Clearly state what the team accomplished
- The team participated in Interlab study by iGEM 2017 and submitted the data. Aarti, Avani, Zakhiya, Jyothish and Charvee participated in transformations and measurement and compilation of data using plate reader.
- In growth curve experiments of DH5α and MG1655 strains of Escherichia coli, Aarti, Avani, Zakhiya, Jyothish and Charvee participated in measurement of OD at different timepoints.
- With respect to our project, Aarti Kejriwal and Avani Koparkar were involved in the Hijack module and building of a modified version of synthetic oscillator by Stricker et al. They were also in charge of organizing the India Meet-up 2017 (Regional). Avani handles the twitter handle of our team, and Avani and Aarti handle facebook page of our team. Avani handled the travel and visa documentation for the Jamboree.
- Zakhiya PC and Jyothish Sudhakaran were involved in the Detection module which involved expression of chromophores under constitutive promoter. They also attempted to clone dual promoter of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Escherichia coli. Zakhiya was also in charge of media and making of team video. Both of them helped in making our team logo as well.
- Charvee Ravichandran was involved in Termination module which involved building a quorum-sensing based technique leading to termination of growth of bacteria and/or lysis of cells.
- Yash Joshi was involved in modelling of the Hijack Module based on models of synthetic oscillators given in papers by Stricker et al. (2008) and Hasty et al(2002). He was also responsible for getting our private sponsors.
- Saumil Shah was in charge of wiki design, T-shirt design, banner design, poster design and making the final presentation.
- In our collaboration with IISc, Bangalore iGEM team which included haemocytomery of yeast samples, Aarti, Zakhiya and Jyothish were involved in sample preparation while Jyothish and Zakhiya were involved in imaging of samples.
- Jyothish carried out most of the T7 bacteriophage experiments along with Aarti and Charvee , while the entire team helped in plaque counting.
- Jyothish made the questionnaire for the human practice survey form.
General support
- Prof. K. N. Ganesh, Director, IISER-Pune wholeheartedly supported the project and made sure that monetary transactions for travel, consumables and stay were smooth.
- Dr. Sanjeev Galande, for talking to the students during India meet-up 2017 (Regional)
- Dr. Nishad Matange, for talking to the students during India meet-up 2017 (Regional)
- Dr. Sandeep Krishna, NCBS for talking to the students during India meet-up 2017 (Regional)
- Robert Ramirez Garcia, for talking to the students during India meet-up 2017 (Regional)
- Dr. Neelesh Dahanukar
- UG lab TAs: Poornima Raveendran, Prabha Desai and Manjiri Kekatpure
- Vivek Kanadi, Pradeep sir, Science media center, IISER-Pune
- IISER-Pune housekeeping staff
- Siddharth Adithyan: BS-MS student for designing the logo
- Himanshu Lagachu: BS-MS student for making the team video
- Kaustubh Amritkar and team : BS-MS student for arranging Skype session during India Meet-up 2017 (Regional)