KILL XYL idea

KILL XYL project came from many brainstorming with all the team. Jérémy Cartalas (quorum sensing), Hussein Daher (enzyme) and Camille Garcia (phage-like particle) played a major role in the project and biobricks design.

Funding

All of the project funding came from the work of Sophie Laporte, Flora Sciuto, Jérémy Cartalas, Myriam Azzarelli and Emeline Goll.

Biobrick assembly

All the experiments were conducted by Soraya El Hamdaoui, Robin Mera, Hussein Daher, Jérémy Cartalas, Myriam Azzarelli, Flora Sciuto (biobrick assembly and biobrick standardization), Camille Garcia and Marie Salomon-Mallet (modification of M13KO7).

InterLab and test experiment

All the InterLab experiments were done by Lisa Frugoli. Test with phages and phage-like particles were conducted by Thibault Bongiovanni. Lisa Frugoli was also in charge of all the test with Arabidopsis thaliana. Our instructor Gauthier Dangla-Pelissier did the biofilm test with Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

Human Practices

Ema El Djoudi and Lucile Dupré developed the public and olive growers surveys.

Camille Garcia and Lisa Frugoli ask the help of the expert Mireille Ansaldi (bacteriophages) and Jacques Van Helden (Metagenomics). Marie-Agnès Jacques, expert in Xylella fastidiosa, was contacted by Myriam Azzarelli.

Lucile Dupré and Sophie Laporte represented our team in the "Forum des biothenologies" at Polytech Marseille. Camille Garcia and the advisor François Morlet went the library du Merlant at Marseille to teach children about use of synthetic biology. They also represented our team in the "Village des Sciences" Marseille.

Modeling

All the team modeling was performed by Erwan Eriau.

Hardware

Design and construction of the camera was done by Julien Santoni and Guillaume Hernandez.

Collaboration

The modelling work for INSA-UPS_France team collaboration was performed by Martin Mestagh. Camille Garcia was in charge of the collaboration with the Evry Paris-Saclay team and Lucile Dupré did the collaboration with Valencia UPV team.

Wiki

All of us participate in the design and creation of the wiki, with the precious help of our advisor François Morlet. Louis Villard and Camille Garcia also create our web site.

Art, Poster and Talk

All of us played a role in the creation of our design. The poster and the talk were also create with the help of all of the team.

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank all the advisors and instructors that help us for the wetlab and performed an outstanding job : Laetitia Houot, Valerie Prima, Sandra Michel, Gauthier Dangla-Pelissier, Bordi Christophe, Tangui Messina and Marcel Giansily. We also thank Marlon Sidore for his supervision with the modeling and collaboration part. We would like to thank the LGBP lab at Marseille for their help with Arabidopsis thaliana. Finally, we are grateful to our PI James Sturgis, without his precious support the KILL XYL project would have not been created.