Sponsors

Leaders

	Name	Sai Padma Priya (Sai)
	Role	Student Leader
	Year, Major	3rd, Biology
	Hobbies	Theatre, Music, Reading fiction, Graphic Design and Anime
	Likes to eat	Mexican hot chocolate
	Favourite Scientist	Linus Pauling
	Favourite Microbe	Desulforudis audaxviator
	Favourite Quote	"I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." - Isaac Newton

	Name	Raj Magesh (Raj)
	Role	Student Leader
	Year, Major	2nd year
	Hobbies	Pun afficionado, reading, writing, music, stories, daydreaming, Redditing
	Likes to eat	Mom's homemade mashed potatoes
	Favourite Scientist	Eliezer Yudkowsky
	Favourite Microbe	Thermotoga neapolitana
	Favourite Quote	"My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all." - Stephen Hawking

Lab

	Name	Kunal Helambe (Kunal)
	Role	WetLab
	Year, Major	2nd Year
	Hobbies	Football, Books, Frisbee, Travelling, TV shows and Anime
	Likes to eat	Vada Pav
	Favourite Scientist	Lev Davidovich Landau
	Favourite Microbe	Magnetospirillum magneticum
	Favourite Quote	" The task is not to see what has never been seen before, but to think what has never been thought before about what you see everyday" - Erwin Schrödinger

	Name	Bhaskar Kumawat (Bhaskar)
	Role	Wetlab, Modelling, Gas vesicle assays.
	Year, Major	2nd year
	Hobbies	Books
	Likes to eat	Mint and Potato sandwich
	Favourite Scientist	Wolfgang Pauli
	Favourite Microbe	Myxococcus Xanthus
	Favourite Quote	"Everything is a goddamn social construct" - self

	Name	Sharath K Menon (psydank)
	Role	Wetlab
	Year, Major	2nd year
	Hobbies	Music, books, video games, memes, doing secret superhero things
	Likes to eat	Sevpuri
	Favourite Scientist	-
	Favourite Microbe	Helicobacter pylori
	Favourite Quote	"After that my guess is that you will never hear from him again. The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist. And like that... he is gone." - Verbal

	Name	Durjay Pramanik (Durjay)
	Role	Moral support and grunt work
	Year, Major	3rd year, Biology
	Hobbies	Travelling, photography, music
	Likes to eat	Biriyani with potato
	Favourite Scientist	Stephen Hawking
	Favourite Microbe	Saccharomyces cerevisiae
	Favourite Quote	"what we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning." - Werner Heisenberg

	Name	Rajas Poorna (Rajas)
	Role	Hardware Coordinator
	Year, Major	3rd, Physics
	Hobbies	-
	Likes to eat	Curd
	Favourite Scientist	Richard Feynman
	Favourite Microbe	Leishmania donovanii
	Favourite Quote	"Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons" - Michael Shermer

	Name	Rohith KMS (Rohith)
	Role	Hardware design, documentation, testing and software
	Year, Major	2nd year
	Hobbies	Trekking, motorcycling, Data Science and Machine Learning
	Likes to eat	Steak and mashed potatoes
	Favourite Scientist	Enrico Fermi
	Favourite Microbe	Thermus aquaticus
	Favourite Quote	"Ever love somebody so much that would do anything for them? Make yourself that person and go do whatever the hell you want" - Harvey Specter

	Name	Pratyusha Madhnure (Potato)
	Role	Hardware design, measurement, assembly
	Year, Major	2nd year
	Hobbies	Painting, Looking at cute things, Reading, Anime
	Likes to eat	Dark Chocolate
	Favourite Scientist	-
	Favourite Microbe	Petrichor-producing Actinomycetes
	Favourite Quote	“The human mind has a primitive ego defense mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. It’s called Denial.” -Dan Brown, Inferno

	Name	Julian D'Costa (Juli)
	Role	Hardware documentation, mechanical design and construction
	Year, Major	2nd year
	Hobbies	Reading, Ultimate Frisbee, Calligraphy
	Likes to eat	Prawns, Tambdi bhaji, Soup
	Favourite Scientist	Timothy Gowers
	Favourite Microbe	Prochlorococcus marinus
	Favourite Quote	"Now there's this about cynicism, Sergeant. It's the universe's most supine moral position. Real comfortable. If nothing can be done, then you're not some kind of shit for not doing it, and you can lie there and stink to yourself in perfect peace." - Lois McMaster Bujold (Borders of Infinity)

	Name	Mukul Sagar (Mr. Mukul Sagar)
	Role	Graphic design, hardware and human practices
	Year, Major	2nd year
	Hobbies	Animation, wood carving, trying new things, innovation
	Likes to eat	New Delicacies
	Favourite Scientist	Nikola Tesla
	Favourite Microbe	tardigrades
	Favourite Quote	"It was never about me" - self

	Name	Shrey Gupta (Guptaji ka ladka)
	Role	Wiki, Hardware GUI
	Year, Major	2nd year
	Hobbies	Novels, movies, web development, sleeping
	Likes to eat	Anything I can get my hands on
	Favourite Scientist	-
	Favourite Microbe	HIV
	Favourite Quote	"I am Batman" - Batman

	Name	Aditya Iyer (Darth Vadiyer)
	Role	Logistics, Finance, Human Practices
	Year, Major	3rd, Biology
	Hobbies	Cycling
	Likes to eat	-
	Favourite Scientist	Niko Tinbergen
	Favourite Microbe	Aliivibrio fischeri
	Favourite Quote	"Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. - Douglas Adams"

	Name	Preetham Venkatesh (Pooi)
	Role	Human Practices, Sponsorship
	Year, Major	2nd year
	Hobbies	Theatre, Music, Football, Web Surfer
	Likes to eat	Chicken wings
	Favourite Scientist	Feynman and Woodward
	Favourite Microbe	Wolbalchia spp
	Favourite Quote	-