Team:IIT-Madras/Team
The Team
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: Mycelium
Describe your iGEM experience:
Exhilarating
Outside of iGEM:
Reading books and 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: Mycobacterium tuberculosis
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, act, Netflix/Amazon Prime/Hotstar
Team Member
Hometown: Chennai
Favorite food: Vathakozhambu
Favorite microbe: E. Coli
Describe your iGEM experience:
Sleep? sleep.
Outside of iGEM:
I read lots of dumb books
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.
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: 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: 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: 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