Meet-up Ile-de-France
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) |
The cherry on top of the Meetup was the quick demonstration of a drone given by a start-up company from Montreuil named ’Civic drone’ during the lunch break, but also the picnic in the hidden garden of the Pasteur Institute where all the teams gathered and bonded over wine and sandwiches.