Thanks!

The participation of our team at the 2015 competition was made possible through the extremely generous support of the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation, which supports the team since its first appearance in the competition in 2007. This year, we also received the generous support of the Citizen Cyberlab.

Our Generous Sponsors

Lactobacillus help:
Alexandra Gruss, INRA (Jouy-en-Josas) – Technical help on molecular biology on LAB
Filipe Branco dos Santos – Advice and provided LAB strains & plasmids
Hélène Falentin, INRA (Rennes) – Help on Propionibacteria and gave us plasmid
CIRM INRA Rennes – Sold us propionibacterium strain and gave us advices to grow it (via Marie-Noëlle Madec)
David Bikard (Synthetic Biology Lab, Institut Pasteur)- for providing us Lactobacillus plantarum wild type strain from Pasteur collection.
Jan-Peter van Pijkeren (Department of Food Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison)- for advice on CRISPR assisted chromosomal integration in Lactobacillus.
Michiel Kleerebezem and Ingrid van Alen : gave us integrative plasmid for lactobacillus plantarum.


Yeast and recombination help:
Pilar de la Torre and Dr Jean Marc Daran : Strains and plasmids
Héloïse Müller, Institut Pasteur – Yeast and recombination help
Zoran Marincovic – Advice, plasmids and strains


E. coli help:
Lun Cui, Institut Pasteur — chromosomal integration system General help:
Aleksandra Nivina − Molecular biology advices

Organizing events:
Sandra Youssef, BioFaction – Organize NightScience event
Pierre-Yves Bourguignon, Chief Scientific Officer, Isthmus Sarl – Talk during NightScience event
Margaux Calon : CRI coordinator

Multiple, marker-free chromosomal integration in bacteria (in Lactococcus lactis):

Christian Solem and Jianming Liu , National Food Institute, DTU (Denmark) – Provided plasmids

Sociology and nutrition help:
Jeremy Fouache – Advice on designing a survey

Design:
Li Yu
Rhizi:
Dor Garbash – Developed Rhizi and hosted an instance on his server

Nice pictures for the Wiki:
Karthikeyan Chinnathamby


SynBio Challenge:
Juan-Manuel Garcia Arcos – organisation

DIλ spectrophotometer: Alexey Zaytsev-for being awesome :) with the spectrophotometer

Juan-Manuel Garcia Arcos – Helped in brainstorming sessions, in the lab, organizing events…


Things in the field:
Alice Le Boedec – Went to India, gave our surveys and took samples
Shruthi Vembar
Hang Zhong – Helped in the lab, Vitamin B2 project

Futur en Seine event:
thanks to Camille Pène and Clementine Malgras for the chance you gave us to discuss the project with the public.


Host Laboratory

Our iGEM team is kindly hosted in the CRI (Inderdisciplinary Research Center) located in theFaculté de médecine Paris Descartes at the center of Paris. In the heart of one of Paris' biggest hospitals, the CRI hosts interdisciplinary undergraduate (LFdV), Master (AIV); devoted also to systems and synthetic biology!) as well as a PhD program (FdV). This center is directed by François Taddei and Ariel Lindner.

For the Laboratory's facilities, we are kindly hosted by the CRI/INSERM U1001 lab, that lent us benches, microscopes and others facilities. We thank all the members of the INSERM U1001 for their kind help and that they shared not only their equipment but also their experience with us. We would like to give a special thank Chantal Lotton, the lab manager, for her advices on the bench, her warm words, her organization skills, her introductions, for being there for us any time and that she ensured that we worked safely.