Team:Toulouse/Attributions
Attributions
The iGEM competition is an enriching experience in our student life, and thanks to this competition we gained a lot of important skills.
Indeed, we needed to find sponsors and became experts at phone calling. We also needed to communicate about our project and learned to make visiting cards, newsletters, and to be at explaining about our project and synthetic biology to the general public. Moreover we had to get in touch with different people such as administrators, scientists, beekeepers, specialists, an ethical expert and other iGEM teams and learned a lot through these interactions.
In this part, we want to thank all the persons who contributed to our project by sharing their experience, their knowledge, and their interest.
General support
Our thanks to:
M. Brice Enjalbert for leading the project, for his advice and his availability.
All our advisors who helped us develop our ideas during the brainstorming, and volunteered their knowledge of synthetic biology, microbiology...
The LISBP that gave us full access to the lab and the material we needed, allowing us to work under very good conditions all through the summer.
Our sponsors, for the financial support that enabled us to give reality to our project.
M. Thierry Dufresne (Observatoire Français d’Apidologie), and M. Yves Leconte (INRA Avignon) for all their references in the field of beekeeping, bees and varroas.
M. Vincent Grégoire-Delory and Simon Desbois who were with us throughout our ethical thinking process and thus helped us build the foundations of our project.
Project support
To implement our project, we needed to understand the functioning of a beehive and the bees behaviour. Christian Boucher is a researcher from a famous French lab and has some beehives. He agreed to meet us and was able to inform us about bees and to advise us on the molecular biology part of our project. He was a helpful link between bees and biology, and we thank him for his availability.
We owe M. Gilles Truan our deepest gratitude for his availability, and his unreserved support on synthetic biology and genetic regulation.
To analyse the supernatant of our cultures (and particularly to try to detect our compounds of interest), we used the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) of the Metatoul platform. We would like to thank them warmly for making this state-of-the-art technology available to us.
Also thanks to Mrs Lindsay Peyriga, who showed our team members how to correctly prepare NMR samples, how to run acquisitions and helped them with the interpretation of the results.
Fundraising help
Lab support
Project advisors
Wiki support
Presentation coaching
Human Practices support
Acknowledgement
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