Team:INSA-UPS France/test/description
For the nine of us, iGEM is the biggest project we’ve ever been part of. Yet, as dedicated and hard-working as we are, our Croc’n Cholera project wouldn’t have been possible without all the help we received. We feel blessed thinking to all of the people that advised, supported and believed in us, whenever we needed help (some of them literally came at our rescue!). We believe that talking to so much people from so many backgrounds really represents the iGEM spirit. Let’s call this our personal little reward.
For all of you who help us throughout this awesome adventure, thank you very much!
First and foremost, we want thank our amazing PIs and all of our instructors who followed us relentlessly from the beginning to end: brainstorming, designing, experimenting, writing, presenting,... Basically all the aspects of our project!
When you have a scientific project, it’s better if you can go and experiment in a lab... We would like to thank the Biochemical Engineering Department of INSA Toulouse for letting us use the their labs the whole summer, with all the basic equipments.
Basic equipments are awesome, high tech ones are even better! That’s why, we want to thank the LISBP, along with the Metatoul and GeT-Biopuce technological plateforms for letting use their efficient (and expensive!) technological resources : NMR analysis, nanodropping, lyophilizer, etc.
For the same reasons, we want to thank the LBME for letting us use their lab for some important experiments (RTq PCR is the best!)
Finally, we would like to thank those who was here before us, members of the 2016 iGEM Toulouse Team, for advising us with their one year experience.
The first to enter the show is Sylvie Cancel, one of the Biochemical Engineering Department technicians of INSA Toulouse. Her help was incommensurable in the lab. She always tried to fix every little problem that we had.
We couldn’t work on vibrios without contacting Bassler Labs. We would like to thank them for kindly giving us two strains of Vibrio harveyi: the WT BB120 and the mutant JMH626.
Thanks to a conference on Pichia pastoris, we come to know Diethart Matanovich. Many thanks to him for all the advice he gave us on this lovely yeast.
Also, we want to thank Marc Carnicer Heras for giving us one of his strains of P. pastoris (SMD1168).
You don’t transform V. harveyi, you conjugate it. We want to thank Céline Loot for advising us with conjugation mysteries.
On the same topic, Matthieu Arlat was also a great help. Many thanks for his help on conjugation protocol and for giving us conjugation plasmids: (pBBR1MCS-4, pBBR1MCS-5) and for the E. coli helper strain containing pRK2073.
And as we needed to work on E. coli first, thanks to Sylvie Reverchon for giving us the plasmid pBR322.
We want to thank all the researchers, technicians, PhD students of the LISBP, who help us during our experimentations:
To begin with, we want to thank two amazing people for their deep involvement in our human practices strategy:
Then, we want to thank two members of the NGOs Doctors without Border and Unicef. Thanks to the help of Claire Salvador and Alama Keita respectively, we’ve been able to fully understand the current situation of the fight against cholera.
The following people helped us for our public engagement actions. It was a great experience to work with all of you!
We want to really thank Carlos Hoffmann and Julien Hypolite, our game designer students who made our idea of creating a card game on microbial diversity come to life. You guys are the best!
Many thanks to the three teachers who let us educate children about microbial diversity and basic science technique. Lakanal School: Alice Matricon. Patte d’Oie School: Nicole Bach and Martine Durand. We would like to also thank Mallory Wolff, the one who made us get in touch with those three teachers, and Marc Zanoni. Both of them helped us to create our education intervention
We want to thank the Cirasti association and Marième Leygonie for allowing to participate to their local scientific event. Banana DNA Extraction is so fun!
We want to thank Laetitia Guillard, Anne-Laure Aymard and Huguet Emeline for helping us organize our exhibition on all the iGEM Toulouse project from 2013.
For this one, we want to thank very much Kaymeuang Cam for coming to our rescue while we needed a room on campus to organize our seminar. Also, many thanks to all of our speakers:
We would like to give special thank to the CEO of Sunwaterlife, Christophe Camperi-Ginestet, who helped us to carry out our project in many ways: help to design the shape of our device, supply of filtration membranes, intermediary between Unicef and us and of course financial support.
We would like to thank very much Pierre-Alain Hoffmann, deputy director of the CRITT of Toulouse, who built with us our business plan and was always cheerful and motivated while working with us.
About our device, we want to thank Emmanuel Tainturier from Mitsui and Co, who believed enough in us and our project to send us a sample of the TPX material.
In addition, it is important for us to thank Jean-Jacques Dumas for helping us creating a 3D model of our device on SolidWorks, to illustrate the best way possible all of our communication supports.
Last but not least, we want to thank Marc Lemonnier, CEO of the firm Antabio, who gave us precious advice about the launching of a startup
In this category, we just one and only help: we want to deeply thank Sara Dumas who spent her whole summer drawing for us. She is the real mother of Sobki, and author of all the crocodile illustrations on our wiki. She is a real artist!
Fundraising is big part of our project, because every iGEM Toulouse Team starts from nothing. It is very important for us to thank those who helped us dealing with actual and potential sponsors:
Coming from scientific faculty and engineering schools, communication was quite a mystery for us. Thus, we would like to thank very much Christelle Labruyère for all her precious advice. Also, we want to thank all of the communication staff of our three faculty/schools for helping us reaching several media.
In this way, many thanks to all the journalists that came in the lab to discover our work and write a newspaper page on us:
Great thanks to:
iGEM UPS-INSA Toulouse 2017
Attributions
General acknowledgments
Wet Lab helps
Humans Practices Supports
Entrepreneurship advice
Wiki drawings help
Fundraising help
Communication advice
Unclassifiable supports… Yet very important !
