• Maria Bargués i Ribera

  24 years old M2 mSSB

  Coming from Barcelona, I finished this year the Master in Systems and Synthetic Biology (mSSB) in Évry. I started on the lab bench during my degree in Human Biology, but now computers have become my hands for doing science. In my near future, I plan to become a theoretical biologist working on dynamics of populations. Hobbies? Music as the key piece of the puzzle.

  I barely knew about iGEM before coming to Évry, but motivation of ex-participants was contagious. Constructing an own project on Synthetic biology in an interdisciplinary context sounds too appealing for refusing the opportunity. In the team, I have taken care of the modeling part and helped on the wet-lab, but my main role has been coordinating tasks and solving team flux bottlenecks.

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• Jean Debédat

  24 years old M2 mSSB

  Born and raised in Bordeaux, I moved to Paris when I joined the mSSB, as I’ve always been interested in new technologies and new approaches regarding Sciences. In parallel, I was finishing my industrial pharmacy curriculum.

  I decided to do iGEM very early last year, as it seemed really fun and a great opportunity to come together as students to carry out till the end an interdisciplinary project. As part of the team, I was mainly in charge of taking care of the Wiki and all the infographics.

  After the Jamboree, I’ll head right back to the lab, as I am now doing a PhD on the implications of the human gut microbiota in cardiometabolic diseases!

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• Delphine Dessaux

  26 years old M2 mSSB

  I am currently carrying out a master in Synthetic and Systems Biology in Evry, but I have a background mainly in biochemistry more precisely in the proteins study. I learnt about iGEM during my Bachelor degrees and I have always wanted to participate since then, but I couldn’t make it before this year. My motivations? I wanted to discover lots of new interesting things in biology (wet lab as well as computer sciences) and share a great adventure with students from various fields. My hobbies? I enjoy reading novels and watching movies, for both fantasy and science fiction are my favorite genres to nourish my imagination! A fun fact about me? I have no sense of direction, to the point that I lost my way in the lab several times during the first month of experiments. My ideal synthetic biology project would have an environmental angle with bioremediation or pollutant detection involved, for example. I am not too sure about my future career. After the Jamboree, I will start a PhD just and I plan to stay in academic research.

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• Vincent Gureghian

  25 years old M1 Biochemistry/Biotech

  Hey, I am Vincent and I just did a bachelor in Life sciences. I like to hike, to dive and to dance salsa, and I also love old hip-hop songs and funk music! Otherwise, I am making science animations for children! Fun fact: I have worked in an ice bar where even bacteria could not ^^

  I truly believe in the synthetic biology idea of what you cannot construct/explain, you cannot understand! In the team, I am doing what nobody wants to do, or what I feel needed to be done... Mostly wetlab and side tasks! The best synthetic biology project is ours, for sure!

  I only want my career to be interesting and I think orthogonal biology is an awesome topic!

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• Jordan Hartunians

  24 years old M2 mSSB

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• Taman Mhoumadi

  21 years oldM1 Health Law

  Hi, I am Taman ! I made an Erasmus before entering my Master and I wanted to taste international vibes once again. I am curious about everything so when I heard “international project” and “whatever your field of study, you can come”, I joined straight away.

  I like understanding scientific concepts but I am more interested on how it interacts with society and public perceptions. And as synthetic biology is new to me, it leads to funny conversations with the team.

  Mmh hobbies. Reading, running, playing theatre, watching theatre.

  My role in the project was to work on Human Practices and to coordinate the European Experience event that we co-organised.

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• Charlotte Nayrac

  22 years old L3 (Bsc) Biology

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• Amir Pandi

  24 years old M2 mSSB

  With a bachelor's degree in Cell and Molecular Biology from the University of Tehran, followed by a master in Systems and Synthetic Biology at the University of Paris-Saclay, I am starting my PhD on building genetic-metabolic circuits enabling complex computation using engineered bacterial.

  During the Master I joined iGEM mostly leading the Modeling team on parts design, metabolic network optimizatio and designing the dynamic regulation circuit. Then joining to the wet lab, I built BioBricks of the team in one shot because I am super lucky!

  Science and technology is my hobby! and love to think of how to develop sophisticated biological circuits doing applicable computations.

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• Robert Ramírez García

  26 years old M2 mSSB

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• Toky Ratovomanana

  20 years old M1 Bioinformatics

  Hello, my name is Toky and i'm a 3rd year student in bioinformatics coming from Madagascar. I'm passionate about technology, biohacking and neuro linguistic programming. In 2015 I heard about iGEM at the University of Evry and i knew that i wanted to participed in it.

  I am a computer geek. So i was involved in most of task requiring a computer. Designing primer, analysing sequences, modeling and building things virtually before we assembled them in the lab was main part of my task. Curious, I like to know what happen in the different part of the project and I love to bring my touch to help making things advance.

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• Jonathan Tellechea

  23 years old M2 mSSB

  My name is Jonathan. I was born in Uruguay and I studied Biotechnology in Spain. During this year I have been coursing a Master in Systems and Synthetic Biology in Evry. I am quite shy but I try to give my opinion always I can help. I decided to participate in iGEM because I truly think SynBio is the answer for many mankind problems and I love doing science! I have mainly worked on the bench but I have tried to help drylab team as much as I could.

• Mounia Saaidi

  24 years old M1

  I am Mounia, and I am very interested by the interface between biology and chemistry. It is an important aspect in the Master’s degree in pharmacology I want to pursue.

  On the other side of my personality coin, I really enjoy going out and do sport. I love to go to the cinema, I have been practicing Crossfit for more than 2 years.

  I have been given the chance to participate in the iGEM competition. I worked mainly in “wetlab”, I was involved in communication and sponsoring and I was helping in the design part (the wiki, the Tshirt,etc). For undergraduates (as me), it is an opportunity to get more experience in the setting up of a scientific project and in labwork.

  I really enjoyed the team spirit and the funny moments spending with the other members of the team! Humanly it was a good experience of sharing and collaboration.

Our Advisors and PIs

• Cécile Jacry

  25 years old Instructor & Advisor

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• Alba Iglesias

  23 years old Advisor

  Hi! My name is Alba, I did mSSB this year and I will start my PhD in Synthetic Biology very soon. I did iGEM twice as student and it was the best experience I've ever had.

  I love photography, reading and writing about science and watching movies. In conclusion, I'm still waiting for my Hogwarts letter.

• Bruno Colombo

  University of Evry-Val-d'Essonne PI

• Andrew Tolonen

  Genoscope PI