helped in translating our survey and documenting cloning assembly techniques.

Saillesh Chinnaraj He was involved in biobrick construction for 4U0Q interaction and its documentation in the registry. He headed the diagnostics aspect of the project and also worked on the safety form.

Abdul Rishad Wiki-head and a dry lab member, Abdul modelled the 4U0Q interaction in-silico. Abdul was responsible for designing the beautiful subpages you see!

Antony Kiran K David As a dry lab member, Antony was involved in modeling the 5LGD reaction in-silico. He also assisted us in some experimental details.

Akshay Kunnavil He was involved in modeling the 4V3D interaction in-silico. Akshay was also involved with developing our promotional video!

Aleena Jose As a dry lab member, she was involved in the modeling of 6S8U interaction. She helped in survey translations and collaborations with other iGEM teams, and was involved with the Human Practices team as well.


Every member of the team was involved in documenting the pages in our wiki

Dr. Sanjeev Galande Sanjeev is our Primary Investigator. This project has been possible only due to his constant guidance and support!

Varsha Jaisimha Varsha has constantly guided us right from our brainstorming days till Wiki-freeze. We really learnt a lot from her past experience of competing in iGEM!

Krishnendu Roy He helped the team in developing and conceptualizing assays.

Vinayak Sadasivam Vinayak contributed intellectually to the entire project design and trained some team members to work independently in a laboratory set up.

Rashim Malhotra She worked in formulating the hypothesis based on scientific observations in the field of Plasmodium. She helped design experiments to test the hypothesis and collate relevant literature.

Anirudh Pillai He helped throughout the experimental design and familiarized the team with the cloning protocol.

Tejashree Kanitkar Our very cool Dry lab mentor guided and advised us in all of the computational modelling aspects of the project.

Ayush Madhok Helped us figure out and optimise several wetlab procedures in the time of need. Cloning in such a short period of time wouldn't have been possible without him.

Abhishek Kanyal He helped us in writing the protocol for the IC50 Assay

Dr. Karmodiya Krishanpal He provided us access to wetlab.

Jhelam Deshpande Jhelam helped us in writing the code for IC50 value calculation.

Jitesh Seth He helped us understand the analysis of IC50 assay.

Dr. Neelesh He helped us in setting up the wetlab.

Dr. Sunish Radhakrishnan He helped us brainstorm ideas in the early stages of the project.

Dr. Madhusudhan MS He helped us with the modelling works of the project.

Dr. Sagar Pandit He helped us decide on our preliminary project idea.

Yuv Agarwal Yuv was responsible for dry lab work and initial conceptualisation of the project idea.

Ranjana Nataraj She helped us brainstorm ideas and was a big part of conceptualising our initial project idea.

Poornima Raveendran She helped us with the diagnostic kit.

Gulzar Gulzar gave us constructive critcism on the wiki design process.

Kirubeswaran O.R He helped us in testing and building the diagnostics software

Dr. Priyanka Devgun She re-designed and refined our public health awareness strategy.

Dr Dionicia Gamboa She helped us explore the diagnostics aspect more deeply and helped us decide on the mode of intake of our drug.

Dr Thirumalaisamy P Velavan He helped us finalize on working towards the falciparum strain instead of vivax.

Dr David Norman He helped us graft our designed inhibitors into the cyclotide backbone and perform MD simulations on it.

Sriram Raghavendran He helped us refine our diagnostics kit.

Dr. Nilofar Bijali, Dr. Rituja Sardesai, Dr Akshay Wagh, Dr. Roshani Rameshwar Sagane They gave us valuable feedback on our diagnostics kit.

Aharna Sarkar for all the beautiful illustrations without which this website wouldn't be what it is!

Purva Parmar for being an immense help in the wiki coding process, without which we wouldn't have been able to debug anything!

Shivani Deshpande for helping us in wet lab experiments and her contributions to the Malaria song.

Srijay Sutar, Shaswat Nair, and Ningnung Jakoinao for bringing life to the Malaria song!

Jezer Jojo for the soundtrack of the promotion video and the project video.

Sanjana Vasanth and Ritvee T. for helping with a lot of the design process, including the logo, posters, merchandise, and the presentation videos.

Kunjal Parnami for designing our merchandise.

Ipsa Bezbarua, Visal Gosh, Shrutika Lokapure, Mihir Neve, Karthik Vashist, Ningnung Jakoinao, Sabareesh, Shreyas Adury, Krishna Chaitanya, Amita Prajna Mallik, Thushar S.M, Swastik Biswas and Riddhi Manna For helping us translate our survey into vernacular languages.

Pallav Khandekar, Vishnupriya S for helping us take our group photos.

Ketto and all the donations we received through it The crowd funding platform we used for raising funds for our project.

Mrs. Shubhangi Wankhede for helping us reach out to potential sponsors.

Team USP-Brazil 2019 for connecting us with the Team UPCH_Peru 2020.

Team UPCH_Peru 2020 for getting us in touch with Dr Gamboa.

Team Tuebingen 2020 for getting us in touch with Dr Velavan.

Team MSP-Maastricht 2020 for the helping us publish our works in the two iGEM journals.

Team IISER_Berhampur 2020 for co-organising the Malaria outreach webinar.

Dr. Shanti Kalipatnapu for helping us publish articles in the media about our project as part of science communication.

All India Radio for helping us organise and air the radio show.

Ramya Narayanan for helping us with the STS outreach program.