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, and Nitish's deputy on command. 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 practises work that was taken up.

Gopinath is a third year student of Biological Engineering, out to explore genetic engineering. He led the human practises 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.

Mentors

Dr. Shashi Bala Prasad(Senior Scientist at Bioincubator)

Prof. Guhan Jayaraman(IIT Madras)

Prof. Nitish R Mahapatra

for their faith and help throughout the entire course of our work. We would also like to thank them for giving us permission to use the facilities at Bioincubator IIT Madras.

Sponsorship

IIT Madras Alumni Association (IITMAA) [http://iitmaa.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=1]

(IDT) We would also like to place on record, our gratitude to for providing us with financial support throughout our work with this project. We would also like to thank IDT for supplying us with DNA parts.

Department of Biotechnology, IIT Madras

iBEC, DBT, India

Others

Dr. Suvro Chatterjee, [http://bio.au-kbc.org/faculty/suvro/ 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.igem.org/Team:IISc_Bangalore 2016] for characterizing our part.

SVCE Chennai[Team:SVCE_CHENNAI 2016] for arranging an iGEM meetup.

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

Random people doing HP work for igem t-shirt.