Team

Priyanshu Kumar Rai
Wiki, Design

BS 3rd year, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences(EECS)

The coolest guy in high-pres­sure sit­u­a­tions who man­aged to fin­ish the wiki in time af­ter typ­ing with just three fin­gers.

Raj Mishra
Wet Lab, Designing

BS-MS 3rd year, Department of Physics

From edit­ing over fifty gel im­ages to show­ing every­one food videos at 4 am, Raj made sure every­one was hun­gry at all times, es­pe­cially when there was­n’t any food.

Swagatika Moharana
Human Practices Lead, Wet Lab

BS-MS 3rd year, Department of Biological Sciences

Our su­per en­thu­si­as­tic team mem­ber. Swagatika knows how to cap­ture every­one’s at­ten­tion. She’s also be­hind our slo­gan, Parali Nahi Jalani Hai (Say no to Stubble Burning).”

Sameer Sharma
Dry Lab Lead, Wet Lab

BS-MS 3rd year, Department of Physics

Our in-house physi­cist who seemed fas­ci­nated by every in­stru­ment in our lab.

Swagatam Das
Dry Lab, Wet Lab

BS-MS 3rd year, Department of Biological Sciences

Boss. That’s it. That’s the word.

Ashwin Ananthanarayanan
Wet Lab, Content

BS-MS 4th year, Department of Biological Sciences

Our team’s most en­er­getic mem­ber. Ashwin may or may not have re­peated an ex­per­i­ment only 50 times.

Dhivisha Shende
Wet Lab, Outreach, Design

BS-MS 4th year, Department of Biological Sciences

The team mom. She makes sure every­one in the team is func­tion­ing as well as her ex­per­i­ments in the lab. Her laugh­ter is con­ta­gious.

Sakshi Wagle
Integrated Human Practices, Human Practices, SciComm

BS-MS 4th year, Department of Biological Sciences

Our beau­ti­ful Goan team mem­ber who’s al­ways ready to lend a hand at work and al­ways ready for a good chat once work’s over.

Uzair Motiwala
Team Leader, Wet lab, Human Practices

BS-MS 4th year, Department of Biological Sciences

Our Handsome team lead who dou­bled up as a tour guide at every place we vis­ited.

Vishal Prajapat
Wet Lab Lead, Human Practices

BS-MS 4th year, Department of Biological Sciences

Never wrote any wet lab ex­per­i­ments, just re­mem­bered them. What else can we say about Vishal? The only thing we’d hear him say is

#*%#^&&%#@$^&*#

Anushka Saqcena
Team Leader, Dry Lab, Design

BS-MS 4th year, Department of Biological Sciences

Our quiet but hard-work­ing team leader, you can hear Anushka’s lap­top keys clat­ter­ing over the sound of her voice.

Sampurna Roychoudhury
Content Writing, Wet lab

BS-MS 4th year, Department of Biological Sciences

Need a mas­sive para­graph to be con­verted into a short writeup? Or, as iGEM would say, to around 150 words? Sampurna is the per­son to go to. She also makes bor­ing text look aes­thetic.

Dr. Sourav Datta
Principle Investigator

The most im­por­tant part of our team, he mo­ti­vated us through his sci­en­tific in­puts, in­valu­able ad­vice and food.

Dr. Aasheesh Srivastava
Secondary Principle Investigator

Our brains be­hind bio­plas­tic.

Debojyoti Kar
Mentor

Our calmest team mem­ber. According to Deb,
five min­utes was enough for any task.

Arpan Mukherjee
Mentor

Our in-house singer. He al­ways man­aged to lighten up the mood with a soul­ful song.