Team:Ionis Paris/Human Practice
The iGEM IONIS had the great pleasure to work at La Paillasse, a biohacker space situated in Paris. It is a community laboratories open to everyone who want to try one's hand at doing science. La Paillasse was created with the open source philosophy to support new form of innovation in the field of biology.
La Paillasse also aim to get together people from different backgrounds and let new ideas appear from this multidisciplinary.
The community of La Paillasse is composed of people with numerous background, from engineers to philosophe though designer, students and sociologist. However all those people come in the same purpose find an open space to realize their project. Several start-up have see the day at la Paillasse, Meiso (sensory insulation chamber), the Fly lab (innovative drone), Pili (ink making modified bacteria) for example.
This is in this multidisciplinary environment that our team have been evolved for several months. This environment had strengthen our though about the importance of multidisciplinary, it was important for us to listen to the comment make by non biologist persons, it allow us to have another point of view on our project conception or application. La Paillasse was the perfect place to carry out a project like ours. We had great time sharing information with the drone making persons from the Fly Lab and listen to the conference organized by La Paillasse.
Finally our team at the fantastic opportunity to closely work with the UMPC iGEM team, impact. We could share each other knowledge, have an external point of view on our project and manipulation. We also help each other when needed,
Our team is also really grateful to the laboratories INSERM …., that give us the material we needed
to arrange our paillasse.
Moreover, la Paillasse give us the possibility to expose our project to the numerous persons that went visiting this buzzing place. We were pleased to share our experience with people from many field such as people from big companies including L'Oréal, ENGIE, but also to the French secretary of state in charge of the higher education and research, Thierry Mandon
