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With great help from two of our fellow Parisian teams, iGEM Paris Saclay and iGEM IONIS, we hosted the iGEM Ile-de-France MeetUp on August 6 at the Pasteur Institute. This event was the highlight of our summer. The attendees of the MeetUp were people from iGEM Paris Bettencourt, iGEM Evry, iGEM Ionis, iGEM UPMC (IMPACT), and iGEM Paris Saclay. Every team had a 20 minutes presentation of their project, followed by questions and comments from the judges and the audience. The essence of the MeetUp was getting feedback and constructive criticism of the projects from the judges. In the judging committee we had:
Deshmukh GOPAUL |
Institut Pasteur | PI iGEM Pasteur |
Fabio MASCHI |
Universite Paris Sud | Advisor iGEM Paris-Saclay |
Guillian GRAVES |
ENSCI | Instructor iGEM Pasteur |
Mathis FUNK |
Institut de Cancerologie Gustave Roussy | PhD student (Identification and characterization of endogenous retroviral envelope genes implicated in establishment and persistence of epitheliochorial placentas) |
Matthieu FRITZ |
Institut Pasteur | PhD student (molecular genetics of RNA viruses) |
Organized by the Ionis Paris iGEM team and the Evry iGEM team, The European Experience was an event which took place in Paris gathering most of the European iGEM teams. During this event we had the opportunity to not just share our project during a poster presentation but we also had time to learn what so many other teams were working on. It was a good way to share science and have open dialogue between teams in a friendly atomosphere.
We also listened to oral presentations given by synthetic biology scientists and entrepreneurs. And we had an extra special treat to hear a speech from Randy Rettberg, what an honor it was to not just hear him but be apart of this experience!!
