The Breaking bugs project idea

For almost two months, the whole team brainstormed several ideas. The whole process came down to the current project.

Funding

The project's funding came from the work of Caroline COTTANCEAU, with the help of Marie REINAUD-LEREY, Hakim MEDJOUEL, Myriam KAOU, Manon ALEXANDRE and Nicolas CHAUMON under the supervision of Marcel GIANSILY (Instructor), Sophie LAPORTE (Advisor), and Pr. James STURGIS (Primary PI).

Caroline COTTANCEAU, leader of the financial pole of the team, managed to manage all the managerial supervision of partnerships (overview of partnerships and sponsorships goals, market research, benchmarking, realisation of partnership contact and contracts, commission representation, budget management).
Marie REINAUD-LEREY has done incredible work in building partnerships abroad, under Caroline COTTANCEAU 's supervision. She represented the project in committee and managed the budget.
Hakim MEDJOUEL was very involved in the realization of event-oriented partnerships with the help of Caroline COTTANCEAU. The team was able to attend these many scientific mediation events thanks to them.
Myriam KAOU did an incredible job finding the calls for projects by linking with the problem of bed bugs. She worked tirelessly so that the whole team was overflowing with her brilliant findings.
Nicolas CHAUMON specialized himself in contacting companies with laboratory equipment. Supervised by Caroline COTTANCEAU.
The crowdfunding was lunched by Manon ALEXANDRE under Caroline COTTANCEAU 's supervision.

Caroline COTTANCEAU has, in secret, applied for the project in a contest launched by the city of Marseille. The team is pleased to announce its 4th place in the "Student Initiatives" award for the first time !

Wet lab

Biobrick design, assembly, and standardization

For three months, the experiments were conducted by Emeline LEMARIE, Quentin PIPPO, Sarah SHARKAOUI, Celia GUERIN, Yorgo EL MOUBAYED, and Dimitri POPOFF. The first two weeks, the team was trained by Gauthier DANGLA-PELISSIER (Instructor).

Interlab study

All of the interlab measurements were conducted by Yorgo EL MOUBAYED.
For the flow cytometry measurements, Gael BRASSEUR (Flow cytometer operator) helped with collecting the data.

LISM staff members support

All the experiments were done under the supervision of Gauthier DANGLA-PELISSIER (Instructor) and Pr. James STURGIS (Primary PI).
Leticia HOUOT (Secondary PI) helped us with primers designs.
Valerie PRIMA (Advisor) helped us with debugging some of our experiments.
Julia BARTOLI (HPLC operator) taught us how to use the HPLC system to complete our measurements.
Bastien SERRANO (Project engineer) helped us with all proteomics experiments.
Maialen CHABALIER (Biosafety officer and technician) ran the lab security and biosafety workshop.

Modeling

Modeling and simulations were done by Pr. James STURGIS, Francois MORLET (Advisor), Marlon SIDORE (Instructor), Arnaud DRIUSSI, and Antonin GARDAIS, in collaboration with the wet lab team.

Human Practices

Education & Public engagement

Yorgo EL MOUBAYED, Myriam MOUSSA, and Sophie MAZZOLI represented our team at the Science market.

Myriam MOUSSA and Sophie MAZZOLI represented our team at the European researchers night.

Marie REINAUD-LEREY, Antonin GARDAIS, and Nicolas CHAUMON represented our team at the biotechnology forum.

Yorgo EL MOUBAYED, Hakim MEDJOUEL, and Emeline LEMARIE represented our team at the social housing union convention.

Myriam MOUSSA, Clemence NGO, Hakim MEDJOUEL, Nicolas CHAUMON, Laurianne COURBET, Jeremy CARTALAS (Advisor), Arnaud DRUISSI, and Manon ALEXANDRE represented our team at the science festival.

Survey study & interviews

Sophie MAZZOLI and Arnaud DRUISSI conducted the survey study with the huge help of a volunteer and true statistician of the team, Samuel CARIEN who unfortunately had to leave the competition before the end.

Laurianne COURBET contacted Mr. Jean-Michel BERENGER. The interview was conducted by Laurianne COURBET, Yorgo EL MOUBAYED, and Sarah SHARKAOUI at the IHU-MI in Marseille.

Caroline COTTANCEAU contacted Mr. Jean-Louis MONCLER to help her train Marie REINAUD-LEREY, Hakim MEDJOUEL, Nicolas CHAUMON and Yorgo EL MOUBAYED in forming partnerships.

Caroline COTTANCEAU contacted Mr. Olivier GREMAUD for an interview. Then the society Cynoscan has become an official support and partner in the fight against bedbugs.

Caroline COTTANCEAU contacted Mr. Laurent FOURAGE for an interview to understand the work of specialists in the prevention of infestations by bed bugs.

Collaborations

Yorgo EL MOUBAYED was in charge of the collaboration with the Mexican team Tecnológico de Monterrey.
The water samples were collected by most of the team members and prepared by Gauthier DANGLA-PELISSIER.

Clemence NGO and Arnaud DRUISSI translated the comic book for the OUC-China team, under the supervision of Camille GARCIA

Yorgo EL MOUBAYED designed the postcard for the postcard exchange program with team Düsseldorf

Mediterranean Meetup

Sophie MAZZOLI, Myriam MOUSSA, Laurianne COURBET, Nicolas CHAUMON, and Yorgo EL MOUBAYED were the main organizers of the event.

Wiki editing

The whole team took part in the design and creation of the wiki.

Talks and presentations

The wet lab team created the posters and presentations for different occasions.
Postcard, business card, and flyer designs were done using Canva.
Media editing was done using Shutterstockand Adobe Photoshop.

Running social media accounts

Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter posts were created by Yorgo EL MOUBAYED.
LinkedIn posts and articles were created by Caroline COTTANCEAU.
French blog articles were created/written weekly by Caroline COTTANCEAU, helped by the ideas of the whole team.

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank our primary PI, Pr. James STURGIS. Because of his constant support, the breaking bugs project saw the light of day.