Our Team

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Students

This year's team is composed of nine students from the engineering school INSA Toulouse and the University Paul Sabatier. Now is time to meet the pack, as we call ourselves!

Amandine Verdier

Biochemical engineering student at INSA Toulouse
Entrepreneurship leader

Amandine looks like a cinnamon roll and is actually a cinnamon roll, that is all you need to know about her. She can fail her transformations or use the wrong competent cells and she will still look like a cute child. However, she seems to find it hard to arrive at the lab before 9 AM (no one is perfect, right?).

Angeline Pelus

Biochemical engineering student at INSA Toulouse
Treasurer

As our treasurer, Angeline's favourite sentence is "No, we can't do that, it is too expensive". But the rest of the time, she is lovely, and it is thanks to her dedication that we got everything we needed. She is a teaser so do not worry if she says something mean to you, there is a good 90% chance she is just joking.

Sirius

Good Boy

Named after the brightest star in the Earth's night sky, Sirius is the most affectionate of our dogs, some people may say it is too much sometimes. Once he finds someone to his liking, he will follow him/her everywhere and will always be under their feet. Can you see that type of dogs who follow you everywhere, even in the bathroom, and stares at you until you have finished what you are doing? That is Sirius.

Callum Burnard

Bioinformatics and systems biology student at Université Paul Sabatier
Modelling leader

Cal's hair is his most famous feature, just like for queen Elisabeth II's hat, bets are on for guessing what will be the colour of his hair at the Giant Jamboree. He is usually very calm and quiet which is helpful when everyone is arguing, but don't get him started on metal music and Magic card game or he won't stop talking. One thing you should know is that he is English, so obviously he eats weird stuffs.

Orthos

Good Boy

Named after the guardian of Geryon's cattle, Orthos is the opposite of his brother Cerberus: he is super lazy and going for a walk always looks like a torture to him. However, his shepherd nature kicks in sometimes and once he finds something to guard, he won't let it go.

Gaëlle Bordes

Biochemical engineering student at INSA Toulouse
Communication, organisation and collaborations leader

Gaëlle is the easiest to make fun of; she is super clumsy, and it will take her a good five minutes before realising you are talking to her (we are still trying to figure out what is happening in her head to be this disconnected from reality). She is the favourite snack of Toulouse's mosquitoes and that makes her very angry all the time.

Jean Delhomme

Biochemical engineering student at INSA Toulouse
Human practices leader

Every year, one of the students goes through a major hair change. This year, it was Jean who went from looking like Jon Snow to shaving his head. He loves cookies and always asks if we can buy some for the meetings. Also, naps are important so don't even think about stopping him from napping after lunch.

Julien Pérochon

Biochemistry, molecular biology and microbiology student at Université Paul Sabatier
Deputy head of entrepreneurship

Julien is the youngest of the team, but you can always count on him and his skills in biochemistry. He always makes jokes, they are not always funny, but at least he is trying to brighten up the mood. The rest of the team will forever be grateful to him for finishing the clonings we have been unsuccessfully trying to do for weeks.

Marion Toanen

Biochemistry, molecular biology and microbiology student at Université Paul Sabatier
Deputy head of human practices

Marion is our second human practicer and she sure has a talent with children (she might be the only one in the team) which was very helpful for our events in primary schools. She is a lifeguard so our days in the lab were not numbered. You can notice her coming a mile away by how loud she talks.

Yohann Charreire‑‑Kirbach

Computer science and network engineering student at INSA Toulouse
Wiki leader

Yohann is our mysterious dark-haired informatician; he never speaks unless he wants to pressure us to write our wiki pages. He is the only one in the team who cooks his own meals and for the rest of us who live on pastas, that is impressive. However, Yohann is still working on improving his smile for the pictures.

Younes Bouchiba

Bioinformatics and systems biology student at Université Paul Sabatier
Team & Wet lab leader

Rumor has it that Younes hasn’t slept since the creation of the team on the 1st of February… He is your typical “I want to do every aspect of the project” guy but as long as the job is done, we leave him be. His happiness is directly correlated to his proximity with our treasurer. As our wet lab leader, his skills came in handy when it was time to design our project and our experimentations.

Cerberus

Good Boy

Named after the guardian of the gates of the Underworld, Cerberus is the coolest of them all, truth be said. But he is also quite stupid (in a cute and funny way); he seems to have trouble taking decisions which results in him looking completely lost or tripping over himself.

Supervisors

What will be a pack without their alphas to lead them?

Camille Wagner

Organisms, populations and ecosystems biology student at Université Paul Sabatier

Camille might be the most organised of our advisors, she never goes anywhere without her notebooks (yes, she has not one but several notebooks). She is our official photographer and that is thanks to her that our team photos are not the worse. She is our non-biological mom and very dedicated to our project. She was of great help with the design of our logo (if she hadn't been with us, the logo wouldn't have looked like anything at all).

Anthony Henras

CNRS researcher scientist

His research interests focus on the study of ribosome biogenesis in eukaryotes, using mainly yeast and human cell as model organisms. He is our Mr. Happy, always smiling and congratulating us even when things are not working in the lab ("Your cloning failed? That's great big smile"). He is also a master in the art of winking but his most impressive and appreciated skill among the team is that he uses his wedding ring to open bottles of beer; if that doesn't make him look cool to you, we don't know what does.

Brice Enjalbert

Researcher in biosystems and process engineering

His research works aim to unravel how microorganisms adapt to fluctuations in their environment. He explored the physiology and mechanisms of adaptation of Gram positive and negative bacteria as well as pathogenic and commensal yeasts. Being an instructor from the first day of the iGEM Toulouse team is not as easy as it seems, and he likes to relax by pressuring his dear iGEM students. Brice is made of 100% pessimism and even though his remarks are hard to take, his experience in the iGEM competition is very valuable.

Cédric Montanier

INRA researcher scientist

Cedric works on the relationship between synergism and modularity in enzymes involved in deconstruction of polysaccharides from plant cell wall. He is especially interested in understanding how spatial proximity and modularity within enzymes impacts hydrolysis of such complex polysaccharides.

Marie-Pierre Escudié

Research engineer at Institut Gaston Berger (INSA Lyon)

She has a PhD in political science and she is now studying how politics, and ethics of engineers shape science and science and technology. She is also an interdisciplinary teacher in the field of science and technology studies, which makes her our lighthouse in the sea of Human practices.

Matthieu Guionnet

CNRS researcher scientist

Matthieu is our master in the dark arts of informatics. He spends most of his time helping the platforms GeT-Biopuces and Métatoul-Réseaux of the LISBP in their IT development., but when he is not working on this, he is creating a fake hidden Wiki so we can experiment on it without anyone seeing us fail.

Pierre Millard

INRA researcher scientist

He uses experimental and computational tools to understand the organisation, functioning and regulation of natural and synthetic metabolic systems at the cellular level. He uses his knowledge to understand the role of metabolism in the adaptation of Escherichia coli to its environment, and to design robust and efficient strains as cell factories for innovative and original biotechnological applications. There was not a meeting without him eating a French pastry called chocolate "religieuse" and he is the only one who brings a proper meal every time.

Régis Fauré

CNRS researcher scientist

He works on the design and molecular study of bio-inspired evolved and/or artificial enzymatic catalysts. He was of great help for the chemistry aspect of our project and he introduced us to the fantastic world of unnatural amino acids. But be careful, this world should be entered with caution. If you want to order reactants, you will have to compare the cost to the price of cocaine (as long as the cost is inferior you can order what you want but if it isn't, be sure to have prepared a good argumentation).

Sophie Barbe

Researcher in computational biology

Her skills make her our modelling goddess. Her research interests are focused on the study of the structure-dynamics-function relationships of proteins as well as on the development of new computational methods for the exploration of protein functional dynamics and protein design. Thanks to her wonderful 3D-glasses, we were able to see and pet our Cerberus.

Stéphanie Heux

Researcher in microbial system and synthetic biology

She tries to understand the organization and functioning of natural and synthetic metabolic networks at the cellular level using metabolomics and fluxomics. She then uses this knowledge to design and optimize new synthetic metabolic pathways.

Yves Romeo

Lecturer in genetics at Université Paul Sabatier

His main interest is to understand how intracellular signalling pathways regulate cell growth and proliferation. He used to make easy listening electronic music, we are still trying to find a way to listen to his songs...