Mediterranean meet up

Collaborations

Parisian meet up

Water

Postcards Exchange Program

Language Project

Skype Sessions

Tecnológico de Monterrey

A first contact with the Mexican team was over Skype. They are going after water pollution, a critical environmental problem affecting megadiverse ecosystems and many communities close to the natural and polluted water sources. To help, we provided them with water samples from all over France so they can analyze them with several techniques in order to make a valuable overview.

For their end of the deal, the team agreed to help us in filling out a survey in Mexico regarding the use of GMOs and Beauveria bassiana to fight bed bugs infestations in their homes.

Postcard exchange program

By team Düsseldorf

For the second year in a row, we took part in the postcard exchange program organized by team Düsseldorf next to 39 other teams from all over the world. Each team should come up with a postcard design and send 100 copies to the organizing team so they can equally distribute them. Representing our home cities, describing our projects and coming up with creative designs: an all-in-all interesting experience and iGEM aspect.

Looking forward to meeting all the teams in Boston.

Language project

The Chinese team OUC-China created a comic book where it describes microbiology aspects to the non-scientific community. They wanted to translate it into several kinds of languages in order to popularize synthetic biology and they proposed us to translate the book into our native language (French). So we jumped on board this interesting educational project, where the team sent us the English script of the comic book and we translated it into French. Translating this comic book was very rewarding: see how the members of the Chinese team explains notions of biology judiciously with an electric circuit or even having to discover notions that we didn't know before.

We would have liked to go much further in this collaboration as for example to use this comic books in interventions with the public, but we couldn't for lack of time, but if we could, we would have done it without hesitation.

In addition, on the side of the OUC-China team, the comic strip in french version was printed, and some french brochures were distributed in local schools and they explained the importance of this collaboration through the diversity of languages.

We were more than happy to take part in one of the largest educational worldwide collaborations.

virtual connection

Throughout our adventure iGEM we had the opportunity to interact with various teams. These exchanges were extremely beneficial for us because besides the fact that we were able to discuss our projects and what we wanted to do, we were able to help each other on the functioning of a team and on all points. essential to the smooth running of our project. We had the opportunity to discuss videoconferencing with two teams working on distinct projects. First we talked with the team Bielefield who were trying to find a way to recycle the metal. This team explained to us how their research was going and how their team was involved in the wet lab. This allowed us to reflect on the organization of our team and the role of everyone in our project. We then exchanged with the Team Leiden who works on the stress of bacteria. This time we were able to discuss the human practices part we told them all the events we had done and those that remained to come and we were able to discuss the vision of each team on the importance of human practices and how we wanted to integrate it into our project.