Team:Toulouse/Supports
Sponsors
Our project to fight against the varroa mite for bees saving has drawn the attention of a large public, composed of public and private institutions as well as supporting people.
We would like to warmly thank all our sponsors for their financial support. They enabled to make our project real and thus, they contributed to the promotion of the Science and Research.
Our institutions
INSA Toulouse (National Institute for Applied Sciences) is a French public engineering school created in 1953. This famous pluridisciplinary school offers eight formations such as biochemistry, informatics, physics, civil engineering. Nowadays, there are 2.369 engineering students, 262 teachers and researchers and 8 research laboratories.
The Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier is a multidisciplinary University involved in sciences and technologies, sport, gestion and communication but also health and medical studies. This University was ranked in the 300 best universities in the world, according to the Shangaï ranking in 2014.
Our financial sponsors
The Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Systèmes Biologiques et des Procédés (LISBP) was created in 2007 with the fusion of the Laboratory of Biotechnology and Bioprocesses and the Laboratory of Engineering in Environmental Processes. The LISBP is mostly specialized in innovative technics regarding living and process sciences such as microbiology, biocatalysis and separation technics.
Adisseo is a worldwide expert in animal nutrition. This branch has a major role in the improvement of food chain while preserving animals, mankind and environment.
Beeopic is a French company managed by Nicolas Géant which desires to support beekeepers in advicing them and in offering them trainings. Moreover, the company sells and provides bee-keeping equipment such as hives, queen bees, swarms etc…
Beeopic also rents or sells and installs beehives in companies.
The Division de la Vie Etudiante has several goals. It supports the associative and cultural development and student projects such as ours. Moreover, it welcomes, informs, and socially helps students.
The universitary fundation of the engineering school INSA Toulouse created in 2007 is an important vector of sponsoring which enables the development of the school in developping innovating projects. This contributes to the fulfillment of the engineer students.
The Genopole of Toulouse (GenoToul) was created in 1999 to develop genomes studies, bioinformatics and to promote the innovation by encouraging interdisciplinary projects. GenoToul welcomes around fifty projects each year regarding many subjects such as healthcare, agronomy, biotechnologies, ecology and environment.
The research unit MIAT (Unité de Mathématiques et Informatiques Appliquées de Toulouse) means Unit of Applied Mathematics and Informatics of Toulouse. It has the scientific aim of developping and implement mathematic and/or informatic methods to solve identified problems. Those problems are related with the living sciences which suppose the development of links between claculation, modelisation and living sciences (biology, agronomy, ecology and environmental sciences) in order to accelerate explorating research in silico.
The ambassy of France in the United States helps financially French teams participating to american life sciences competitions such as the iGEM competition. This grant "Life Sciences: inventing – creating – having fun" exists since 2012 and contributes to support French researchers.
Solvay group was created in Belgium, 150 years ago, in 1863. Nowadays, the group has 1700 collaborators and is the leader of the world chemical field.
Un toit pour les abeilles (A roof for the bees) gives the possibility to individuals and to companies to offer a roof and a beekeeper to all orphan bees. This is done in order to restore the balance necessary to the bees’ survival and to our survival. In exchange, the owners receive honeypots from their beehives. Companies have the possibility to install their own beehive on the roof of their building.
Toulouse White Biotechnology (TWB) is a French infrastructure developing new technics of sustainable production by enhancing the use of renewable carbon source. TWB has three main missions: promoting the white biotechnologies, improving the scientific innovation, binding the fundamental research and the industrial world. White biotechnologies are the used of industrial goals, including the use of cells and enzymes to create industrial products.
The Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi Pyrénées gathers several establishments of higher education and research of the Midi Pyrénées region.
The cluster of research and higher education “Université de Toulouse” created in 2007 combines skills in complementary and diversified fields such as science of matter, sciences of life, human and social sciences and engineering.
Our material sponsors
Air France, created in 1933, is the main French airline company. Its major activities are the transport of passengers, freight, as well as maintenance and servicing of planes.
The company takes part in the private group Air France - KLM and is also founder member of the union SkyTeam.
ICKO is the European leader of beekeeping material selling. Their goal is to focus their products of eco-friendliness, and to offer a wide range of references in order to help beekeepers to optimize and to improve their production while respecting the environment.
Bio Basic Group is a privately owned biotechnology company. The company has a wide variety of Life Science Products available to better serve researchers in the field of life sciences.
Mitsui Chemicals is a japanese company of chemistry field and mainly deals in performance materials, petro and basic chemicals and functional polymeric materials. Created in 1997, it is part of Mitsui group and have around 13 000 employees in the world.
New England Biolabs is a private society since 1974 and is the world leader of the production and selling of reagents in life sciences and biotechnology such as enzymes.
Qiagen is a company that helped us in given us some lab kits.
Qiagen was created in 1984 and is nowadays a leader in innovative market and technology by creating assay technologies that can enable the access to content from any biological sample. The main purpose is to help achieving success and major breakthroughs in life sciences. Qiagen offers a broad range of 500 products for over 500, 000 customers worldwide.
Metatoul: centre of expertise in metabolomics and fluxomics.
Metatoul is the metabolomics and fluxomics platform of Toulouse. It gathers skills (researchers, engineers, technicians) and technical means (heavy equipments : nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and mass spectrometry (MS)) for the global metabolism analysis.
Metatoul makes concepts, tools and methods linked to the analysis of the metabolism available for scientific community.
Communication help
Bros communication is a young and dynamic company created in 2008 by two brothers Baptiste and Julien Laurent. The main activities of the company are artistic direction, studio creation, public and corporate event direction, interior design, engineering and project coordination.
To realize our project, we created an account on Ulule, which is the first European crowdfunding website. We presented our project to the general public in a post to collect enough funds to have the opportunity to go to Boston. Indeed, the set objective of € 1,200 corresponded to the plane tickets fee. We are proud to say that we had 59 contributors who participated to collect € 1,780 !
A great thank from all our Team to:
Quentin Alasseur, Claude Alzieu, Rémi Barrère, Vincent Beauval, Bruno Berdaguer, Pascal Blain, Isabelle Chaumont, Bruno David, Daniel Dekens, Idrissa Diallo, Clémence Dunand, Michel Dunand, Gabriel Ferrand, Claudine Gody, Alexandra Gomez-Sabathier Carole Hache, Sylvie Husson, Bruno Jollet, Yann Le Scornet, Thomas Loubet, Catherine Magnin, Christine Marois, Albert Mendiri, Manon Molina, Pierrick Montagne, Camille Mont-Masson, Michel Muller, Anna Nom, Olivier Paquelet, Jean Perron, Jean-Luc Pingret, Hang Pham, Fanny Pineau, François Pons, Jean Pons, Alain Puccianti, Annie Rayne, Chloé Renaud, Benoit Ruher, Gaspard Seillan, Odile Sénéchal, Jean-Baptiste Trouche, Mark Webber.
If you are interested in any kind of partnership with the Toulouse iGEM team of this year or of the next year, please contact us at igemtoulouse2015@gmail.com.
