Team

Vikram Venugopal

Team Lead

Aditi Palo

Team Lead

Atharva Valanju

Wetlab Head

Grishma Mehta

Wetlab Head

Ryth Dasgupta

Drylab Head

Pooja Kuruvilla

Human Practices Head

Uyyashrinila P

Documentation Head

Ishani Hira

Sponsorship Head

Anwesha Raychaudhuri

Measurement and Safety Head

Somdatta Naskar

Social Media Head

Sneha Jain

Design Head

Ruchir Sahni

Entrepreneurship Head

Paarth Dudani

Team Member

Prof. Saikrishnan Kayarat

Primary PI

Dr. Mridula Nambiar

Secondary PI

Azorah

Mascot

3 AM mood: Giving out obscure trivia gyaan about the etymology of words.
3 AM mood: Hysterically laughing while assuring you in vain that I am neither a serial killer nor am I high.
3 AM mood: Contemplating why I am still awake and coming up with excuses to go to sleep.
3AM mood: I haven't been awake at 3 AM to figure it out but iGEM will definitely change this. (And it did)
3 AM mood: What's happening?
3 AM mood: Preferably drooling while sleeping.
3 AM mood: Constantly shifting from "What is consciousness?" to "Quack quack, I am a duck." Might also cry over how penguins are affected by global warming.
3AM mood: Wishing for a sleep-wake cycle resembling Homo sapiens.
3 AM mood: Spilling milkshakes and teas, preferably on myself.
3AM mood: Spreading optimism and jumping all around to encourage people to stay energetic.
3 AM mood: "Let there be a wiki!"
3 AM mood: Speaking random gibberish which turns out to be deeply philosophical. Might also laugh at anything and everything.
3AM mood: I am either, too ambitious and driven to change myself and the world or too sleepdrunk to care about anything whatsoever.
Prof. Saikrishnan Kayarat is a structural biologist and a Professor in the Department of Biology in Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune (IISER, Pune). He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology for the year 2019 in Biological Sciences.
Dr. Mridula Nambiar obtained her PhD from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India on the mechanisms of genomic fragility in leukemia and lymphoma. She then moved to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, USA where she worked on understanding the spatial control of meiotic recombination events on yeast chromosomes. She joined IISER Pune as an Assistant Professor in 2020.
Azorah is the cute little mascot of our project. It's our symbol of hope in the darkness of waterlogging :).