Kickstarter: a crowdfunding platform

Kickstarter is a global crowdfunding platform based in the United States.The company’s stated mission is to help bring creative projects to life. Kickstarter has reportedly received more than $1.5 billion in pledges from 7.8 million backers to fund 200,000 creative projects, such as films, music, stage shows, comics, journalism, video games, technology and food-related projects.

We warmly thank all of our supporters. We didn't think that we would achieve our €3,000 objective. With the help of 69 contributors, we did.

NEB: New England Biolabs

New England Biolabs (NEB) produces and supplies recombinant and native enzyme reagents for the life science research.NEB also provides free access to research tools such as REBASE, InBASE, and Polbase.

NEB is one of our partner as it provided some reagent kit for Gibson Assembly and PCR as well as some laboratory material.

Qiagen

Qiagen is a provider of sample and assay technologies for molecular diagnostics, applied testing, academic and pharmaceutical research.

Qiagen is one of our partner as it provided some reagent kit for Gibson Assembly and PCR as well as some laboratory material.

Glowee

Glowee is a biolighting living system that both does not consume electricity and does not emit light pollution.

Glowee's technology is based on bioluminescence, the natural superpower of some micro-organisms to create light. It has been thought to tackle the current issues faced by the urban lighting market.

Sup'Biotech

Sup'Biotech is a French private engineering school created in 2003 located in Villejuif close to Paris. Sup'Biotech is specialized in the field of biotechnology. The school delivers a 5-year program split in two parts: the first three years correspond to a bachelor's degree in biotechnology and the last two years to expert in biotechnology

We warmly thank Vanessa Proux, the director of Sup'Biotech for allowing us to create this team and achieve this project to its whole. Moreover, her administrative and organizational help regarding laboratory availability was really precious. Finally we are thankful also for her financial help.

We also render thanks to Estelle Mogensen (PhD in plant pathologies) who helped us during our laboratory sessions as she is the head of the Sup'Biotech laboratories. We couldn't perform any experiments without her and Baptiste Favard allowing us using the laboratories.

Epita

The École Pour l'Informatique et les Techniques Avancées (the "Graduate School of Computer Science and Advanced Technologies"), more commonly known as EPITA is a French education institution specialized in the field of computer science and software engineering.

Epita and its director Joel Courtois, provided really helpful advice and financial support, we are thankful for all this help.

E-artSup

E-Artsup is a French private university created in 2001 and specialized in digital creativity and multimedia.

We are grateful to E-artSup and its director Nicolas Becqueret for their great and useful help in the crowdfunding campaign regarding our communication.

Uni Freiburg

The University of Freiburg is a public research university located in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

We are grateful for all the laboratory material and plasmids provided by this University through one of our supervisor Samuel Juillot currently finishing his PhD there. Without this help, we couldn't have achieved any part of the project!

The French Embassy in the United States

We warmly thank the French Embassy in the United States for supporting our project, believing in it and for supplying financial funding in order for us to achieve our goals.

The Bio Club

The Bio Club is a Sup’Biotech association, created in 2013 by Matthieu Da Costa, supported by Gilles Defrel and Johanna Chesnel. Thanks to different and dynamic approaches, its goal is to facilitate the understanding and the promotion of biotechnology among students and the general public. The Bio Club is built on a strong multidisciplinary and willingness of students to actively participate to the expansion of biotechnology.

We are grateful and warmly thank the Bio Club, for being the birthplace of the IONIS iGEM team and have brought its values and willing to the IONIS iGEM 2015 Project.

Our advisors

We warmly thank our advisor Guillaume Mercy who participated in previous iGEM editions and currently making his PhD at the Pasteur Institute, helped us on our strategy of our experimentations and who supervised several laboratory sessions.

We greatly thank Pierre Parutto, who participated also in previous iGEM editions for sharing with us his experience and knowledge of the iGEM competition.

Sup'Biotech alumni

We greatly thank Carine La, graduate from Sup'Biotech and co-founder of the biotechnology start-up Anova Plus involved in creating a healthy and sustainable agriculture. She gave us essential advices regarding the market studies, our presentations and our communication speeches.

IONIS mag

LaBiotech

Other teams

For partnerships and collaborations: Oxford, Columbia iGEM

For the Parisian meetup: Paris Bettencourt, Evry, Paris Saclay, Pasteur

We are also thankful for all iGEM team who have taken the challenge of one minute video explaining their project: Oxford, Pasteur Paris, UT-Tokyo, Paris Bettencourt and Heidelberg.