Team Member
Hometown: Mumbai
Favorite food: Healthy food
Favorite microbe: Mycoplasma laboratorium

Describe your iGEM experience:
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. -Confucius

Outside of iGEM:
Books, Sci-fi, TED talks, Medium articles ...actually whatever I do it's all a part of self-actualization

Team Leader
Hometown: Chennai
Favorite food: Fried egg Maggi!
Favorite microbe: Deinococcus radiodurans

Describe your iGEM experience:
Jump in, start doing you will never be fully prepared and never perfect

Outside of iGEM:
Other than iGEM? Remember no more

Team Member
Hometown: Surat
Favorite food: Sambar rice
Favorite microbe: Vibrio natriegens

Describe your iGEM experience:
Exhilarating

Outside of iGEM:
Systems biology enthu

Team Member
Hometown: Mysuru
Favorite food: Chicken Kabab from Biryani Paradise
Favorite microbe: Helicobacter pylori

Describe your iGEM experience:
Do or Do Not, There is no Try

Outside of iGEM:
Get lost in books and get lost on my cycle, whilst clicking pictures all the way

Team Member
Hometown: Bengaluru
Favorite food: Onion Chutney with Dosa
Favorite microbe: Streptomyces coelicolor

Describe your iGEM experience:
It's been easy, been hard, been interesting, been boring but I never got to complain

Outside of iGEM:
Contemplate business ideas with friends

Team Leader
Hometown: Pune
Favorite food: Prawns, Pav Bhaji, BBQ Spicy Chicken
Favorite microbe: Bacillus subtilis

Describe your iGEM experience:
This girl is on fire!

Outside of iGEM:
I read, eat, Netflix, and obsess over my one love, iGEM

Team Member
Hometown: Aurangabad
Favorite food: Butter chicken
Favorite microbe: Myxococcus xanthus

Describe your iGEM experience:
Patience is beautiful

Outside of iGEM:
Doodling, painting, listening to music

Team Leader
Hometown: Mumbai
Favorite food: Pasta
Favorite microbe: Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Describe your iGEM experience:
It's completely different as a member and as a team leader

Outside of iGEM:
iGEM is love. iGEM is life

Team Member
Hometown: Mangalore
Favorite food: Desserts and chocolate
Favorite microbe: Magnetospirillium magneticum

Describe your iGEM experience:
“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.” ― Thomas Paine

Outside of iGEM:
Badminton, basketball

Team Member
Hometown: Hyderabad
Favorite food: Mom's mangshor jhol
Favorite microbe: Geogemma barossii

Describe your iGEM experience:
"Somehow I manage" - Michael Scott

Outside of iGEM:
Drama, write, chill with friends and memes

Team Member
Hometown: Chennai
Favorite food: Thayir Sadam
Favorite microbe: Pseudomonas putida

Describe your iGEM experience:
Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly

Outside of iGEM:
Doodling, Dancing and Music ♥️

Team Member
Hometown: Chennai
Favorite food: Ghee Masala Dosa
Favorite microbe: Thermus aquaticus

Describe your iGEM experience:
I need some coffee

Outside of iGEM:
Write, read, Netflix

Team Member
Hometown: Chennai
Favorite food: Vathakozhambu
Favorite microbe: Escherichia coli

Describe your iGEM experience:
Sleep? Sleep.

Outside of iGEM:
I enjoy reading. Some of my favourite works include The Raven Cycle, The Elegance of the Hedgehog and Good Omens.

Team Member
Hometown: Chennai
Favorite food: Yakisoba
Favorite microbe: Yersinia pestis

Describe your iGEM experience:
Going wherever the wind takes me

Outside of iGEM:
Breathe... read, hug puppies and kittens.

Team Member
Hometown: Bangalore
Favorite food: Bisi Bele Bath
Favorite microbe: Physarum polycephalum

Describe your iGEM experience:
The confusion is all-consuming

Outside of iGEM:
Quizzer extraordinaire

Team Member
Hometown: Madhya Pradesh
Favorite food: Pani Puri and Chocolates
Favorite microbe: Dictyostelium

Describe your iGEM experience:
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest

Outside of iGEM:
Volleyball, music, singing and exploring

Team Member
Hometown: Pune
Favorite food: Quiche, Crabs, Falooda, Khakra
Favorite microbe: Streptococcus pyrogenes

Describe your iGEM experience:
Nothing truly great ever came from a comfort zone

Outside of iGEM:
Keep myself updated about ideas whether it's science, business or market

Team Advisor
Research scholar in Bioprocess and Metabolic engineering lab in the Dept. of Biotechnology IIT Madras, his interests are Conservational biology and A. baylyi

Team Advisor
Research scholar in Bioprocess and Metabolic engineering lab in the Dept. of Biotechnology IIT Madras, her interests lie in genome editing and engineering.

Instructor
Dr. Anantha Barathi Muthukrishnan is an Institute Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Biotechnology, IIT Madras. She obtained her Doctoral degree in 2014 from the Laboratory of Biosystem Dynamics, Department of Signal processing, Tampere University of Technology, Finland. Her broad research interest is using in vivo single-molecule systems biology approach to understand fundamental cellular processes and further transfer this knowledge from an applied perspective.

Principal Investigator
Dr. Guhan Jayaraman is a professor in the department of Biotechnology, IIT Madras. His primary research interest resides on Metabolic engineering, Recombinant protein production, systems biology, bioprocess monitoring and control and chromatographic bioseparation process. He has published more than 30 research papers in these domains. He also has a profound interest in synthetic biology.

Principal Investigator
Dr. Nitish R Mahapatra is a professor in the department of Biotechnology, IIT Madras. His research interests include investigating the molecular genetics of cardiovascular diseases. He is especially interested in the role of single nucleotide polymorphisms in the onset and progression of cardiovascular dysfunction. He works on hypertension, in particular.