Meet the team
Crispy Crispy E. coli . He will not rest until he has matched every lonely DNA molecule to another.
Students Marion Sevin
Slim, brunette with mysterious eyes is looking for you, passionate male… You will enjoy my bewitching voice, while I am telling you the story of modeling and bioinformatics. I love men that whisper equations in my ears. That is so romantic! We could have great moments together. I love listening rock music, travelling around the world, seeing my friends and eating lasagnas!
Yacine Kabeche
Young man with dark eyes is looking for a woman with whom he will build not a weak link like hydrogen but a strong link like disulfide bridge! I want us to be as compatible as guanine and cytosine are. To me a relationship is a question of symbiosis. Contact me, it will be worth it!
Charlène Valadon
Hi guy! I’m a 22-year old Parisian girl, who love watching TV and playing video games. I’m above all a biologist but also a good cooker. If you’re not scary about some bacteria in your pancakes, or to be with a kind of Hobbit (a reference to my size and not to my beard) you can be my soulmate. Text me and we could spend some good times, transform our lives. Ps: I’m a little bit crazy too…
Caroline Correia
Hi handsome! I'm a master student in neuroscience, looking for a strong and successful man to go deep into my brain. I’m craving for a real man able to overwhelm me with dopamine. Short girl with Portuguese roots, I want to find someone who can dance all night long on the rhythm of the sun. Passionate about travelling, we might walk together throughout the world and end up at the Caribbean.
Mahnaz Sabeti Azad
Beautiful Top Model sized Iranian Lady, I've won a lot of beauty prizes all around the world. Passionate about microbiology, I will be soon a PhD student. Crazy driver, I'm looking for a fearless man who will not be afraid to take a ride with me! Come to my lab and I will show you how I can handle my plates!
Naiane R. Rios
I’m a sweet Latina girl, still adjusting to my French life. I love the feeling of the sun on my soft skin, hot tropical nights and long walks in Montmartre. On my everyday life, I’m a badass biologist. I’d like a guy who's hot like a stove and steady like the touch of a pipette. An artist able to draw on Petri dishes, recite me romantic poems all night long, and more if we hit it off!
Marin Brenac
Perfect male for all female around the world, I love Law and LawL! If you share the same passion for play with words you're my girl, because I'm looking for someone who can explain me the weird biology jokes made by my team.
Claire Schaffhauser
Hi you! Do you wanna go for a ride? I'm a strong, beautiful, funny law student girl, living in the IP/IT world. Life in patent law, it's fantastic! If you are a tea lover as well maybe we can go party together and have fun!
Victor Billon Life is too busy at the moment between ENS and the Institut Pasteur, so I'd like to meet someone who shares my passion for hikes and outdoor photo shootings during weekends on the most unexpected places. People always think I'm too serious at first, but if you stick around you'll see I'm actually a teddy bear.
Mathilde Falieres
I ain’t gonna lie, I’m kinda perfect. People often call me lab queen cause I’m a bacteria whisperer. As a biologist student, I’m lookin’ for a healthy relationship: up to date vaccinations for smallpox and polio is mandatory, influenza vaccine would be a plus. If your final aim is also to create Pokémon, you should definitely message me. Maybe we could take over the world together. Come make crazy science with me ;)
Etienne Kukielczynski
I'm a young physicist, passionate about aviation and ready to commit with a gal able to bring some adrenaline into my life. My head and dreams may be in the clouds but from there I can also reach the end of the rainbow. Instead of gold I could gain your love, as the final prize.
Gaëtan Cousin Hey everyone, I’m Gaetan! I’m a nice French guy, and a good looking IT student (yes, it does exist!). You‘ll enjoy my love for challenges. I’m looking for a girl who will find cute things like “don’t blink challenge”! If you want to become THE girl, you won’t mind about me having my daily dose of video games. I’ll take you into one of my famous train trips through Europe, and I can ensure you won’t regret it!
Alice L'Huillier
Hey you! I’m a sweet girl and I love doing biology and play around with my pipette. If you are a boy and love new experiences, beware, because I like to heat it up, just like a PCR. Come to my lab, there are so many things to discover!
Terrence Tran
Hey chicks! I’m a good looking, good cooker, clever and rich Asian guy, just looking for a girl ready to bear my perfections! If this doesn’t work, I could use magic tricks to seduce you, but be careful, I won’t show you all my cards at the beginning! Watch out lady, because if you are not nice you may taste a handmade mayonnaise with a very special modified bacterium of mine!
Léa Talbot
I'm a small town girl who loves bunnies, walks on the beach and pipettors which firmly ejects their tips. I'm currently living in Paris and looking for a partner who's hot 'n steamy like an autoclave. A guy who'd love to set up an overnight at 37°C with me and won't complain about streaking plates on weekends. You need to do a lot more than dissolving LB on the microwave. I want a real man who can wash his own lab coat.
Laetitia Perrin
Hey you! I'm a 3rd year student in Science and technologies, specializing in Bio-engineering. In fact, I love biology: playing with little yeasts, bacteria and eating them! Yes, I like baking (and eating!) and I'd like a guy to share my love of sweet yeast and bake special mutant cakes for him.
Carla Faria
Next year I'll start my Master in Biology & Health and I have the ambition to build a career in oncology research. Designer, drawer, communicator, scientist: those are the skills that I used for iGEM this year. Biology is my first love but Art is my second and now I'm looking for the third! I'm always ready to make new discoveries! I'm optimistic and I keep smiling all the time. I'm always ready to party and enjoy life!
Coline Sivelle
I'm a tall brunette, born and raised in the French Alpes, so when I say I'm looking for adventure, it's high level adrenaline adventure. Someone as wild and sweet as me, a difficult combination to find, I must say. I'm starting a PhD soon so not a lot of time for serious commitment. If you think you're up for the challenge, contact me, we can go to my lab and I can show you how we can grow something together.
Maxence Pfeiffer
Hey there! Maxence is talking to you! I am a very friendly soon graduated biology engineer, and I am looking for a girl who’d follow me in every parties! Of course, I have a few requirements. She’ll have to enjoy a glass of good alsacian white wine with a piece of "tarte flambée", and not to be jealous of my many friends! I hope you’ll think the way I disguise myself for costume parties is cute. I’m also ready to share my love for travelling with you!
Instructors Fabio Maschi
I'm a shy kind of guy who loves programming, so no one believes me when I tell them I'm brazilian. I like spending holidays at the beach but what I really love is to travel, so wherever you invite me I'll go. I say to people I came to France to study but the truth is I came to find love. I'm still looking for it though. If you enjoy having a quiet weekend playing LOL, drinking wine or traveling somewhere wild, we should definitely meet.
Claire Baudier
I LOVE sciences, especially maths and biology. That’s why I started my PhD two years ago. But, you know, sometimes I feel a bit down when bacteria resist me. So I’m looking for a PhD partner who would like to help me bringing up lovely Bacillus Subtilis. It needs a lot of love and care but is a wonderful companion and I am sure it will grow way beyond all expectations. And when Baci is happy, how can’t I be?
Marie Rouquette
Hi I'm Marie! I'm an engineer who is now doing a PhD in chemistry and biology. I'm working on nanoparticules and I'm looking for someone who shares my interest for very small things (size does not matter!). So if you're in, let's meet and see if there's chemistry...
Sylvie Lautru Hello you! I’m Sylvie and if you want to know my age you have to guess it. I’m in charge of my lab, so you don’t have to be afraid about authoritarian and hardworking woman. I’m looking for a real man and if you want I could explain you the bases of Biology. I accept candidatures of any age as long as you don’t need a cane.
Philippe Bouloc
Olivier Namy Hey ladies! A very gallant handsome man is waiting to take you for a long walk on the beach! In my everyday life, I’m the head of a laboratory. I very much appreciate to be called “chief”, but when it comes to love, I’m as faithful as a polymerase. You might not understand all the stuff I will tell you about translation, but I’m OK with this. If you ever have problems with Snapgene, I’m your guy!
We want to send all our love to our sponsors and thank them for the support they provided us. Our whole project would not have been possible without them.
Here is the list of our partners, who they are and what they offered us. A big THANK YOU to all!
Paris-Saclay University FSDIE 7,100€
A small percentage of the university tuition fees goes each year to the [http://www.u-psud.fr/en/index.html Fond de Solidarité et de Développement des Initiatives Etudiantes] (Fund for Solidarity and Development of Student Initiatives, FSDIE), whose goal is to help students realise projects (regarding science, sport, solidarity, etc). Students should present an application form which is examined by a jury composed of student representatives and teachers.
They are several criteria of evaluation:
the number of students implicated in the project
the philanthropic aspect of the project
the educative aspect of the project. What enrichment will the project provide to the participating students?
The reputation and what it can bring to the university We worked hard so our presence in Boston participates to our university renown!
I2BC 4,000€, material donation and experiment facilities
The [http://www.i2bc.paris-saclay.fr/?lang=en Institute of Integrative Biology of the Cell] is a lab supported by both Université Paris-Sud, the CNRS and the CEA. The institute includes 80 teams of scientists and 15 facilities from 8 research units. It is located in 3 different research campus (Orsay in the Paris-Sud University, Gif-Sur-Yvette in the CNRS, Saclay campus in the CEA).
Our supervisors are from this institute.
The institute offered us funding and the welcome opportunity to perform our experiments in their buildings.
No experimentation would have been possible without their tremendous help!
Institut Villebon Georges Charpak 1,850€ and material donation
The [http://www.villebon-charpak.fr/ Villebon Georges Charpak Institute] aims to form undergraduates students to science and technologies with very innovative educative approaches. Two of our iGEM members follow this course and had the opportunity to come to Boston thanks to the substantial help of the Institute.
Magistère of Biology 700€
The Magistère of Biology is a diploma which can be obtained in France after 3 years of study. Courses are delivered by teachers from public (CNRS, INRA, University) and private (Research & Development) company as well as managers from the bio-industry, and cover various aspect of biology (science but also marketing, communication, journalism…).
This year, 6 of our team members follow this training.
School BMP 8,000€
The Paris-Saclay University is structured in several « schools » which are in charge of organizing education on a specific scientific field. Every School is in direct link with one or several research department from the university.
The Biology Medecine Pharmacy (BMP) school coordinates 4 masters from different institutes of the Paris-Saclay University:
Paris-Sud University
ENS de Cachan
Ecole Polytechnique
Versailles-Saint-Quentin University
Evry Val d'Essonne University Its strength relies on the impressive amount of laboratories implicated in this training.
Their financial support is a blessing for our team!
Public funding French Embassy in the United States 1,250€
The [http://franceintheus.org/ Embassy of France], located in Washington D.C., is the primary French diplomatic mission to the United States. They offered us 1,250€ so we could come to Boston and show French scientific enthusiasm on synthetic biology. We will do our best to represent our country!
Private companies NEB Material donation
New England BioLabs provides high-quality research products to the world scientific community and supports this dedication with extensive quality control testing. Their generosity towards iGEM teams has long been known and is still up-to-date!
Crowdfunding Ulule 1,233€
Ulule is a crowdfunding website created in 2010.
16 people contributing to our project because they believed it was important for us and for science. Thank you for making our dream come true!
