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Attributions

This section is meant to attribute work completed by the student team members on the team roster. The work completed by the students, the host labs, advisors, instructors, PIs, and any individuals not on the current year's team roster are described in detail here. The help of several individuals who helped us indirectly have also been duly acknowledged.

Contents:

Team Member Attributions
General Support
Lab Work Support
Integrated Human Practices
Synthetic Biology Book Support
Project Promotion Video Support
Wiki Development Support
Special Thanks
Sponsorship and Funding

Team Member Attributions

The Team members of the IISc iGEM were the ones who were primarily involved in all the activities related to iGEM. Following is the list of details of how each of them helped in the project

Name	Contribution
Aditya Basu	Came up with the initial project idea and helped in the forming the implementation strategy. Also was involved in lab work. He also helped in making the project promotion video and designed the project logo and was actively involved in our Human Practices Efforts
Ambarish Mallick	Was involved in lab work, primarily in making MCC sheets from powder. Also met the various stakeholders of the project and helped in editing the project promotion video.
Aranya Dhibar	Was involved in lab work. Also helped in creation of project promotion video and made illustrations for our promo video, posters, children's primer and wiki
Chandan R. T.	Solely responsible for spearheading team wiki development and providing continuous backend development support.
Dipanjan Das	Created the hardware design and also helped in lab work, primarily in making MCC sheets from MCC powder
Dipayan Akhuli	Involved in brainstorming for the project and was responsible for wetlab work, particularly cloning and protein production. Was also involved in public education and engagement.
Kaustubh Roy	Responsible for building the mathematical model to quantify the approximate residence time and other filter parameters
Nikhita Kirthivasan	Was involved in brainstorming and wetlab. Helped in Public Education and Engagement, IHP, project promotion and presentation videos and writing content for our wiki and was responsible for much of our social media activities.
Nilay Agarwal	Involved in Public Education and Engagement, and Human Practices. Also helped in writing wiki content, project presentation video and wetlab.
Rydham Goyal	Helped in Public Education and Engagement, primarily in organising the symposium.
Sukriyo Chakraborty	Responsible for leading the team throughout the project and establishing coordination between various aspects of the project. Involved in brainstorming and chalking out the entire strategy for the project. Responsible for wetlab work and for spearheading the Public Education and Engagement and IHP efforts, besides contributing to the promo video and wiki content. Was also responsible for all administrative requirements, financial management and official clearances.
Tanishq Tejaswi	Involved in wetlab work, particularly in protein production and purification. Also involved in IHP and writing wiki content.

General Support

In addition to creating the implementation strategies for different parts of the project, the Principal Investigators also helped in troubleshooting and providing their inputs at different stages if our project, they also provided moral support to us. They were always ready and eager to help us. Besides all this they also helped us order all the required materials and allowed us to use their laboratories for our lab work:

Dr. Saravanan Palani (Department of Biochemistry, IISc) helped us in the cloning, designing of fusion proteins and protein production strategies. He helped us design the protein sequences and allowed us unfettered access to his laboratory for this purpose. (He also treated us to late night dinners when we had to stay till night in the lab!)
Dr. Samay Pande (Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, IISc) helped us in the production of Bacterial Cellulose sheets and provided us lab access in this regard.
Prof. Dipshikha Chakravortty (Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, IISc) helped us during brainstorming and reviewed our progress routinely. She provided us with new ideas to troubleshoot our project and kept us motivated throughout the entire duration.

We are also thankful to Dr. Jayanta Chatterjee (Molecular Biophysics Unit, IISc) and Prof. D N Rao (Department of Biochemistry, IISc) for helping us troubleshoot the various problems that arose during protein purification. We would also like to thank Prof. Praveen Chandra Ramamurthy (Department of Materials Engineering, IISc) for helping us with production of microcrystalline cellulose sheets from powder and Dr. Saptarshi Basu (Department of Mechanical Engineering, IISc) for helping us with a potential hardware design.

Besides attributions for helping with the technical aspects of our project, we'd also like to thank Prof. P S Anil Kumar, the former Dean of the UG Programme and the current Dean of Administration and Finance, and Prof. B R Jagirdar, the current Dean (UG), for helping us with the financial and administrative aspects of our iGEM project. We would like to specially thank Mrs. Nandini AP (Office of the UG Programme, IISc) and the entire UG Office at IISc for their financial and administrative support as well.

Lab Work Support

We would like to thank some of the members in every lab where we worked for helping us out extensively with our project. They helped us learn the various laboratory techniques and this would have been very difficult without their help.

Synthetic Cell Biology Lab: Anubhav Dhar, Bindu B, Penchalayya
Bacterial Ecology and Evolution Lab: Saheli Saha, Sukrit Suresh, Bhoomika Bhat
Molecular Pathogenesis Lab: Abhilash Vijay Nair
Organic NanoElectronics Group: Sutripto Khasnabis
Prof. Saptarshi Basu Research Group: Omkar Hegde

We would also like to thank our fellow batchmate Pabitra Sharma for providing some help in the lab work

Integrated Human Practices

We would like to thank Dr. Sunita Narain (Director General, centre for Science and Environment), Mr. Amit Khurana (Programme Director, Food Safety and Toxins, Centre for Science and Environemnt), Dr. Bitasta Das (Senior Editor, Office of Communications, IISc), Mr. Malathesh L. (Junior Scientific Officer - Chemistry, Bangalore Bioinnovation Centre), and Prof. T V Ramachandra (Energy & Wetlands Research Group, Centre for Ecological Sciences, IISc) for providing us with inputs about the various aspects and concerns about our project and implementing it and its usefulness in the real world.

Special thanks to Dr. Karishma Kaushik, Ms. Snehal Kadam and the Talk-to-a-Scientist (TTAS) Team for helping us to organise a wonderful interactive session with schoolchildren through their platform.

Synthetic Biology Book Support

Besides the team-members, we would like to thank Abheepsa Nanda, Ankush Moger, Darshana Mandal, Lakshya Chauhan, Pabitra Sharma, Rashi Jindal and Yukta Thyagaraj for helping us with the content and illustrations in the synthetic biology primer designed by us.

We would also like to thank Dr. Bitasta Das from the Office of Communications and Dr. Abhijeet Bayani, the UG Biology Instructor, for helping us in publication of the book.

Project Promotion Video Support

For translating the project promotion video into other languages and voiceovers in languages other than English, we would like to thank, besides our team-members, Abheepsa Nanda, Ashfakh Ali K M, Jeevan Subodh, Megha Kattimani, Sanket Patil, Senin Ahammed AP, Soham Mahesh Karandikar and Tanmai Dhani Reddy.

Wiki Development Support

We would like to thank the 2020 Team of BITS Pilani - Goa for developing iGEM WikiSync and for providing extensive documentation on its usage. We thank Pranav Ballaney in particular, for responding to all our queries regarding Wiki Development.

The background images to the key pages were obtained from FreePik.com. We utlized MaterializeCSS and Animate On Scroll in our website, both of which come under open source.

Special Thanks

Our team was delighted and grateful to be able to share this iGEM experience with experts from different fields. We would like to extend our special thanks to

Prof. Padmanabhan Balaram (Former Director of IISc and Retired Professor at Molecular Biophysics Unit, IISc), Prof. Raghavan Vardarajan (Molecular Biophysics Unit, IISc) and Prof. Mohan Balasubramanian (University of Warwick) for providing inputs that helped us in the planning of implementation and in coming up with alternate strategies for protein production and purification.

Prof. Ann G. Matthysse (University of North Carolina) for providing us with the mutant strains of A. tumefaciens.

Prof. Mark Howarth (University of Oxford) for putting us in contact with his post-doctoral associate Dr. Anthony Keeble.

Dr. Anthony Keeble, for his invaluable inputs regarding the Spy&Go purification system.

Dr. Mudrika Khandelwal and Dr. Shivakalyani Adepu (The Cellulose Group, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering, IIT Hyderabad) for helping us out with optimised protocols for production of bacterial cellulose from Gluconoacetobacter xylinus.

Dr. Nagasuma Chandra and Dr. Sandeep M. Eswarappa of the Department of Biochemistry, Dr. Amit Singh, Prof. Umesh Varshney and Prof. Utpal Nath of the Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Dr. Hardik J. Pandya (Department of Electronic Systems Engineering, IISc), and Dr. Kavitha Sarvepalli, UG Biology Instructor at IISc, for providing their inputs during the initial brainstorming sessions

Members of Team iGEM IISc-Bangalore 2017, 2018 and 2019, particularly Ananya Passi, Bharat Vivan Thapa, Bhaskar Kumawat, Biswanath Shaw, Lakshya Chauhan, Mohit Das, Preetham Venkatesh, Samarth Hawaldar, Sharath K Menon, Souvadra Hati, and S R Apuroopa for introducing us to iGEM and helping us extensively during brainstorming.

Dr. Ramray Bhat and Dr. SP Arun, the UG Biology Coordinators, for allowing us access to the UG Biology laboratory for our meetings, brainstorming and troubleshooting sessions.

iGEM HQ for being considerate enough to extend deadlines during the devastating second wave of the CoViD-19 pandemic in India and for shifting our judging sessions around the festival season to prevent any inconvenience to us.

Dr. Anindita Basu for helping us with the AlphaFold prediction of C2 (3.0)

Dr. Nityagopal Basu for helping us with the survey

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