The Breaking bugs project idea

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

Funding

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

Wet lab

Biobrick design, assembly, and standardization

For three months, the experiments were conducted by Emeline LEMARIE, Quentin PIPPO, Sara 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).
Laeticia HOUOT (Secondary PI) helped us with primers designs.
Valerie PRIMA (Advisor) helped us with debugging a lot of our experiments.
Julia BARTOLI (HPLC operator) taught us how to use the HPLC system to complete our measurements.

Modeling

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

Human Practices

Celine COLIN, Sophie MAZZOLI, Samuel CARIEN, and Arnaud DRUISSI conducted the survey study.

Yorgo EL MOUBAYED, Myriam MOUSSA, Celine COLIN, Sophie MAZZOLI and Norhimane CHABANE represented our team at the "Souk des Sciences" in Marseille.

... represented our team at the "Forum des biotechnologies" at Polytech Marseille.

... represented our team at the "Nuit des chercheurs" gathering.

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.

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

Mediterranean Meetup

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

Running social media accounts

Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter posts were created by Yorgo EL MOUBAYED.
LinkedIn posts and articles were created by Caroline COTTANCEAU.

Wiki freeze

Most of the team took part in the design and creation of the wiki, with the precious help of our advisor Francois MORLET.

Art, Poster, and Talk

The whole team helped with creating 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.

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank our primary PI, Pr. James STURGIS. Because of his constant support and belief in the youth, the Breaking bugs project saw the light.