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 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.
Investigator
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.