Team:IISc-Bangalore/Members
Members
Members
Our Student Team
Aditya Basu
Aditya is a chemistry major, biology minor and third year undergraduate at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. He plans to pursue research in the fields of chemical biology and supramolecular chemistry in the future. He is the team 's student co-leader and has played roles in our wet lab, human practices, content and administrative teams. His hobbies include painting, playing the drums, and listening to music.
Ambarish Mallick
Ambarish is a biology major and third year undergraduate at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. He is interested in the fields of synthetic biology, neuroscience and ecology in the future. He is a part of the wet lab, videography and content teams. His hobbies include playing the guitar, photography, video editing, animation, and graphic designing.
Aranya Dhibar
Aranya is a biology major and third year undergraduate at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. He plans to pursue research in the field of ecology in the future. He is a part of the wet lab and content teams. His hobbies include listening to audio stories and doing vector illustrations.
Chandan R. T.
Chandan is a physics major and third year undergraduate at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. His research interests include quantum computing, applied math and theoretical computer science. He is a part of our content and wiki-development teams. His hobbies include playing video games, reading books, coding, playing the keyboard and playing chess.
Dipanjan Das
Dipanjan is a physics major and third year undergraduate at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. He plans to pursue research in experimental physics in the future. He is a part of the dry lab and content teams. His hobbies include watching movies particularly horror movies.
Dipayan Akhuli
Dipayan is a biology major and third year undergraduate at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. He is interested in the field of mathematical biology and systems biology and plans on pursuing research further in these areas. He is a part of the team 's wet lab, dry lab and content teams. His hobbies include watching movies, watching football and cricket. He listens to a ton of music but strictly not while working.
Kaustubh Roy
Kaustubh is a physics major and third year undergraduate at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. He is currently interested in condensed matter physics and quantum computing. He is a part of the dry lab and content teams. In his spare time, he likes reading Murakami, baking for his friends, struggling to play the guitar, and working out.
Nikhita Kirthivasan
Nikhita is a biology major and third year undergraduate at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. She is interested in pursuing research in the field of immunology in the future. She is a part of the team 's wet lab, human practices, finance, content and social-media teams. Her hobbies include reading books (fiction and non-fiction), cycling and playing table-tennis.
Nilay Agarwal
Nilay is a biology major and third year undergraduate at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. He is interested in neuroscience and plans to pursue research in that field. He is a part of the team 's wet lab, content and human practices teams. His hobbies include playing the piano, reading fiction and non-fiction books, listening to podcasts, and playing football, chess and Minecraft.
Rydham Goyal
Rydham is a biology major and fourth year undergraduate at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. He is currently exploring Salmonella pathogenesis. He is a part of our human practices team. He was the cultural secretary of the IISc gymkhana in the past.
Sukriyo Chakraborty
Sukriyo is a chemistry major, biology minor and third year undergraduate at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. He plans to pursue research in the field of bio-inorganic chemistry in the future. In our iGEM team, he is the student leader. He is a part of the administrative, finance, wet lab, content and human practices of our team. His hobbies include reading books and listening to Rabindrasangeet.
Tanishq Tejaswi
Tanishq is a biology major, chemistry minor and third year undergraduate at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. With interests in dev-bio, oncology and evolutionary biology, and a bit of chemistry, Tanishq is still deciding what he wants to do. He is a part of the wet lab and content teams. His hobbies currently are sleeping, eating, reading novels and watching movies and TV shows. He is a huge fan of all types of fantasies.
Our Mentor
Anubhav Dhar
Anubhav Dhar is a second-year doctoral student at Dr Saravanan Palani 's lab. He is interested in the fields of cell biology and cytoskeleton and is currently pursuing research in these fields. He has guided us in our experimental work. His hobbies include playing football and cricket.
Our PIs
Dr. Saravanan Palani
Dr. Saravanan Palani is an Assistant Professor at the Biochemistry Department at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. He is a synthetic biologist and one of the primary investigators of our iGEM project. His lab focuses on deciphering the mechanistic regulation of eukaryotic cell division. He is our go-to person for all things syn-bio related. He has been a pillar of support through the ups and downs of our ongoing protein purification journey. You can always rely on him to help troubleshoot and boost morale when experiments aren't working.
Dr. Samay Pande
Dr. Samay Pande is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. He studies bacterial prey-predator interactions. He is also one of the primary investigators of our iGEM project. He has always welcomed and supported the iGEM team and has been of great help in our cellulose production aspect of the project. Samay believes that as long we know how to proceed, we are making progress whether our experiments work or fail.
Prof. Dipshikha Chakravortty
Professor Dipshikha Chakravortty is a Professor at the Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. She is a medicinal microbiologist by training, and her lab works on uncovering Salmonella pathogenesis and host-pathogen interactions. She is a primary investigator of our iGEM project. She has been involved with the past iGEM teams from IISc and with our project from the very start. She has played a crucial role in helping us in every leg of our project, right from the initiation.