Meet Our Team

Scientists, engineers, and dreamers behind ARGUS-2440

Principal Investigator

Prof. Samay Pande

Secondary PI

Prof. Dipshika Chakraborty

Prof. Umesh Varshney

iGEM Leads

Aarav Ghate

Lost on his way to physics lab

Creetika Dahal

Was not going to do iGEM seriously

Wet Lab Team

Mukta Khanolkar

Pipette Master

Niranjana Surya

Sponsor Magnet

Abhay Mahata

The glue that held the team together

Adhiraj Kar

Still thinks he is not in iGEM

Yadukrishnan S

The silent achiever

Dry Lab Team

Aditey Nandan

Totally not forced into this

Gautham Tathanda

Putting the 'ATE' in nitrate

Manya Gupta

Machine learning ninja.

Jashandeep Thind

Will delete Gemini Pro after this

Vidhi Chauhan

Just wanted an iGEM sticker for her laptop

Human Practices Team

Devansh Jhawar

One simply does not ask: but what about society?

Chandana Valaboju

Chemist in sheep's clothing

Mihir Kapse

Did everything but iGEM

Our Team Spirit

Our team spirit has been the unbreakable bond that fueled our collective effort, ensuring that every victory is shared and every challenge is persevered through.

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Argus!

No, not Ammonium Rhizospheric Generation Using Soil Bacteria. We're talking about everyone's favourite dog on the IISc campus (except two-wheelers, he'll bark at those without exception). Argus is not the reason our project is named the way it is. We definitely didn't spend days pondering upon convoluted combinations of agricultural terms to make a specific acronym.

Argus walking back with you to the hostel at 4 am, after an arduous day in the lab, often made it all worth it. A majestic figure at times, at others he can be found lazing around near the main building, or getting back rubs in front of the Hostel Office.

If you don't find him in any of these places and are a little sad, you can always check out our team logo, we guarantee you'll find him there.

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