Human Practices
Our team organized and participated to many events in order to promote the synthetic biology and our project. Here is listed all the events and the team members who participated to them. We also met stakeholders in order to learn more about CRISPR-Cas9.
Meeting Stakeholders
Mrs Genevieve Fioraso : French deputy, former ministry of Higher Education and research. She wrote a report on synthetic biology for the French Parliament.
Mrs Catherine Procaccia: French Senator. She is working on a report for the French Parliament on economical and environnemental issues of new biotechnologies, especially CRISPR-Cas9.
Dr Agnès Ricroch: Professor at AgroParisTech school working on plants and their regulations.
Pr Marc Fellous: Emeritus Professor at Paris Diderot University and Medical Doctor
Mr Eric Enderlin: French and European Patent Attorney at Novagraaf.
CRISPR Cas-9 Conference
We organized a conference in Paris-Sud University about the societal issues of CRISPR-Cas9. Claire, Marin and Laetitia contacted the lecturers. Caroline introduced the CRISPR-Cas9 technology and its origins. Laetitia introduced the iGEM competition and the Paris Saclay's team. The lecturers were Pierre Walrafen, an European Patent Attorney, and Jean Denis Faure, a researcher and professor at AgroParisTech school.
Exhibition at Nanterre University
With the help of Stella Pacheco from the CROUS of Versailles, the TEAM hold an exhibition at Nanterre University called "This is not a Lemon". Our goal was to raise awareness about Synthetic Biology, collect opinions about it and talk about the iGEM competition with a non scientific audience. Some of us, Caroline, Marion, Alice and Claire ensured permanences to meet people and answer to their questions. Great moment of exchange !
Festival Vivant 2016
We had the opportunity to promote our project during 3 days. Marin, Coline, Caroline, Maxence, Carla, Laetitia, Mathilde and Naiane took turns presenting the project to a broad audience.
Fête de la science
The "Fête de la science" is a national event organized by severals universities, like Paris-Saclay university. It aims to promote science in general and it was another opportunity to promote our project to a non scientific public. We received mostly families and we explained the synthetic biology to children. Caroline, Naiane, Yacine and Carla were there to represent the iGEM Paris-Saclay team 2016.
Meet-up Ile de France
The Meet-up Ile de France was co-organized with iGEM team Paris Pasteur. It took place on the 6th of August in Pasteur Paris Institute. It was a meeting of several iGEM teams of Paris Region: Paris Bettencourt, Evry, Ionis Paris, Pasteur Paris, and ourselves, Paris Saclay.
Naiane was the one who took care of the organization and communication along with Pasteur Paris teams members. Colline and Léa presented the project during a 15min speach. Most of us were present to share with the other teams, get to know projects and people. This was a great day of summer under Paris sun.
Vox Pop
Marin and Carla went with their camera to the Luxembourg's garden in Paris to interview the parisian and know more their opinion about synthetic biology. Marin edited the video.
Communication
Naiane was in charge of the social networks and she posted constantly on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. She also contacted the Paris-Saclay Media in order to promote the iGEM Competition and our team's project inside the Paris Saclay Complex.
Carla designed the team's logo and the marketing strategy with the romantic thematic "Get DNA Closer".
Research
In order to build our project we had to do a lot of bibliographic work and we meet researchers who helped us to realize the project.
Dr. Olivier Espéli who is a reseacher and an expert in genome dynamics study at collège-de-France, accepted to receive Victor, Manhaz, Marion and Philippe. The assessment of this meeting was several information concerning the guideline of the project, more precisely: think about a reporter system (visualisation tool) or which area we should target (for instance:ter site or replichores right ).
Dr. David Bikard, a reseacher at the Institut Pasteur in Paris and an expert on CRISPR/Cas9 utilization, was meet by Victor, Caroline and Léa. He helped us choosing which orthologous dCas9s to use for our project, in order to maintain the sgRNA/dCas9 recognition specificity.
Our project was split in two part: Visualisation and link two DNA strand. In the part visualization, Caroline, Charlène and Léa made all the bibliographic part and they design the biobricks. Maxence, Victor, Coline and Manhaz were in charge of the linking part of the project.
Financial support
Without a financial support, our project would have been difficult to conduct. This is why Yacine and Carla contacted a lot of company in order to suggest them to support our project for this year. Alice, Marion and Fabio met a scientist from Mondelez Company who asked us to present our project "Get DNA closer". The team also get involved into a crowdfunding campaign and in order to explain our project we made a video , Carla was in charge of the drawings and the voiceover. The video material was provided by Martin and filmed by him. Claire completed a file to receive a financial support from the Office for Science & Technology at the Embassy of France in the United States.
Laboratory
Without our excellent lab team, our project would have never seen the light. During the summer Laetitia, Mathilde, Caroline, Marion, Léa, Charlène, Terrence, Naiane and Alice. Then in September and October, Maxence and Mahnaz were in charge of the lab and they are the ones who made the final biobricks. Furthermore, the instructors (Claire, Marie & Olivier) and the PI (Philippe & Sylvie) have guided the team during all the lab work.
During the lab work, we met several people who gratefully helped us:
- Dr Annick Jack for the Western-Blot
- Isabelle Hatin for the cytometry
- Olivier Bugaud for the cytometry
- Emmanuel Dassa for providing the lab
- Sylvain Pendino and Myriam Swist for helping us with the culture midium preparation and strelisization
- Chantal Bohn for help us with the sequencing
Model
This part of the project was almost entirely made by Marion, our bioinformatician. During the summer she worked hard to build this part of the project. We want to thank Claire Toffano-Nioche, Emily Drouineau and Matthieu Sarazin for their help and their advices during the internship
Wiki Design
The Design of our Wiki has been done by Gaetan with the help of Maxime Schaffhauser, a web writer student and it has been coded by Fabio.
To sum up
To sum up the attribution part, we set a table up in order to show what each team member did, with all the information previously presented.
| Student name
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Attribution
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| Alice
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Financial support/Lab/Safety
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| Carla
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Financial support/Communication/Design logo and website/Festival vivant/vox pop/Lab
|
| Caroline
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Research/Lab/Strategy/Biobrick Design/Festival vivant/Lecture CRISPR Cas9/Poster design
|
| Charlène
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Research/Lab/Biobrick design/Lecture CRISPR-Cas9/Poster design
|
| Claire
|
Human practices/Lecture CRISPR-Cas9/meeting stakeholders/Exhibition Nanterre University / Financial support
|
| Coline
|
Biobrick Design/Lab/Festival vivant/Partnership/Communication
|
| Etienne
|
Modelisation
|
| Gaëtan
|
Wiki design
|
| Laetitia
|
Human practices/Lab
|
| Léa
|
Lab/Biobrick design/Communication
|
| Mahnaz
|
Lab/Project Design/Interviews of researchers
|
| Mathilde
|
Lab/Poster Design/Festival du vivant/Finance/meeting stakeholders
|
| Marin
|
Human practices/Communication/Festival vivant/vox pop/Lecture CRISPR Cas9/RRI test/ meeting stakeholders
|
| Marion
|
Modelisation/Lab
|
| Maxence
|
Lab/Project Design/Wiki supervision
|
| Naiane
|
Communication/Lab/Organization Meet-up Ile de France
|
| Terrence
|
Communication/Lab/Logo design
|
| Victor
|
Interviews of researchers/Lab/Project Design
|
| Yacine
|
Financial support/Goodies
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