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We'd like to thank everyone who supported and helped us over the course of the last few months, not only for making iGEM possible, but for guiding us and helping our idea come to fruition.
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== The Team ==
<p>This page is used by the judges to evaluate your team for the <a href="https://2016.igem.org/Judging/Medals">Attributions bronze criterion</a>. </p>
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'''Nitish''' is a final year Biological Sciences student and the leader of our iGEM team, and extremely passionate about Synthetic Biology. The design of the RIBOS switch was his brainchild. He has excellent experimental knowledge both in wet lab and computational work. Nitish loves cloning, and he snapped up every opportunity he got to perform them.
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'''Venkat''' is a final year Biological Engineering student. He worked with Nitish on several experiments, including measurement studies, plasmid isolations and computational modelling. He also wrote the code for our mobile game, and helped set the design and style of the wiki and its content.
<p> Each team must clearly attribute work done by the student team members on this page. The team must distinguish work done by the students from work done by others, including the host labs, advisors, instructors, and individuals not on the team roster. </p>
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'''Karthik''' is a third year student of Biological Sciences who is a beginner in Synthetic Biology. He mostly contributed towards the design of graphics, wiki and the game Codonut (for Android). He also lent a hand to the human practices work that was taken up.
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'''Gopinath''' is a third year student of Biological Engineering, out to explore Genetic Engineering. He led the human practices activities, including the survey, conversations with government bodies & NGOs, awareness campaigns and interactive sessions in schools.
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<p>The Attribution requirement helps the judges know what you did yourselves and what you had help with. We don't mind if you get help with difficult or complex techniques, but you must report what work your team did and what work was done by others.</p>
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'''Nikhita''' is a second year student of Biological Sciences, a Synthetic Biology enthusiast. She was involved in graphic design and the GMO survey. She has had a great learning experience so far and hopes to contribute more to iGEM in the upcoming years.
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For example, you might choose to work with an animal model during your project. Working with animals requires getting a license and applying far in advance to conduct certain experiments in many countries. This is difficult to achieve during the course of a summer, but much easier if you can work with a postdoc or PI who has the right licenses.</p>
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'''Nikunj''' is a third year undergraduate of biological sciences, who is an enthusiast in Molecular Biology. He helped in wet-lab experiments. Under human practices, he conducted a session on GM crops for primary school children in a small village in Madhya Pradesh.
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== Mentors ==
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'''Dr. Shashi Bala Prasad'''(Senior Scientist at Bioincubator) is our Instructor, we are grateful to her for keeping track of our progress and troubleshooting our wet-lab problems. She is an expert in Genetic Engineering and works as a Senior Scientist in Bioincubator, IIT Madras.
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<li>Project support and advice</li>
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'''[https://biotech.iitm.ac.in/faculty/guhan-jayaraman Prof. Guhan Jayaraman]'''is our Secondary PI, we are thankful to him for encouraging our team through out the project and for teaching 'Synthetic Biology' course, which educated us about iGEM. He is a professor in Department of Biotechnology, IIT Madras. He is an expert in Metabolic Engineering.
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'''[https://biotech.iitm.ac.in/faculty/nitish-r-mahapatra/ Prof. Nitish R Mahapatra]'''is our Primary PI, we are grateful to him for mentoring our team as primary PI. He has been always helpful to us. He is a professor in Department of Biotechnology, IIT Madras. He works on Cardio-Vascular Genetics.
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== Others ==
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'''[http://bio.au-kbc.org/faculty/suvro/ Dr. Suvro Chatterjee'''] AU-KBC and his Ph.D. student '''Akila''' for providing fluorescence microscope facility.
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<li> Thanks and acknowledgements for all other people involved in helping make a successful iGEM team</li>
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'''[https://home.iitm.ac.in/kraman/lab/ Dr. Karthik Raman,]'''Assistant Professor, Department of Biotechnology, IIT Madras for validating our modelling methods and results.
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'''Abrar''' and '''Shakti''' for helping us out in ordering consumables and bill processing respectively.
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'''[https://2016.igem.org/Team:IISc_Bangalore/ IISC Banglore 2016]''' for characterizing our part.
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<h5> Can we base our project on a previous one? </h5>
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'''[https://2016.igem.org/Team:SVCE_CHENNAI/ SVCE Chennai 2016]''' for arranging an iGEM meetup.
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'''[https://2016.igem.org/Team:Hong_Kong_HKUST Hong Kong HKUST]''' for collaborating with us.
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'''[http://www.bioincubator-iitm.in/ Bioincubtor IIT Madras]''' for providing fluorescence plate reader facility.
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<p>Take a look at what other teams have done:</p>
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'''Vinayak''' and '''Rachana''' for helping with our education outreach.
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<li><a href="https://2011.igem.org/Team:Imperial_College_London/Team">2011 Imperial College London</a> (scroll to the bottom)</li>
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'''Vana Vani''' Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Chennai, Tamilnadu, for permitting our team members to educate the school children about our project, GM technology and Synthetic Biology.
<li><a href="https://2014.igem.org/Team:Exeter/Attributions">2014 Exeter </a></li>
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<li><a href="https://2014.igem.org/Team:Melbourne/Attributions">2014 Melbourne </a></li>
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'''Primary School''', Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India for permitting our team members to educate the school children about bacteria and an overview of our project.
<li><a href="https://2014.igem.org/Team:Valencia_Biocampus/Attributions">2014 Valencia Biocampus</a></li>
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'''Vishnu''', a Ph.D. student in Department of Biotechnology, IIT Madras for lyophilizing our DNA samples.   
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== Sponsors ==
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<h5>Team training and Project start</h5>
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[http://iitmaa.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=1|'''IIT Madras Alumni Association (IITMAA)'''] for providing funds for registration and travel & accommodation expenses for our team members.
<p>Tell us if your institution teaches an iGEM or synthetic biology class and when you started your project:</p>
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'''[https://eu.idtdna.com/order/order.aspx IDT]''' for supplying us DNA worth 20kb gBlocks for free.
<li>Does your institution teach an iGEM or synthetic biology course?</li>
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<li>When did you start this course?</li>
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'''[http://biotech.iitm.ac.in/ Department of Biotechnology, IIT Madras]''' for providing us lab facilities, equipment and FACS for fluorescence measurement.
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<li>When did you start your brainstorming?</li>
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'''[http://syntheticbioindia.weebly.com/ibec-2016.html iBEC, DBT, India]''' for providing us funds upto 10 lac rupee
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<li>When did you start working on  your project?</li>
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Latest revision as of 22:12, 19 October 2016

Attributions

We'd like to thank everyone who supported and helped us over the course of the last few months, not only for making iGEM possible, but for guiding us and helping our idea come to fruition.

The Team

Nitish is a final year Biological Sciences student and the leader of our iGEM team, and extremely passionate about Synthetic Biology. The design of the RIBOS switch was his brainchild. He has excellent experimental knowledge both in wet lab and computational work. Nitish loves cloning, and he snapped up every opportunity he got to perform them.

Venkat is a final year Biological Engineering student. He worked with Nitish on several experiments, including measurement studies, plasmid isolations and computational modelling. He also wrote the code for our mobile game, and helped set the design and style of the wiki and its content.

Karthik is a third year student of Biological Sciences who is a beginner in Synthetic Biology. He mostly contributed towards the design of graphics, wiki and the game Codonut (for Android). He also lent a hand to the human practices work that was taken up.

Gopinath is a third year student of Biological Engineering, out to explore Genetic Engineering. He led the human practices activities, including the survey, conversations with government bodies & NGOs, awareness campaigns and interactive sessions in schools.

Nikhita is a second year student of Biological Sciences, a Synthetic Biology enthusiast. She was involved in graphic design and the GMO survey. She has had a great learning experience so far and hopes to contribute more to iGEM in the upcoming years.

Nikunj is a third year undergraduate of biological sciences, who is an enthusiast in Molecular Biology. He helped in wet-lab experiments. Under human practices, he conducted a session on GM crops for primary school children in a small village in Madhya Pradesh.

Mentors

Dr. Shashi Bala Prasad(Senior Scientist at Bioincubator) is our Instructor, we are grateful to her for keeping track of our progress and troubleshooting our wet-lab problems. She is an expert in Genetic Engineering and works as a Senior Scientist in Bioincubator, IIT Madras.

Prof. Guhan Jayaramanis our Secondary PI, we are thankful to him for encouraging our team through out the project and for teaching 'Synthetic Biology' course, which educated us about iGEM. He is a professor in Department of Biotechnology, IIT Madras. He is an expert in Metabolic Engineering.

Prof. Nitish R Mahapatrais our Primary PI, we are grateful to him for mentoring our team as primary PI. He has been always helpful to us. He is a professor in Department of Biotechnology, IIT Madras. He works on Cardio-Vascular Genetics.

Others

[http://bio.au-kbc.org/faculty/suvro/ Dr. Suvro Chatterjee] AU-KBC and his Ph.D. student Akila for providing fluorescence microscope facility.

Dr. Karthik Raman,Assistant Professor, Department of Biotechnology, IIT Madras for validating our modelling methods and results.

Abrar and Shakti for helping us out in ordering consumables and bill processing respectively.

IISC Banglore 2016 for characterizing our part.

SVCE Chennai 2016 for arranging an iGEM meetup.

Hong Kong HKUST for collaborating with us.

[http://www.bioincubator-iitm.in/ Bioincubtor IIT Madras] for providing fluorescence plate reader facility.

Vinayak and Rachana for helping with our education outreach.

Vana Vani Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Chennai, Tamilnadu, for permitting our team members to educate the school children about our project, GM technology and Synthetic Biology.

Primary School, Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India for permitting our team members to educate the school children about bacteria and an overview of our project.

Vishnu, a Ph.D. student in Department of Biotechnology, IIT Madras for lyophilizing our DNA samples.

Sponsors

[http://iitmaa.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=1|IIT Madras Alumni Association (IITMAA)] for providing funds for registration and travel & accommodation expenses for our team members.

IDT for supplying us DNA worth 20kb gBlocks for free.

[http://biotech.iitm.ac.in/ Department of Biotechnology, IIT Madras] for providing us lab facilities, equipment and FACS for fluorescence measurement.

[http://syntheticbioindia.weebly.com/ibec-2016.html iBEC, DBT, India] for providing us funds upto 10 lac rupee

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