Team

We are the 2015 version of the Paris-Saclay team and we will proudly represent the Paris Saclay University at Boston for the fourth consecutive year. The first Team Paris Saclay was created in 2011 by both students and researchers fans of synthetic Biology who had heard about a competition which was becoming more and more important on the other side of the Atlantic, the iGEM competition.

Our team is composed of students from different scientific fields forming a formidable multidisciplinary group. We are advised by two PhD and 4 researchers at the Institute of Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC). This institute regroups 80 teams of scientists, 15 technological facilities from 8 research units. It hosts us and helps us every year for the realisation of our project and we thank all the members and managers of the institute for their very welcoming care.

Students

Audrey Moatti

2nd year of Immunology Master
a.k.a: Fishers
If you were a BioBrick, which behaviours would you have? A system which permits to change the bacteria color depending of its mood: it would be green if the bacteria feels happy, red if it's angry, and black if it feels depressed or wistful.
One talent: Best piggy imitation ever.
Funniest lab disaster: For my first iGEM lab day, I did drop a full tube of glass beads on the lab floor. The easiest way to generate head injury... (there is still one or two beads hidden somewhere)

Cheikh Fall Ndiaye

Physics & Engineering of Energy
a.k.a: Undisclosed
If you were a BioBrick, which behaviours would you have? Sequencing.
Bragging rights: Loading.
Funniest lab disaster: Error 404 : disaster information not found (or classified).

Coralie Demon-Chaine

1st year of Cancerology Master
a.k.a: Ko
If you were a BioBrick, which behaviours would you have? a system to produce caffein in my stomach inducible by closing the eyelids.
One talent: The big ridiculous smile to my colleagues which means "could you make an agarose gel for me please?"
Funniest lab disaster: Everything that implicates a computer or other technology...

Ibtissam Kaid-Slimane

Microbiology Master's Degree
a.k.a: Sleepy Stone
If you were a BioBrick, which behaviours would you have? a system which activates a hidden source of energy with a continous supply of chocolate to cope with crisis moments.
One talent: I can blew out people's eardrums, thanks to my legendary scream.
Funniest lab disaster: I maybe one day took a funny picture of my friend while doing experiments and posted on twitter .... accidently the whole world discovered that lab coats are not always part of our dress code

Johan Bourdarias

Bio-chemistry bachelor
a.k.a: boubou91
If you were a BioBrick, which behaviours would you have? a system.
One talent: I can write my firstname in all languages.
Funniest lab disaster: All the team conclued that my music was the worst lab disaster

Pauline Aubert

Chemistry bachelor
a.k.a: Po
If you were a BioBrick, which behaviours would you have? I would produced a coloured molecule.
One talent: I am particularly good at making start Audrey.
Funniest lab disaster: I am certainly the one who did the most gaff in the lab.

Seong Koo Kang

Bio-chemistry Bachelor
a.k.a: SK
If you were a BioBrick, which behaviours would you have? A system that doesn't need food to works.

Advisors

Alice Devigne

Claire Baudier

Fabio Maschi

Computer Engineering, University of Paris Saclay
a.k.a:
One talent: 72 hours without sleep working in this wiki
Responsabilities: Wiki slaver, student advisor, driver for the meet ups, coffee boy.

Maher Ben Khaled

Fundamental microbiology, University of Paris Saclay
a.k.a: The spammer
One talent: I can speak with bacteria, I get along very well with E. coli K12
Funniest lab disaster: I lost count
Responsabilities: Human practices, internal and external communication, student advisor.