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PROJECT

PARTS

HUMAN PRACTICES

Education & Engagement

Collaborations

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Perspectives

The designing our project required a holistic approach. We had to consider not only the efficiency, the biosafety and security of our plan, but its societal impact as well. Thus, human practices was at the heart of our project. In only eight months of work, we have built a concrete idea of a trap to get rid of these worldwide vermins (bed bugs) that meets with the public desires and needs. However, we are still developing a prototype and the design requires optimization.

To this end, we have already begun to carry out tests, thanks to one of our collaborators, Crous Aix-Marseille Avignon. They had several apartments that were infested with bed bugs, and that have not been treated yet. For the moment, we only have tested the first version of our trap for a week. It is a bit too short period of time to have significant results. Beauveria bassiana requires about ten days to be fully effective. In the immediate, we must go further with these experiments.

Moreover, we chose to use biosynthesized pheromones (cost efficient) rather than the chemically produced ones. Living organisms represent a real potential and allow the massive production of pheromone cocktails and enzyme mix in one go. But for now, we have produced each component in different bacteria strains to test their activity. In a more medium-term perspective, we should optimize the pheromone production by combining all synthesis pathways of all the pheromones in one single bacteria.

Once these improvements are completed, the culmination of the project will be to commercialize our trap in the longer term. In order to ensure this, we have partnered with two companies specialized in vermin treatment which are :

The specialist of pest control, Rentokil. They are already working on bed bugs and they contacted us after seeing one of our press article to collaborate on our mutual enemy.
CSTB (Technical Building Science Center) that we met at the social housing union convention. They are creating a detection technique for bed bugs. This would potentially have a 100 percent efficiency. Our project has drawn their attention because it only focuses on the next step of bed bugs elimination. Our trap is complementary to their work, that is why they have offered us a collaboration. Thus we will have the opportunity to develop and upgrade our trap with them.

Such collaborations will be crucial for a student team like us to bring our idea to the market.

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-Designing our project required to have a holistic approach. We had to considered not only the efficacy, the safety and the security of our concept but also its societal impact. Thus, human practices have been the heart and the conductor. In only eight months of work, we have built a concrete idea of trap to get rid of these worldwide vermin, bed bugs, that complies with societal desires and needs. However, we are still at a prototype stage that requires to be optimized.
+[[File:T--Aix-Marseille--perspectives2.png|center]]
-To this end, we have already begun to carry out tests thanks to one of our collaborators, [http://www.crous-aix-marseille.fr/ Crous Aix Marseille Avignon]. They have few apartments that are infested with bed bugs and that has not been treated yet. For the moment, we only have tested our trap for a week. It is not optimal in terms of reproducibility but also because the fungus that we use, ''Beauveria bassiana'', requires a minimum of ten days to be fully effective. In a very '''short-term''', we must go on with these experiments.
+The designing our project required a holistic approach. We had to consider not only the efficiency, the biosafety and security of our plan, but its societal impact as well. Thus, human practices was at the heart of our project. In only eight months of work, we have built a concrete idea of a trap to get rid of these worldwide vermins (bed bugs) that meets with the public desires and needs. However, we are still developing a prototype and the design requires optimization.
-Moreover, we chose to use a biological synthesis pathway to produce pheromones rather than a chemical one for a question of profitability. Living organisms represent a real potential and allow to produce a pheromone cocktail in one shift. But for now, we had produced each feedstock in different bacteria to test their activity.  In a '''medium-term perspective''', we have to optimize the pheromone production by combining all synthesis pathway (in operon) of all pheromone in one single bacteria.
+To this end, we have already begun to carry out tests, thanks to one of our collaborators, [http://www.crous-aix-marseille.fr/ Crous Aix-Marseille Avignon]. They had several apartments that were infested with bed bugs, and that have not been treated yet. For the moment, we only have tested the first version of our trap for a week. It is a bit too short period of time to have significant results. ''Beauveria bassiana'' requires about ten days to be fully effective. In the immediate, we must go further with these experiments.
-Once these improvements completed, the culmination of the project will be to commercialize our trap. In order to ensure this, we currently have a partnership with a specialist of extermination of “pests”, [https://contact.rentokil.fr/fr-deratisation-v3/?utm_term=rentokil&gclid=CjwKCAjwu5veBRBBEiwAFTqDwYY8qKmbHDOWKutmcTcQWmW9qgyysHT0DWQj_fK3BRepTRwrgH8MIBoCjJQQAvD_BwE Rentokil]. They are already working on bed bugs and they contacted us after seeing one of our press article to collaborate on our mutual acquaintance. Such collaboration will be crucial for a student team like us to bring our idea to market in the '''longer term'''.
+Moreover, we chose to use biosynthesized pheromones (cost efficient) rather than the chemically produced ones. Living organisms represent a real potential and allow the massive production of pheromone cocktails and enzyme mix in one go. But for now, we have produced each component in different bacteria strains to test their activity.  In a more '''medium-term perspective''', we should optimize the pheromone production by combining all synthesis pathways of all the pheromones in one single bacteria.
-[[File:T--Aix-Marseille--perspectives.png]]
+Once these improvements are completed, the culmination of the project will be to commercialize our trap in the '''longer term'''.
+In order to ensure this, we have partnered with two companies specialized in vermin treatment which are :
+#The specialist of pest control, [https://www.rentokil.com/ Rentokil]. They are already working on bed bugs and they contacted us after seeing one of our press article to collaborate on our mutual enemy.<br>
+#[http://www.cstb.fr/en/ CSTB] ('''T'''echnical '''B'''uilding '''S'''cience '''C'''enter) that we met at the [https://2018.igem.org/Team:Aix-Marseille/SHUC social housing union convention]. They are creating a detection technique for bed bugs. This would potentially have a 100 percent efficiency. Our project has drawn their attention because it only focuses on the next step of bed bugs elimination. Our trap is complementary to their work, that is why they have offered us a collaboration. Thus we will have the opportunity to develop and upgrade our trap with them.
+'''Such collaborations will be crucial for a student team like us to bring our idea to the market.'''
+[[File:T--Aix-Marseille--perspectives.png|800px|center]]