Anna Segú Cristina
For all her advice and help in molecular and cellular biology. She also spent a lot of time reading and correcting the wiki content.

Deshmukh Gopaul
For being absolutely everywhere, and aware of everything at every time. More than a leader, his strong knowledge in biology provided us a large amount of help and advices in the lab.

Guillian Graves
For helping us with all the design part of our project. He was always supportive, professional, and understanding, which allowed us to stay motivated no matter what.

Serena Petracchini
For all the help she has given us in the cellular culture lab work. She has been essential for enzymatic digestions et seeding neurons. And last but not least, she was the key advisor for the Interlab practical work.

The iGEM competition demands a lot of work in terms of research, lab experiments, engineering, modeling, human practices, fundraising, communication and ethics. The multidisciplinarity of our team allowed us to divide tasks to better match our members’ interest and experience. The knowledge of each team member enriched our initial formation.

Charlotte and Thomas laid the foundations of the biobrick sequences which were then perfected for the cloning strategy all together with Eléa, Gabriela, Manon and Jonathan.

Charlotte, Elea, Gabriela, Jonathan and Manon spent all their summer in lab to do the microbiology part. Alice, Aymen, Ellyn, and Léa helped occasionally to learn more about microbiological experimentations.

Thanks to their biological background and internships, Manon and Sarah were able to perform the neuronal cell culture, with the help of our advisors Anna and Serena.

Andreas and Antoine spent a huge amount of time manufacturing and designing the different types of microfluidic chips : the basic micro-channel chips, microfluidic well chips and the simple or double membrane micro-channel chips. They also established the conductivity part with the different membranes. Ellyn helped for the experiments.

Alice, Léa and Samuel were in charge of the InterLab Study and received help from our advisor Serena. They did the experimentations, the measurement experiments, and processed the data.

The modeling part was divided in two parts: Aymen realized the mechanical modeling of a bone’s bond to a prosthesis, and Alice, Charlotte and Samuel who did the modeling of secretion, diffusion and influence of NGF on nerve growth.

This important part of our project was done by Claire, Etienne and Florian. They realized the visual identity of NeuronArch and did the communication supports. They spent most of their time designing the prototype of our interface and imagining the possible user scenarios of our device. To do so, they met companies, health professionals and interviewed patients.

Props to Thomas who designed and coded most of the pages of our wonderful wiki. Ellyn and Léa also contribute a lot to the construction of the wiki. Andreas took care of the “Protocol” part on the wiki. Andreas, Charlotte, Elea, Emma, Gabriela, Kelly, Jonathan, Léa, Manon, and Sarah wrote all the wiki content. Jonathan also realized the majority of the amazing biology sketches!

Alice, Antoine, Aymen, Charlotte, Claire, Ellyn, Etienne, Kelly and Samuel did all the sponsors research and contacted a lot of companies in order to carry out our project. Deshmukh allowed us to open a Crowdfunding on Thellie, which was essential to our project.

Emma, Gabriela and Manon were in charge of ensuring communication on our social networks: Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Antoine, Samuel, and Sarah carried out the business plan composed of the market analysis, the study of potential competitors, the marketing and sales plan, the operations and the financial plan.

Survey: Kelly and Léa realized together the survey we shared, asking questions about synthetic biology and trying to gather opinions about our project. They elaborated two paths with different questions, drafted the explanations in order to the survey to be educational and analyze the outcomes.
Events: Alice, Antoine and Samuel organized the Parisian meetup, they contacted and found the different professionals we had for the round tables. Antoine and Sarah worked to attend to the Fete de la Science (Science Fair) and realized the different posters and animations in order to popularize the synthetic biology, the biology and our project for children.
Safety: Alice, Emma, Gabriela, Léa and Manon realized the safety part. Aymen, Emma and Jonathan made the voices for the video explaining in simple way how the NeuronArch kill-switch works.
Law / Ethics: As law students, Emma and Kelly were in charge of the legal aspect of our project, including confidentiality and image rights, legal researches and the drafting of a brief on the regulation of medical device in Europe and France, as well as ethics-related reflections and meetings.

Each member of the team contributed to the presentations and posters we did along the year.