Study:

Bachelor in Life Sciences and Technologies

Origin:

Switzerland

Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.

Study:

Bachelor in Life Sciences and Technologies

Origin:

France

Role:

When in the lab, I work on the vaccine part of our project. This means mainly transforming bacteria and expressing proteins cell-free, which is crazy when you think about the fact that I hold a pipet in my hands for the 1st time this summer! Graphic designer of the team, I spend my remaining time drawing on paper as well as on my computer for our poster and the visual identity of our project

Fun fact:

We all wish each other "happy meal" before eating because of (or thanks to) my English translated literally from French :P.

Study:

Master in Bioengineering

Origin:

Italy

Role:

I am mostly working on the miRNA part. This means designing the right dumbbell probes and gRNAs, testing them on the online softwares and praying that the good results on the modelling will be validated when I am struggling with them in the lab.

Fun fact:

I have a twin brother who’s studying at ETH in Zürich and most of my teammates don’t know it. Unfortunately he’s not participating into iGEM, it would have been nice to prank them at the Giant Jamboree.

Study:

Bachelor in Life Sciences and Technologies

Origin:

France

Role:

Financial manager and responsible of the detection of miRNAs

Fun fact:

I’m in a huge competition against my dear teammate Théophile for the making of the worst electrophoresis gel ever.

Study:

Master in Chemistry

Origin:

Switzerland/Germany

Role:

Design plasmid assemblies and parts as well as assembling and expressing the encapsulin-antigen complex with the help of Theophile, Moustafa , Laurine and Vio. Also perform different measurement techniques used for nanoparticles as well as purification methods.

Fun fact:

I love the smell of Ethidium Bromide in the morning. Persists on a diet consisting mainly of müesli, chocolate and coffee as well as the occasional dank science meme.

Study:

Bachelor in Life Sciences and Technologies

Origin:

France

Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.

Study:

Bachelor in Life Sciences and Technologies

Origin:

France

Role:

In the lab I mainly work on the vaccine part of the project. This means cloning, modifying plasmids and sometimes growing cells which is fun. Outside of the lab I pretend I’m busy working on the website so people will leave me alone.

Fun fact:

The hardest part of the project so far was to open the door of the incubator