Team:IISc-Bangalore/Team
Team
Team Members
Adithya Upadhya
Aditi Ajith Pujar
Adwaith B Uday
Adithya Upadhya
Adithya Upadhya is a math virtuoso. As disgusted as he looks in the picture above, he actually loves working for iGEM. Adithya's contribution to PhageShift can be found on our modelling page. When he's not fantasising about numbers, Adithya plays the guitar and caresses his hair.
Aditi Ajith Pujar
The conjuring of sentences of magnanimous proportions for the collective benefit of the team is a task accomplished by Aditi on grievously short notices. While some people put their foot down to get work done, Aditi gets a bulldozer and threatens to run you over with it. Aditi is working for the logistics team this year.
Adwaith B Uday
Adwaith is the sweetest guy in the team. Period. Often seen working on Interlab with Gokul under the hood. Adwaith is also a fantastic Carnatic singer and musician, capturing the hearts of listeners with his melodious voice and sick mridangam beats.
Anish Bhattacharya
Ansh Kuhikar
Ashim Kumar Dubey
Anish Bhattacharya
Anish is part of the modelling team with Adithya and Sidharth. When he's not slacking off and extending deadlines, Anish likes to eat, draw and owe people money.
Ansh Kuhikar
Logistics is and always has been Ansh's one true love. Helping the boss-lady Aditi with heavy-duty work, Ansh is also an avid entertainer and drummer.
Ashim Kumar Dubey
Reading papers and working with phages is one of the many things he loves doing, besides binging entire seasons of TV shows and hoarding food in his room (truly a blessing to everyone in the hostel).
Bhaskar Kumawat
Bhoomika Bhat
Debabrata Ghosh
Bhaskar Kumawat
The man himself, Bhaskar is our benevolent leader. When he's not reading papers and ordering people around, Bhaskar likes listening to non-mainstream music and coming up with incredibly creative acronyms.
Bhoomika Bhat
Bhoomika likes killing bacteria (only gram positive for now, but she's trying to diversify) and making sure they remain dead. In her free time, she does a lot of cloning and likes to play the flute.
Debabrata Ghosh
Debu has a thing for phages and sleeping at odd times during the day. Legends say he has missed whole weeks without realising it.
Dharanish Rajendrra
Gokul Krishna
Gopika Ranjith
Dharanish Rajendrra
When he’s not busy staring into your soul, Dharanish likes listening to music, playing frisbee, judging people and finding ways to complete BioBrick assemblies before the primers arrive.
Gokul Krishna
Gokul is an expert at the art of Jugaad and resolving seemingly insurmountable problems with lab equipment. In his free time, he likes asking a lot of questions, sleeping and trying new (and sometimes very unusual) things.
Gopika Ranjith
An integral part of the Human Practices team, Gopika Ranjith is one of many whose contribution can be seen in our very own short-story collection. When she's not working, Gopika likes to overdose on coke and chips.
Hari P Narayanan
Julian D'Costa
Karthika Maiappan
Hari P Narayanan
Hari is a pundit. Yes, his puns are so bad that they're actually good. Hari's immense repertoire of knowledge in the field of biology has helped the iGEM team grow a lot. He's also a part of the wetlab team, often seen working on plaque assays with Debu.
Julian D'Costa
Julian is an artist. A romantic at heart, Julian is the mastermind behind IISc-iGEM's short story collection, an important part of Human Practices. Julian is also a math-major.
Karthika Maiappan
Cute smiling little girl, Karthika is our cloning Godess! You’ll definitely find her gallery full of imaged gels. This pretty lady is a wonderful Carnatic vocalist and is the mom to almost every team member!
Monica U
Nived Krishnan S
Preetham Venkatesh
Monica U
The ever-zealous Monica is a key member of the Human practices team. Her relentless dedication and commitment to work is her ultimate secret of getting a task accomplished with just one glare. This beautiful soul is a very good singer and loves reading in her free time.
Nived Krishnan S
Nived is our silent saviour. An avid coder and web-designer, Nived supervises the entire wiki-making process, helping all of us design the wiki in the most perfect of ways. Also, you can blame him for anything that's wrong in the wiki. Other than that, Nived's dancing skills are renowned all over the campus. Legend has it that Michael Jackson came out of his grave to see Nived's moonwalk. Oh wait Nived can't do a moonwalk. My bad.
Preetham Venkatesh
This man, right here, has done immense work for PACMAN! Be it working on software or getting the, sometimes lazy, members of the human practices to work, Preetham’s a sweetheart, except for, when it comes to pulling his buddy Bhaskar’s legs! While he can get you to roll on floor laughing, the extremely talented actor that he is, Preetham touches the hearts of the audience with his performance!
Rahul Shah
Ramachandra Bangari
Shrey Gupta
Rahul Shah
As stunning as he looks, Rahul has amazing social skills. His way of getting people to do work ‘ASAP’ makes him a gem in handling the mammoth task of Logistics. Otherwise, Rahul is into gaming, loves listening to music and plays the keyboard.
Ramachandra Bangari
Be it designing information brochures or working on the website, Bangari is a boss at his work. His love for experimenting on new designs usually keeps him engaged, but in his leisure time, Bangari is into gaming and is a budding photographer.
Shrey Gupta
Together with Nived, Shrey has been one of the strongest pillars in making our wiki. His powers at multitasking just can’t be described in a few words. This busy lad, also handles the responsibilities of being a Chief coordinator of the college fest. In his free time, if at all any, Shrey is a bit into gaming.
Sidharth Soundararajan
Vidhi Sinha
Sidharth Soundararajan
Sidharth is a Math whiz. As fun and chilled out, a person as he is, Sidharth is very serious when it comes to working on the model for the project. While he is not engrossed in fascinating the beauty of proofs, he spends his time reading novels, and is also an amazing violinist.
Vidhi Sinha
The most entertaining member of the Human practices and the software subteams, Vidhi is the unbeatable loudspeaker of the team. While she isn't busy talking, Vidhi loves to eat, watch TV shows back-to-back but sleeping stays her esteemed hobby.
Team Mentors
Dr. Sandeep M. Eswarappa
Prof. Umesh Varshney
Dr. Neha Bahl
Dr. Sandeep M. Eswarappa
Dr. Sandeep Eswarappa is the primary PI for the 2018 IISc-Bangalore iGEM team
He is an assistant professor at the Department of Biochemistry, IISc. His lab is interested in studying the translational regualtion of gene expression in endothelial cells and in understanding the mechanisms of physiological and pathological angiogenesis.
Prof. Umesh Varshney
Prof. Varshney is the secondary PI for the 2018 IISc-Bangalore iGEM team
He is a professor and the Department of Microbiology and Cell biology at IISc. His lab is interested in understanding the mechanistic aspects of protein synthesis and DNA repair using E. coli and Mycobacteria as model systems.
Dr. Neha Bahl
Dr. Neha Bahl is an instructor for the 2018 IISc-Bangalore iGEM team
She is the life science instructor at the undergraduate department, IISc. She obtained her PhD from NUS, Singapore where she worked on computational biology. She is well experienced in a variety of experimental and computational work as well as in handling careless undergraduates.
Dr. Deepesh Nagarajan
Dr. Deepesh Nagarajan
Dr. Deepesh is an instructor for the 2018 IISc-Bangalore iGEM team
He is a postdoc who recently obtained his PhD from Prof. Nagasuma Chandra's Lab at the Dept. of Biochemistry, IISc. He has extensively worked on the design of antimicrobial peptides as well as peptides with novel structures and functions.