We would like to extend our sincerest gratitude to all our sponsors for their generous support, trust, and dedication towards us. We are eternally grateful for having faith in us and supporting us. Thanks from bottom of our heart to make “STAR CORES” an accomplishment.

Our iGEM team is kindly hosted in the CRI (Interdisciplinary Research Center) located in the Faculté de médecine Paris Descartes at the center of Paris. In the heart of one of Paris’ biggest hospitals, the CRI hosts interdisciplinary undergraduate (LFdV), Master (AIV); devoted also to systems and synthetic biology!) as well as a PhD program (FdV). This center is directed by François Taddei and Ariel Lindner.

For the Laboratory’s facilities, we are kindly hosted by the CRI/INSERM U1001 lab, that lent us benches, microscopes and others facilities. We thank all the members of the INSERM U1001 for their kind help and that they shared not only their equipment but also their experience with us. We want to name Béatrice Herbin and Marie-Florence Bredèche for their support. We would like to give a special thank Chantal Lotton, the lab manager, for her advices on the bench, her warm words, her organization skills, her introductions, for being there for us any time and that she ensured that we worked safely.

We want to thank :

Olivier Borkowski, Marc Baaden, Marc Santolini, Ali Ladram, David Tareste, Antoine Tally,

Mourdjen Bari, Fabrice Jouvenot, Amodsen Chotia,

Jean-Yves Madec, Benoit Quéro, Paul Pfister,

Pauline Salamiden, Francois-Xavier De Seze,

Philippe Llerena, Antoine Pericchi,

Lionel Cavicchioli, Stéphane Saulnier,

Pleen, Elie Thiodet,

Guillaume Levrier

Helene Steiner, Thomas Meany

Elodie Coquillat

Fondation Bettencourt Schueller

We would like to give special thanks to the Fondation Bettencourt Schueller for their generous and continuous support since 2007 which helped us develop this project successfully.

Inserm and CRI (Centre de recherche interdisciplinary)

We would also like to thank CRI and Inserm for hosting iGem team and providing the laboratory facilities along with the wide network of researchers who shared their experience with us.

We are grateful to you, for supporting our project with myTXTL sigma70TM kit to express our StarCores.

Bioneer

We would like to thank Bioneer, for collaborating with our team and helping us express our StarCores via their ExiProgenTM cell free expression system.